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Director: William Nigh. Also starred Matty Fain, Milburn Stone & Grace Durkin. Plot: A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals...
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Also starred Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft & John Laurie. Plot: A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent, and is finding himself in one jam after another.
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Director: Lloyd Bacon. Also starred Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee & Una Merkel. Plot: A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star...
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Director: Aubrey Scotto. Also starred Sterling Holloway, Edgar Kennedy & Purnell Pratt. Plot: A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. If he can't do it, he gets nothing.
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Director: James P. Hogan. Also starred Susan Hayward, John Hartley & Joyce Matthews. Plot: A show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for every touchdown scored.
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Director: Karl Grune. Also starred Esme Percy, John Stuart & Charles Carson. Plot: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid (Kortner) faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.
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Director: D.W.Griffith. Also starred Otto Hoffman, Walter Huston & Edgar Dearing. Plot: An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
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Director: George B. Seitz. Also starred Stuart Erwin, Ann Loring & Louis Hayward
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Director: Wesley Ruggles. Also starred Holmes Herbert, Catherine Doucet & Astrid Allwyn. Plot: A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
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Director: William Clemens. Also starred Sheila Bromley, Addison Richards & Hugh McConnell. Plot: An insurance adjustor tangles with a big insurance-fraud gang.
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Director: Thornton Freeland. Also starred Basil Sydney, Googie Withers & J. H. Roberts. Plot: Tony Seymour (Fairbanks) and his partner, Gaby Ramarios (Rio) are a dance team who perform an Apache specialty number...
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Director: Forde Beebe & Clifford Smith. Also starred Guy Bates Post, Lon Chaney Jr., & Jackie Morrow
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Director: J. Walter Ruben. Also starred Theodore Newton, Nella Walker & Anderson Lawler. Plot: A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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Director: Tim Whelan. Also starred Arthur Margetson, Ronald Squire & Athole Stewart.
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Director: William Dieterle. Also starred Herbert Mundin, Blanche Friderici & Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Plot: Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry...
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Director: Edward Ludwig. Also starred Thomas Mitchell, Victor Kilian & John Gallaudet. Plot: Joel McCrea plays a hotshot reporter who thinks he knows everything and Jean Arthur plays an actress who puts one over on him...
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Director: Clifford Smith. Also starred Carla Laemmle, House Peters Jr., & Herschel Mayall Jr.
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Director: Archie Mayo. Also starred George Barbier, Binnie Barnes & Ernest Truex. Plot: Marco Polo (Cooper) travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter...
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Directors: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
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Director: Alfred. L. Werker
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Director: Norman Taurog. Also starred David Holt, Victor Kilian & Nana Bryant. Plot: Misadventures of a mischievous boy in 1850 Missouri.
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Director: Alfred L. Werker. Also starred Sterling Holloway, C. Henry Gordon & Isabel Jewell. Plot: Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss (Tracy) is continually in trouble with his editor.
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Director: Benjamin Stoloff
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Director: Gregory La Cava. Also starred Fay Wray, Vince Bennett & Jessie Ralph. Plot: The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence (Bennett) despite the duke.
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Director: Edwin L. Marin. Also starred Phillip Reed, Onslow Stevens & Dorothy Burgess. Plot: When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Also starred Billie Burke, Harvey Stephens & Katherine Alexander. Plot: Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch (Gable) falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood (Bennett) but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences.
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Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Also starred Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia & Jessie Ralph. Plot: Selma (Landi) asks Nick (Powell) to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and blackmailing a local criminal. David Graham (Stewart) claims he paid the missing husband to get rid of a former girlfriend. Will Nick locate him?
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Director: Frank Borzage. Also starred William Collier Sr., Josephine Hull & William Pawley
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Director: George Archainbaud. Also starred Sam Godfrey, Lucien Prival & Mischa Auer
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Director: Frank Lloyd. Also starred Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan & Adrian Morris
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Director: Edward Ludwig. Also starred may Robson, David Holt & Ralph Forbes
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Director: Philip Moeller. Also starred Helen Westley, Laura Hope Crews & Julie Haydon. Plot: An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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Director: Clarence Brown. Also starred Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington & Mickey Rooney. Plot: Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
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Director: Phil Whitman. Also starred Berton Churchill, Matty Kemp & Otis Harlan. Plot: An airplane pilot and a criminal battle for the woman they love.
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Director: Albert S. Rogell. Also starred Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Allen & Billie Seward. Plot: A mysterious ray that immobilizes all motors and engines threatens the security of the country.
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Director: John Ford. Also starred Slim Summerville, Lilian Bond & Russell Hopton. Plot: Level headed Mike Miller (Bellamy) runs Desert Airport, an air mail base full of daring young pilots risking their lives to get the mail through-regardless of the weather.
