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Movie Summaries & Endings Explained from 1959 and Earlier
4,692 movies from 1959 and earlier, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956 · Western
Beach Picnic
1939 · Comedy
Porky’s Picnic
1939 · Animation
Fiend Without a Face
1958 · Horror
Thunder on the Hill
1951 · Drama
Bang! You’re Dead
1954 · Drama
I Was a Male War Bride
1949 · Romance
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Drama
Blowing Wild
1953 · Action
Rancho Notorious
1952 · Western
Hold Back Tomorrow
1955 · Drama
Desk Set
1957 · Comedy
One Rainy Afternoon
1936 · Comedy
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936 · Drama
Saved by the Belle
1939 · Comedy
The Boys from Leningrad
1954 · Comedy
The End of the Day
1939 · Drama
Rockets Galore
1958 · Comedy
Station West
1948 · Western
The President’s Lady
1953 · Western
State Fair
1945 · Comedy
Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955 · Drama
The Flying Scot
1957 · Crime
Gaucho Serenade
1940 · Western
His Double Life
1933 · Drama
Mexicali Rose
1939 · Western
Professional Sweetheart
1933 · Romance
The High Cost of Loving
1958 · Comedy
Here We Go Again
1942 · Comedy
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Comedy
The Voice of Merrill
1952 · Mystery
Stella
1955 · Drama
Feather Bluster
1958 · Animation
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947 · Mystery
That Certain Age
1938 · Music
The Black Orchid
1958 · Romance
Blood on the Sun
1945 · Action
Skylark
1941 · Comedy
Black Magic
1944 · Mystery
Her Cardboard Lover
1942 · Romance
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