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Max Steiner
Max Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian American composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the score he composed for Gone with the Wind and for the score and theme song for the film A Summer Place.
Steiner was born Maximilian Raoul...
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King Kong
King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally...
Initial release date:
- 1933
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Screenplay by:
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Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
Initial release date:
- 1942
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,039,000 (US$)
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The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost...
Initial release date:
- 1934
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Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Produced by:
The Informer
The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922. It stars Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Una O'Connor and J.M....
Initial release date:
- 1935
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Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
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Top Hat
Top Hat is a 1935 screwball musical comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont ...
Initial release date:
- 1935
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 609,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Four Daughters
Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. It stars the Lane...
Initial release date:
- 1938
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Dark Victory
Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch.
Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree...
Initial release date:
- Apr 22, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
All This and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the novel by Rachel Field...
Initial release date:
- 1940
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Runtime:
- 141 min (84.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by...
Initial release date:
- 1954
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Produced by:
The Searchers
The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is the story of Ethan Edwards, a middle-aged Civil War veteran portrayed by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece with...
Initial release date:
- 1956
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
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One Foot in Heaven
One Foot in Heaven is a 1941 biographical film which follows the life of a minister and his family as they move from parish to parish. It stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart and Elisabeth Fraser.
The movie was adapted by...
Initial release date:
- Oct 2, 1941
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Watch on the Rhine
Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play of the same title by Lillian Helman.
In 1940, German-born engineer Kurt Muller, his American wife Sara, and...
Initial release date:
- Aug 27, 1943
Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
Produced by:
Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The...
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- 1944
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Runtime:
- 172 min (103 hs )
Produced by:
Johnny Belinda
Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film based on the play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and directed by Jean Negulesco.
The story is based on a real life...
Initial release date:
- 1948
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Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Dodge City
Dodge City is a Technicolor Western film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor. As a classic western,...
Initial release date:
- Apr 1, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Produced by:
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Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft. The film was written by Rowland Brown,...
Initial release date:
- 1938
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
The Letter
The Letter is a 1940 American film noir directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch is based on the 1927 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, originally filmed in 1929.
On a moonlit night in the opening scene, Leslie Crosbie ...
Initial release date:
- Nov 22, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
Morning Glory
Morning Glory (1933) is a pre-Code American drama film which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou. The...
Initial release date:
- Aug 18, 1933
Directed by:
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White Banners
White Banners is a 1938 Warner Brothers drama motion picture starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson.
Directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the...
Initial release date:
- Jun 22, 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty.
Prouty borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
Produced by:
Caged
Caged is a 1950 film which tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into...
Initial release date:
- May 19, 1950
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
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Distant Drums
Distant Drums is a 1951 film (more specifically, a "Florida Western") directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gary Cooper. It is set during the Second Seminole War in the 1840s, with Cooper playing an Army captain who destroys a fort held by the...
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Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 film directed by Frank Capra based on a play of the same name by Joseph Kesselring. The script was adapted by Julius J. Epstein. Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the...
Initial release date:
- Sep 23, 1944
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,120,175 (US$)
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 crime film starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien and featuring Margaret Wycherly, and Steve Cochran. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts screenplay based on a story by Virginia Kellogg,...
Initial release date:
- 1949
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
Produced by:
Operation Pacific
Operation Pacific is a 1951 World War II submarine film starring John Wayne and directed by George Waggner. The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the actual Commander, Submarine Forces, Pacific (COMSUBPAC) during World...
Initial release date:
- 1951
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 111 min (66.6 hs )
Pursued
Pursued is a 1947 movie starring Robert Mitchum that combines western, film noir and psychological melodrama. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and photographed in black-and-white by James Wong Howe.
Set in New Mexico around the turn of the...
Initial release date:
- Mar 2, 1947
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
Jezebel
Jezebel is an American drama film released in 1938 and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, and Fay Bainter. The film was adapted by Clements...
Initial release date:
- 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
The Great Lie
The Great Lie is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee is based on the novel The Far Horizon by Polan Banks.
When concert pianist Sandra Kovak and her avaiator husband Peter Van Allen discover...
Initial release date:
- 1941
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Key Largo
Key Largo is a 1948 crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor. This was the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Bogart and Bacall. Trevor won the 1948 Academy Award for...
Initial release date:
- Jul 16, 1948
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
Saratoga Trunk
Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Florence Bates, and Flora Robson, who was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar...
Initial release date:
- Nov 21, 1945
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 135 min (81 hs )
Screenplay by:
Battle Cry
Battle Cry is a 1955 CinemaScope film, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Raymond Massey, and Mona Freeman. The movie is based on the novel by Leon Uris, who also wrote the screenplay, and was...
Initial release date:
- Feb 2, 1955
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 149 min (89.4 hs )
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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead in a film about the ...
Initial release date:
- 1946
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Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
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Son of Kong
Son of Kong is a 1933 adventure movie and a sequel to the film King Kong.
The story picks up about a month after the dramatic finale of the previous film and follows the further adventures of filmmaker Carl Denham (again played by Robert Armstrong),...