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Director: Ray Taylor. Also starred Frank Hagney, Sidney Bracey & Nelson McDowell. Plot: A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
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Director: Stuart Paton. Also starred Charles Delaney, Arthur Thalasso & Tom London. Plot: The U.S. Air Patrol is fighting alien-smuggling along the USA-Mexico border, and U.S. Army Air Corps buddies Jerry Doyle (Harlan) and Andy Conroy (Delaney) are among the pilots on this assignment. One of them is shot down by the smuggling-gang, and the other goes after the gang with vengeance.
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Director: William C. McGann. Also starred Gordon Oliver, Dick Purcell & Ben Welden. Plot: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Director: John G. Adolfi. Also starred June Collyer, Ralf Harolde & Montagu Love. Plot: With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington (Mowbray) took Colonel Hamilton (Arliss) with him into the newly formed government...
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Directors: Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev
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Director: Henry King. Also starred Ethel Merman, Jack Haley & Jean Hersholt. Plot: This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music. Won Oscar
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Director: W. P. Kellino. Also starred Polly Ward, Humberston Wright & Annie Esmond.
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Director: Marcel Varnel -- Also starred Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton & Jimmy Gold
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Director: John Cromwell. Also starred Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale & Gene Lockhart. Plot: Beautiful Gaby (Lamarr) meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
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Director: Lloyd Bacon & Michael Curtiz. Also starred Adrienne Dore, Lucille La Verne & Oscar Apfel. Plot: Karl (Barthelmess) is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan (Foster) is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine...
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Director: George Archainbaud. Also starred John Ince, Daisy Belmore & Betty Pierce
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Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred Katharine Alexander, Chick Chandler & Juanita Quigley. Plot: A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Director: David Butler. Also starred June Lang, Gypsy Rose Lee & Raymond Scott. Plot: A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan...
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Director: Leslie S. Hiscott. Also starred J. H. Roberts, John Deverell & Ronald Ward
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Director: Ray Enright. Also starred Roscoe Karns, William Frawley & Eddie Shubert. Plot: Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell (Brown) tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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Director: George Stevens. Also starred Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson & Ann Shoemaker. Plot: The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America.
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Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Also starred Ford Sterling, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher & Raymond Hatton. Plot: On a boring winter afternoon, Alice (Henry)dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare...
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Director: Russell Mack. Also starred James Gleason, John Darrow & Preston Foster. Plot: The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Director: William A. Seiter. Also starred Brian Donlevy, Wilfrid Lawson & John F. Hamilton. Plot: In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's (Sanders) adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's (Donlevy) selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit.
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Director: Frank Tuttle. Also starred Katherine DeMille, Eugene Pallette & Arnold Korff. Plot: Movie star changes places with a king who looks exactly like him, causing complications for all concerned.
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Director: George Fitzmaurice. Also starred Herbert Mundin, Henry Stevenson & Walter Byron
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Director: James Flood. Also starred Helen Mack, Nella Walker & William Collier Sr. Plot: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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Director: James W. Horne. Also starred Harry Stockwell, Franklin Pangborn & James Finlayson. Plot: Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being jinxed.
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Director: Lewis Milestone. From the book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. The original title was “Im Westen nichts Neues” which literally translated means “Nothing New In the West”.
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Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred Peter Lind Hayes, Betty Moran & John Arledge. Plot: When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts...
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Director: William Cameron Menzies. Also starred Alan Dinehart, Mary Gordon & Tempe Pigott. Plot: Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna (Heming), traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail...
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Director: Sidney Lanfield. Also starred Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari & Binnie Barnes
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Director: John G. Blystone. Also starred William Pawley, Lucille Powers & David Landau
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Director: Thornton Freeland. Also starred Basil Sydney, Hugh Williams & Irene Browne
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Director: Anatole Litvak. Also starred Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp & Gale Page. Plot: Dr. Clitterhouse (Robinson) is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. His interest is so deep that he finds the best way to observe criminals in action is to become one himself!
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Director: Alexander Hall. Also starred Ruth Donnelly, Edward Brophy & Donald MacBride. Plot: Kenny Williams (Douglas), a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll (Blondell), the Mayor's secretary...
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Director: Alfred Zeisler. Also starred Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion & John Turnbull. Plot: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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Director: Sam Taylor. Also starred Ray Milland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Arnold Korff & Ferdinand Munier. Plot: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest...
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Director: Kurt Neumann. Also starred William Henry, Broderick Crawford & John Hartley
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Director: Frank Capra. Also starred Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon & Arthur Hoyt. Plot: It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson (Huston) to merge with New York Trust and resign...
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