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Show Boat (1929 - b/w)/Show Boat (1936 - b/w) - The latter has some Whale verve.

Lady Tubbs (1935 - b/w) - Goofy railroad comedy.

Waterloo Bridge (1931 - b/w)/Waterloo Bridge (1940 - b/w) - Typical weepies.

Iron Man (1931 - b/w) - Lew Ayres boxes. See also Up For Murder (1931 - b/w).

My Pal the King (1932 - b/w) - Tm Mix babysits king Mickey Rooney of some mittel-European state. Not to be confused with King for a Night (1933 - b/w), another boxing story like The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933 - b/w) - Max Baer, Myrna Loy and Primo Carnera.

Tom Brown of Culver (1932 - b/w)/Spirit of Culver (1939 - b/w) - Dreary military school stories.

Scandal for Sale (1932 - b/w) - Timekilling journo yarn with Pat O'Brien.

Scarface (1932 - b/w) - Does in 90 minutes what De Palma failed to do in three hours.

Strictly Dishonorable (1932 - b/w) - Paul Lukas romcom.

Once in a Lifetime (1932 - b/w) - Forgettable Jack Oakie comedy.

Counsellor at Law (1933 - b/w) - John Barrymore legal yarn.

Saturday's Millions (1933 - b/w) - Robert Young and College football. Snore.

Moonlight and Pretzels (1933 - b/w) - Undistinguished musical with Leo Carrillo.

Only Yesterday (1933 - b/w) - Margaret Sullavan weepie.

The Kiss Before The Mirror (1933 - b/w) - Generic mystery/drama with Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon and Gloria Stuart.

Wake Up And Dream (1934 - b/w) - Forgettable musical.

Million Dollar Ransom (1934 - b/w) - B-mystery with Andy Devine reacting.

There's Always Tomorrow (1934 - b/w) - Tiring melodrama with Frank Morgan.  Remade in (1956) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.

Little Man, What Now (1934 - b/w) - Tiring Borzage melodrama.

One More River (1934 - b/w) - Semi-convincingly British set Galsworthy adap.
See also By Candlelight (1933 - b/w), The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934 - b/w).

The Crosby Case (1934 - b/w) - Dreary Universal mystery.

The Good Fairy (1935 - b/w) - Well-made women's picture for Margaret Sullavan.

Rendezvous at Midnight (1935 - b/w) - Forgettable B-mystery with Ralph Bellamy.

Three Kids and a Queen (1935 - b/w) - Annoying kids accompany May Robson.

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936 - b/w) - Forgettable metathing with Reginald Denny.

The Sea Spoilers (1936 - b/w) - Forgettable naval saga with John Wayne.

A Girl with Ideas (1937-  b/w) - Bland comedy with Walter Pidgeon.

Top of the Town (1937 - b/w) - Bland musical with Doris Nolan, who later moved to the UK, and appeared in Emergency Ward 10. Just saw her yesterday in Juggernaut, as Clifton James' wife. Watch Juggernaut instead.

You're A Sweetheart (1937 - b/w) - Alice Faye sings. Andy Devine mugs.

One Hundred Men And A  Girl (1937 - b/w) - Deanna f***** Durbin.

Merry Go Round of 1938 (1937-b/w) - Rote variety show. Set in India.

Breezing Home (1937 - b/w)  Railroading roadtrip drama with horse racing and Binnie Barnes.

Little Tough Guy (1938 - b/w) - The Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys/whatever they're called.

Young Fugitives (1938 - b/w) - Civil War-commemorating crime nonsense.

Youth Takes A Fling (1938 - b/w) - Joel McCrea romcom.

Rage of Paris (1938 - b/w) - Bland romance with Danielle Darrieux and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, sumptuous design, though.

Danger on the Air (1938 - b/w) - Was sure I'd seen this Crime Club before. But no, it's so generic that you'd swear you had.

The Devil's Party (1938 - b/w) - Rote gangstering with Victor McLaglen.

I Stole A Million (1939 - b/w) - George Raft in a fedora.

When Tomorrow Comes (1939 - b/w) - Another Charles Boyer/Irene Dunne vehicle. Has Onslow Stevens and Fritz Feld.

