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1. The Inspector General (1949)
directed by Henry Koster
featuring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart
The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery in The Inspector General. ... More
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2. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
directed by George Seaton
featuring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest, Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart
Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken ... More
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3. Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Dean Stockwell, Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Gene Lockhart, Cecil Kellaway
This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and Dean Stockwell as his ... More
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4. A Christmas Carol (1938)
directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Terry Kilburn, Barry Mackay
For a generation of radio fans, Lionel Barrymore was the definitive Ebeneezer Scrooge. Alas, Barrymore was crippled by arthritis by the time MGM got ... More
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5. Algiers (1938)
directed by John Cromwell
featuring Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia, Gene Lockhart
This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the original film, and even ... More
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6. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
directed by John Cromwell
featuring Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart, Mary Howard, Dorothy Tree
Raymond Massey plays Abe Lincoln in this moving adaptation of Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Expanded a bit for cinematic purposes, ... More
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7. Star of Midnight (1935)
directed by Stephen R. Roberts
featuring William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Morgan
This barely-disguised but effective riff on The Thin Man (1934) stars that film's lead, William Powell, opposite Ginger Rogers instead of Myrna Loy. ... More
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8. Rhubarb (1951)
directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes
Rhubarb is an amusing, if not entirely faithful, adaptation of the H. Allen Smith novel of the same name. When Thaddeus J. Banner (Gene Lockhart), ... More
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9. A Scandal in Paris (1946)
directed by Douglas Sirk
featuring George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police during the Napoleonic era. ... More
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10. Edison, the Man (1940)
directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
In 1940, MGM turned out two films on the life of Thomas Alva Edison.The first, Young Tom Edison, starred Mickey Rooney and trotted out all the old ... More
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11. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
directed by Irving Cummings
featuring Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For years after its release, ... More
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12. Something to Sing About (1936)
directed by Victor Schertzinger
featuring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart
Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who ... More
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13. Billy the Kid (1941)
directed by David Miller
featuring Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard, Gene Lockhart
The famous outlaw rides again in this fictionalized western that chronicles Billy's turn from criminal to fine upstanding citizen. The film received ... More
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14. Sinners in Paradise (1938)
directed by James Whale
featuring Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin, Gene Lockhart
At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his films remained both ... More
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15. Juke Girl (1942)
directed by Curtis Bernhardt
featuring Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Gene Lockhart, Richard Whorf, Betty Brewer
Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line lest he find himself ... More
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16. The Strange Woman (1946)
directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
featuring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, Hillary Brooke
B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by Hedy Lamarr to helm this big ... More
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17. Blondie (1938)
directed by Frank Strayer
featuring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Gene Lockhart, Ann Doran
When Columbia Pictures secured the movie rights to Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie, the studio executives probably never imagined that the ... More
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18. South of Pago Pago (1940)
directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Gene Lockhart
Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island chieftan, young Kehane (Hall) ... More
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19. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
directed by Henry King
featuring Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart
In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward ... More
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20. Going My Way (1944)
directed by Leo McCarey
featuring Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Frank McHugh, James Brown
It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning an ... More
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21. His Girl Friday (1940)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns
The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy ... More
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22. Carousel (1956)
directed by Henry King
featuring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner, Gene Lockhart
Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on Liliom, a play by Ferenc ... More
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23. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S. ... More
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24. Mission to Moscow (1943)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Gene Lockhart, George Tobias, Eleanor Parker
More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President Roosevelt to make a film ... More
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25. Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
directed by Fritz Lang
featuring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe
Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, ... More
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