John "Skins" Miller
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 06, 1890
Deathday: July 15, 1956
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The Time of Your Life
1948-09-03
The Time of Your Life
Overview: Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
Tobacco Road
Overview: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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The Raging Tide
1951-11-01
The Raging Tide
Overview: A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08
We Who Are About to Die
Overview: John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Desirable
1934-09-08
Desirable
Overview: A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Heritage of the Desert
1939-06-23
Heritage of the Desert
Overview: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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The Return of Doctor X
1939-11-23
The Return of Doctor X
Overview: When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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All the King's Men
1949-11-16
All the King's Men
Overview: A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Top o' the Morning
1949-08-31
Top o' the Morning
Overview: A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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Son of a Sailor
1933-11-29
Son of a Sailor
Overview: A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
1937-08-14
The Devil's Saddle Legion
Overview: Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-14
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Overview: Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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King of the Lumberjacks
1940-04-13
King of the Lumberjacks
Overview: Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940-12-13
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Three Men from Texas
1940-11-15
Three Men from Texas
Overview: Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Sunset Boulevard
1950-08-10
Sunset Boulevard
Overview: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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It's in the Air
1935-10-10
It's in the Air
Overview: Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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The Merry Widow
1934-11-02
The Merry Widow
Overview: A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Conquerors
1932-11-18
The Conquerors
Overview: A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Internes Can't Take Money
1937-04-16
Internes Can't Take Money
Overview: Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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San Francisco
1936-06-26
San Francisco
Overview: A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
Sophie Lang Goes West
Overview: Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Don't Bet on Love
1933-06-30
Don't Bet on Love
Overview: A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Heroes for Sale
1933-06-17
Heroes for Sale
Overview: Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-17
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934-05-04
Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Central Airport
1933-04-15
Central Airport
Overview: Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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You May Be Next!
1936-02-05
You May Be Next!
Overview: Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Something to Sing About
1937-09-30
Something to Sing About
Overview: James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Gift of Gab
1934-09-01
Gift of Gab
Overview: Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935-01-04
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Overview: Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-04
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Arizona Mahoney
1936-12-04
Arizona Mahoney
Overview: When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Every Day's a Holiday
1937-12-18
Every Day's a Holiday
Overview: When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The Purchase Price
1932-07-23
The Purchase Price
Overview: Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-23
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934-11-02
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947-07-31
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Overview: A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-31
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Devil Pays Off
1941-11-10
Devil Pays Off
Overview: A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Coney Island
1943-06-18
Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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The Navy Way
1944-02-26
The Navy Way
Overview: The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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Sorrowful Jones
1949-07-04
Sorrowful Jones
Overview: A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Criss Cross
1949-02-04
Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Lost in a Harem
1944-12-01
Lost in a Harem
Overview: Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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Johnny Come Lately
1943-09-03
Johnny Come Lately
Overview: Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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The Big Street
1942-08-13
The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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