Edward G. Robinson
Birthday: 1893-12-12
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Biography: Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. Although he played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward G. Robinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Cincinnati Kid
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time mast...
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Double Indemnity
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...
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Movie Tough Guys
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s,...
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Good Neighbor Sam
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. Th...
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Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics....
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The Prize
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American nove...
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House of Strangers
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three o...
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The Stranger
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who ...
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Key Largo
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. Th...
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The Red House
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concern...
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Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...
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The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to...
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Never a Dull Moment
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until...
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship wit...
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Black Tuesday
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the e...
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Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...
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A Hole in the Head
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son....
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A Bullet for Joey
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic sc...
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Two Seconds
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...
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Tales of Manhattan
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...
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The Sea Wolf
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind....
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A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...
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Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?...
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Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly...
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The Little Giant
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a hou...
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Nightmare
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and fi...
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The Last Gangster
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has ...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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Sammy Going South
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go ...
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Five Star Final
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...
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My Geisha
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
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The Violent Men
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but th...
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The Glass Web
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As...
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Two Weeks in Another Town
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old dir...
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All My Sons
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever...
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It's a Great Feeling
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big b...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisbor...
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A Day at Santa Anita
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence ...
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Seven Thieves
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull of...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor....
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Scarlet Street
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kit...
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The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder....
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o...
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Smart Money
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events....
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Illegal
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...
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Mackenna's Gold
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups ...
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Larceny, Inc.
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d...
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Breakdowns of 1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....
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The Whole Town's Talking
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late ...
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Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Pepe
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director b...
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Silver Dollar
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty....
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Hell on Frisco Bay
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeer...
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The Man with Two Faces
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Va...
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Operation San Pietro
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and ...
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Tampico
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Kat...
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Vice Squad
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbe...
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Barbary Coast
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o...
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Tight Spot
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangste...
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The Outrage
At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss th...
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Grand Slam
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. ...
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Actors and Sin
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigge...
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Unholy Partners
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner....
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Thunder in the City
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not se...
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph...
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Big Leaguer
John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18...
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Destroyer
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to...
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the...
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The Hole in the Wall
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mys...
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train....
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I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...
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Dark Hazard
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...
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I Am the Law
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organi...
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Blackmail
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him....
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund....
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we ...
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Outside the Law
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Finger...
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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East Is West
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sa...
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The Widow from Chicago
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death....
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The Hatchet Man
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....
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Journey Together
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin....
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My Daughter Joy
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of ...
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The Blonde from Peking
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac...
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A Lady to Love
Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena e...
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A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicte...
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Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg ...
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The First Gangster and the Last Gangster
Edward G. Robinson talks to the audience about the history of gangster films and introduces his late...
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile i...
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Neither by Day Nor by Night
An American soldier is wounded in Israel and slowly begins to lose his sight while hospitalized....
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The Right Man
Film on presidential campaigns and the right to vote. Used as educational material in American clas...
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The Bright Shawl
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves....
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...
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The Night Ride
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robber...
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers f...
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Arms and the Woman
Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Operation Heartbeat
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....
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Planet of the Apes Test Reel
A make-up test to determine the feasibility of 'Planet of the Apes' (1968)....
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Polo with the Stars
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie...
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947....
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Pulp Cinema
Four dozen original coming attractions previews of classic film noir. From A-list biggies to lesser-...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...
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Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...
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From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Fe...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots....
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film....
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...
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Okay for Sound
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...
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Frank Capra's American Dream
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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Every Woman's Longing
Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a pho...
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Born a Man
An account of the rehabilitation of an electrician who is totally and permanently blinded by an acci...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...
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Moscow Strikes Back
A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army f...
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