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    Good Dame

    In this drama, two carneys, a card-sharp, and a peep-show performer, find themselves booted out of...

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    Good Morning, Judge

    This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of...

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    L'Ingiusta Condanna (1952)

    In this drama, set in Italy during 1889, a young doctor meets and falls for the daughter of a...

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    The Island of Procida

    The Italian Island of Procida is set in a remote penal colony. Claudio Gora stars as Paul, a...

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    Jail House Blues

    In this musical, a convict finds his life calling after a prison show is staged and he discovers a...

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    Jeepers Creepers (1939)

    Sentenced to toil on a family's (Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, Elviry) land, a greedy man discovers...

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    John Smith

    Eugene O'Brien -- who was a better co-star for the likes of Norma Talmadge than he was a star in his...

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    The Kentuckians

    Author John Fox was known for his tales of the Blue Grass State and its mountain people. This...

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    The Lady from Hell

    One of D.W. Griffith's most luminous stars, Blanche Sweet's career was in the doldrums when she...

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    Laugh Pagliacci

    In this operatic film, a traveling clown, convicted of killing his wife and lover, serves his...

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    Teresa Confalonieri

    Hot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed...

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    The Lucky Stiff

    At the last possible moment, convicted murderess Anne Marie St. Claire (Dorothy Lamour) is saved...

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    Pacific Blackout

    Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of...

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    Mister 880 (1950)

    A Secret Service agent (Burt Lancaster) tracks a bogus $1 bill to a U.N. translator (Dorothy...

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    Moscow Shanghai

    In this romantic melodrama, a widowed Russian noblewoman finds her torn asunder by the 1917...

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    Mountain Justice

    A Northern lawyer (George Brent) defends a mountain nurse (Josephine Hutchinson) on trial for...

  • Nancy Steele Is Missing! picture
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    Nancy Steele Is Missing!

    Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist...

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    Nora Prentiss (1947)

    A nightclub singer (Ann Sheridan) inspires a doctor (Kent Smith) to fake his own murder, for which...

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    One Girl's Confession

    Filmmaker Hugo Haas unfolds his usual cautionary "old man-young woman" story in One Girl's...

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    Pièges

    In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire...

  • The Prisoner of Shark Island picture
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    The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

    Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) sets John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln is shot, and is sentenced...

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    Query

    Future "Doctor Who" star William Hartnell dominates the proceedings in the British drama Query. The...

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    The Royal Oak

    King Charles (Henry Victor) flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver...

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    Shopworn

    A domineering upper-class woman keeps her son (Regis Toomey) from being with the lower-class woman...

  • The Sin of Martha Queed picture
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    The Sin of Martha Queed

    Director Allan Dwan does the best he can with middling material in this routine drama. When Arnold...

  • The Spider and the Fly picture
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    The Spider and the Fly

    A police chief (Eric Portman) recruits his safecracker nemesis (Guy Rolfe) for a government job in...

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    Thunder on the Hill (1951)

    Charlotte Hastings' West End stage hit Bonaventure was adroitly translated to the American screen as...

  • We Who Are About to Die picture
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    We Who Are About to Die

    Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather,...

  • The Weak and the Wicked picture
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    The Weak and the Wicked

    Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would...