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  • Border Patrol picture
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    Border Patrol

    Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and fellow Texas Rangers (Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby) free smuggled...

  • I Can't Escape picture
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    I Can't Escape

    Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able...

  • The Kid's Last Ride picture
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    The Kid's Last Ride

    The Range Busters ride to the rescue when crooks force a young man to reveal the whereabouts of...

  • The Man They Could Not Hang picture
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    The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)

    An executed man returns from the grave to seek revenge against the killers who framed him and sent...

  • Probation picture
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    Probation

    Sally Blane (Loretta Young's look-alike sister) plays Janet, a Manhattan socialite who is fed up...

  • They Won't Forget picture
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    They Won't Forget (1937)

    A Southern lynch mob and a district attorney (Claude Rains) say a Northern teacher (Edward Norris)...

  • The Arizona Express picture
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    The Arizona Express

    This picture was based on an old time melodrama by Lincoln J. Carter. Pauline Starke stars as...

  • The Bad One picture
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    The Bad One

    In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for...

  • The Big City picture
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    The Big City

    The Big City was perhaps the most "normal" of the Lon Chaney-Tod Browning collaborations. Minus...

  • The Big Guy picture
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    The Big Guy

    In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he...

  • The Black Angel picture
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    The Black Angel

    With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the...

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    Blackwell's Island

    A reporter (John Garfield) sends a mobster (Stanley Fields) to prison, then goes in after him posing...

  • The Boys from Syracuse picture
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    The Boys from Syracuse (1940)

    Considering that it was adapted from a Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George...

  • Broken Chains picture
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    Broken Chains

    Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul...

  • Condemned to Death picture
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    Condemned to Death

    On the surface just another quota quickie, Condemned to Death turned out to be quite a gem for those...

  • Dangerous Medicine picture
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    Dangerous Medicine

    In this suspense movie, a secretary marries her rich old boss. He suddenly dies and she finds...

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    Dangerous Years (1947)

    In this melodrama, a young juvenile delinquent convinces other teens to join his gang. The gang...

  • Dangerously Yours picture
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    Dangerously Yours

    In this romance, a detective goes undercover as a jewel thief and boards a trans-atlantic cruise...

  • Decoy picture
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    Decoy (1946)

    A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before...

  • The Devil Makes Three picture
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    The Devil Makes Three (1952)

    An Air Force captain (Gene Kelly) in postwar Germany loves a girl (Pier Angeli) used by neo-Nazis to...

  • The Devil's Pipeline picture
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    The Devil's Pipeline

    In this comedy-adventure two petroleum engineers must investigate strange reports from a Company...

  • The Earl of Chicago picture
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    The Earl of Chicago

    A Chicago bootlegger (Robert Montgomery) goes to England with his lawyer (Edward Arnold) to claim...

  • Easy Money picture
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    Easy Money

    An insurance investigator (George Lam) pursues a bored millionaire (Michelle Yeoh) after she stages...

  • Escape picture
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    Escape

    In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when...

  • Escape picture
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    Escape (1948)

    In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is...

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    Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)

    Pauline Kael once characterized the French adventure film Fanfan the Tulip as a "Louis XV western"....

  • Fine Feathers picture
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    Fine Feathers

    This drama, based on the play by Eugene Walter, begins in a rather novel way -- the two leads are...

  • Flaxy Martin picture
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    Flaxy Martin

    A mob lawyer (Zachary Scott) is framed for murder and goes to prison after dumping his gangland...

  • Full Confession picture
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    Full Confession

    A priest (Joseph Calleia) tries to get a confessed killer (Victor McLaglen) to save an innocent man...

  • Girls on Probation picture
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    Girls on Probation (1938)

    A lawyer (Ronald Reagan) falls for a shopgirl (Jane Bryan) whose co-worker gets her into trouble...