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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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That Brennan Girl
1946 · Romance
The Adventures of a Rookie
1943 · Comedy
Timber
1941 · Comedy
Untamed Youth
1957 · Music
Good Scouts
1938 · Animation
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · Romance
Run for the Sun
1956 · Adventure
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · Mystery
Double Door
1934 · Drama
Pennies from Heaven
1936 · Drama
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943 · Crime
The Grasshopper and the Ants
1934 · Animation
The Mysterious Doctor
1943 · Mystery
Gabriel Over the White House
1933 · Romance
Inner Sanctum
1948 · Thriller
The Black Dakotas
1954 · Romance
Wings Over Honolulu
1937 · Romance
The Command
1954 · Western
The Omaha Trail
1942 · Western
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 · Drama
Giantland
1933 · Animation
Ferdinand the Bull
1938 · Animation
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · Action
Micro-Phonies
1945 · Comedy
Gun Brothers
1956 · Western
Tomorrow at Seven
1933 · Crime
Porky’s Movie Mystery
1939 · Animation
Tomorrow, the World!
1944 · Drama
The Big Fisherman
1959 · Drama
The Yoke’s on Me
1944 · Comedy
Night Unto Night
1949 · Drama
Wyoming Renegades
1954 · Western
Third Man on the Mountain
1959 · Drama
Oklahoma Blues
1948 · Western
Air Hostess
1933 · Drama
The Prisoner of Zenda
1952 · Adventure
Missamma
1955 · Comedy
Of Human Bondage
1946 · Romance
Ten Tall Men
1951 · Action
Black Cat Mansion
1958 · Horror
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