Unexpected Father (1939 - b/w)  Baby Sandy is a useless lead.

The Sun Never Sets (1939 - b/w) - Colonial boredom with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Basil Rathbone.

East Side of Heaven (1939 - b/w) - Another musical, with Bing Crosby.

Murder in the Blue Room (1944 - b/w) - A bland remake of a 30s horror, with added musical interludes.

Pirates of Monterey (1947) - Bland western in Mexico with Maria Montez in her last film for Universal.

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948 - b/w) - Forgettable Sonja Henie musical.

Life of Riley (1949 - b/w) - Typical stodgy radio adaptation with William Bendix.

Story of Molly X (1949 - B/W) - Stodgy noir with June Havoc.

The Fighting O'Flynn (1949 - b/w) - Oirish swashbuckler, Little Europe as Dublin, with Douglas Fairbanks Jr versus Richard Greene.

Undercover Girl (1950 - b/w) - Dreary B-spy film with Scott Brayd, Richard Egan and Alexis Smith.

Louisa (1950 - b/w) - Forgettable comedy with Ronald Reagan.

Peggy (1950) - Forgettable teen comedy with Rock Hudson.

Steel Town (1952) - Western in oil drag. 

The Veils of Bagdad (1953) - Bland Arab adventure with Victor Mature.

The Golden Blade (1953) - Bland Arab adventure with Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie.

The Mississippi Gambler (1953) - Rote western with Tyrone Power and Piper Laurie.

The Glass Web (1953 - b/w) - Ludicrous melodrama set in a TV studio, with John Forsythe and Edward G. Robinson.

Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) - Forgettable musical with Donald O'Connor and Janet Leigh.

The Sign of the Pagan (1954) - Ludicrous Mongol saga with Jack Palance and Jeff Chandler.

Kiss Of Fire (1955)  - Basically a western in Spain with Jack Palance.

Female on the Beach (1955) - Dodgy Joan Crawford melodrama.

Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) - Silly Maureen O'Hara medieval tosh.

Running Wild (1955 - b/w) - Good grief, another dreary JD film, with John Saxon.

So This is Paris (1955) - Generic musical with Tony Curtis.

The Unguarded Moment (1955) - Horrid little sexual harassment/JD thing with Esther Williams and John Saxon.

One Desire (1955) - Sumptuous but unexciting period drama with Anne Baxter and Rock Hudson.

Foxfire (1955) - Tiring melodrama with Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler as an Apache oilman.

The Looters (1955  - b/w) - Godawful modern western with Rory Calhoun.

The Shrike (1955) - Without a beard/tache, José Ferrer looks irritatingly gormless.

To Hell and Back (1955) - Interesting, overlong but interesting dramatisation of Audie Murphy's life, even though Audie isn't particularly convincing as himself.

Never Say Goodbye (1956) - Bland melodrama set partly in backlot mittel-Europe, with suburban heartache and Rock Hudson.

Price of Fear (1956 - b/w) - Merle Oberon sloppy noir.

Everything but the Truth (1956) - Goofy comedy with John Forsythe and Maureen O'Hara. A  redo of Her Adventurous Night (1946 - b/w).

World in my Corner (1956 - b/w) - Bland Audie Murphy boxing vehicle. See also The Square Jungle (1956 - b/w).

Away All Boats (1956) - Bland naval saga.

Mr. Cory (1957) - Dreary thriller with Tony Curtis. See also Six Bridges to Cross (1955).

Battle Hymn (1957) - Mawkish Korean war orphan melodrama with Rock Hudson and the Welsh/Indian-but-probably-not-actually-Desi Anna Kashfi.

The Tattered Dress (1957) - Stodgy noir with Jeff Chandler.

The Night Runner (1957) - Painful noir with George Nader.
See also The Man Afraid (1957 - b/w), Appointment with a Shadow (1957 - b/w), the Hollywood-set Female Animals (1957 - best of the bunch) and the Nader-free Behind the High Wall (1956 - b/w - not the Robert Taylor vehicle High Wall (1947 - b/w)), and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957 - b/w) and Outside the Law (1956 - b/w).

My Man Godfrey (1957) - Bland remake with David Niven.

Voice in the Mirror (1958 - b/w) - Tiring Richard Egan alcohol drama.