Initial release date:
- Dec 22, 1933
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Runtime:
- 69 min (41 hs )
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Mission to Moscow
Mission to Moscow is a 1943 drama directed by Michael Curtiz, and book of the same name by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.
The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and is one of the movies famously...
Initial release date:
- May 22, 1943
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree is a 1959 movie directed by Delmer Daves and finished by actor Karl Malden. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden and George C. Scott and is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and...
Initial release date:
- Feb 11, 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) is a horror film directed by Robert Florey and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story by W. F. Harvey first published in the New Decameron. The original music score was composed by Max Steiner....
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1946
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Produced by:
The Gay Sisters
The Gay Sisters is a 1942 American Warner Bros. drama film starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp and Gig Young, which was based on a novel by Stephen Longstreet. Directed by Irving Rapper.
Fiona, Evelyn and...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Screenplay by:
Break of Hearts
Break of Hearts is a 1935 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, with Anthony Veiller, from a story by Lester Cohen, specifically for Hepburn.
Boyer played...
Initial release date:
- May 31, 1935
Runtime:
- 78 min (47 hs )
Produced by:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is a feature film made in 1952.
It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.
It starred Susan Whitney as Lucia dos Santos, Sammy Ogg as Francisco...
Initial release date:
- Aug 20, 1952
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Adventures of Mark Twain is a 1944 live action biographical film.
The film stars Fredric March as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Alexis Smith as his wife, Olivia. It was produced at Warner Brothers, and directed by Irving Rapper, with music by...
Initial release date:
- Jul 22, 1944
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
Produced by:
Beyond the Forest
Beyond the Forest (1949) is an American film, representative of the film noir genre.
Rosa is the neglected wife of a small-town doctor. She grows bored and becomes infatuated with a visiting Chicago businessman. She extorts money from her husband's...
Initial release date:
- Oct 21, 1949
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
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I Dream Too Much
I Dream Too Much is a 1935 romantic comedy film, directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earliest roles. It has been described as a "somewhat wispy operetta."
Annette Monard Street (played by Pons)...
Initial release date:
- Nov 27, 1935
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life is a 1946 drama film, directed by Curtis Bernhardt. It stars Bette Davis, who also produced. The film is a remake of a 1939 British film Stolen Life starring Elisabeth Bergner and Michael Redgrave.
Kate Bosworth (played by Davis) is an...
Initial release date:
- Jul 6, 1946
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Produced by:
Little Women
Little Women is a 1933 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. This is the third screen adaptation of the book, following...
Initial release date:
- Nov 16, 1933
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
Daughters Courageous
Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters (Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla), with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page. It also starred John Garfield and Claude Rains. Based on the play Fly Away Home by Dorothy...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
The FBI Story
The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead.
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) opens the film narrating the...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 149 min (89.4 hs )
Produced by:
Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy is a 1956 Warner Bros. epic film, based on Homer's Iliad. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash. The music score was by Max Steiner and the...
Initial release date:
- 1956
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The Unfaithful
The Unfaithful is a 1947 film noir based on the W. Somerset Maugham penned 1940 Bette Davis movie, The Letter. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman.
While Chris Hunter's (Ann Sheridan) husband is away, a woman gets involved in a murder.
The New...
Initial release date:
- Jun 5, 1947
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Produced by:
What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans is an aspiring...
Initial release date:
- Jun 24, 1932
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Screenplay by:
Cimarron
Cimarron (1931) is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron.
Despite America being in the depths of the Depression, RKO immediately prepared for a big-budget picture, investing more than 1.5 million dollars into...
Initial release date:
- Feb 9, 1931
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 131 min (78.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,500,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a musical film made by RKO and released on December 29, in 1933.
The film was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Lou Brock. The screenplay was written by Erwin S. Gelsey, H.W. Hanemann and Cyril...
Initial release date:
- Dec 29, 1933
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
Produced by:
Virginia City
Virginia City is a 1940 black-and-white movie starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, and Randolph Scott, and featuring a mustachioed Humphrey Bogart in the role of the real-life outlaw John Murrell. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who also...
Initial release date:
- May 16, 1940
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Produced by:
Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road (1949) is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a story about small town political corruption. The screenplay by Edmund H. North was based upon a play by Robert and...
Initial release date:
- 1949
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 94 min (56 hs )
Produced by:
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. The epic film, set in the American South...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Rating:
Runtime:
- 222 min (133 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,900,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable...
Initial release date:
- Feb 20, 1936
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables is a 1934 film directed by George Nichols Jr., based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The actress who portrayed Anne Shirley, Dawn O'Day, changed her stage name to Anne Shirley after making this film...
Initial release date:
- Nov 23, 1934
Runtime:
- 78 min (47 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Flame and the Arrow
The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt. The...
Initial release date:
- 1950
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Screenplay by:
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film and the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon relates the further adventures...
Initial release date:
- Mar 26, 1953
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born is a 1937 romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and...
Initial release date:
- Apr 20, 1937
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 111 min (66.6 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Each Dawn I Die
Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 22, 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
