Harry Hayden
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 07, 1882
Deathday: July 24, 1955
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Rusty Leads the Way
1948-10-21
Rusty Leads the Way
Overview: Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-21
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Artists & Models
1937-08-04
Artists & Models
Overview: An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Love Is News
1937-02-26
Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
The Princess Comes Across
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Kill the Umpire
1950-04-27
Kill the Umpire
Overview: Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-27
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Hidden Power
1939-09-07
Hidden Power
Overview: Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Christmas in July
1940-10-25
Christmas in July
Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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The Velvet Touch
1948-07-13
The Velvet Touch
Overview: After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-13
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Out of the Storm
1948-09-11
Out of the Storm
Overview: Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-11
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944-08-09
Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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Union Station
1950-10-04
Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Pier 23
1951-05-11
Pier 23
Overview: Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-11
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Weird Woman
1944-03-01
Weird Woman
Overview: After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-01
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Key Witness
1947-10-09
Key Witness
Overview: A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
1945-07-05
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Overview: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-05
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Wedding Present
1936-10-09
Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Intruder in the Dust
1949-11-22
Intruder in the Dust
Overview: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-22
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The Big Noise
1944-09-22
The Big Noise
Overview: During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
Bad Little Angel
Overview: A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Mississippi Gambler
1942-04-17
Mississippi Gambler
Overview: A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Whispering Ghosts
1942-05-17
Whispering Ghosts
Overview: A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-17
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The Unfinished Dance
1947-09-19
The Unfinished Dance
Overview: A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Flight at Midnight
1939-08-28
Flight at Midnight
Overview: Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Genres: Action Romance Music Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Merton of the Movies
1947-10-11
Merton of the Movies
Overview: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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The Arkansas Traveler
1938-10-14
The Arkansas Traveler
Overview: The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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The Unknown Guest
1943-10-22
The Unknown Guest
Overview: Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-22
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God's Country and the Woman
1937-01-16
God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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Springtime in the Rockies
1942-11-06
Springtime in the Rockies
Overview: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-06
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Maid Trouble
1946-02-02
Maid Trouble
Overview: Leon Errol wants to retain his maid; complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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Public Enemy's Wife
1936-07-24
Public Enemy's Wife
Overview: Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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When in Rome
1952-05-11
When in Rome
Overview: An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-11
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Saleslady
1938-01-27
Saleslady
Overview: A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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He Married His Wife
1940-01-19
He Married His Wife
Overview: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939-12-29
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Overview: An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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I Want a Divorce
1940-09-20
I Want a Divorce
Overview: Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939-08-22
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Overview: The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-22
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Atlantic Flight
1937-08-25
Atlantic Flight
Overview: Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film. In "Atlantic Flight" he's top-billed as a pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission to transport medicine to an ailing friend. Monogram.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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They All Come Out
1939-08-04
They All Come Out
Overview: A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-04
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College Holiday
1936-12-19
College Holiday
Overview: College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Barricade
1939-12-08
Barricade
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1947-03-07
Easy Come, Easy Go
Overview: Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26
John Meade's Woman
Overview: "Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Here I Am a Stranger
1939-09-29
Here I Am a Stranger
Overview: The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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The Lady and the Monster
1944-04-17
The Lady and the Monster
Overview: A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-17
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Till the Clouds Roll By
1946-12-05
Till the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Boom Town
1940-08-30
Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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The Last Posse
1953-07-04
The Last Posse
Overview: A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-04
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Delinquent Parents
1938-07-15
Delinquent Parents
Overview: A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-15
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The Dude Goes West
1948-05-30
The Dude Goes West
Overview: Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-30
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Bathing Beauty
1944-06-27
Bathing Beauty
Overview: After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-27
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Up in Arms
1944-02-17
Up in Arms
Overview: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Three Hearts for Julia
1943-05-21
Three Hearts for Julia
Overview: When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Four Men and a Prayer
1938-04-29
Four Men and a Prayer
Overview: The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15
Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Captain China
1950-02-02
Captain China
Overview: The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Double Danger
1938-01-28
Double Danger
Overview: A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Love Is on the Air
1937-10-02
Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Melody for Two
1937-05-01
Melody for Two
Overview: A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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The Case of the Black Cat
1936-10-31
The Case of the Black Cat
Overview: Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-31
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A Medal for Benny
1945-04-16
A Medal for Benny
Overview: Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-16
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The Virginian
1946-05-05
The Virginian
Overview: Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-05
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Exclusive
1937-08-06
Exclusive
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944-04-01
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Overview: High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Carrie
1952-07-17
Carrie
Overview: Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-17
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
Wife, Husband and Friend
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Charlie Chan in Reno
1939-06-16
Charlie Chan in Reno
Overview: Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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At the Circus
1939-10-20
At the Circus
Overview: Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
Invitation to Happiness
Overview: An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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The House of Fear
1939-06-30
The House of Fear
Overview: A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Frontier Marshal
Overview: Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Swanee River
1939-12-29
Swanee River
Overview: Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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The Under-Pup
1939-08-31
The Under-Pup
Overview: A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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The Rains Came
1939-09-15
The Rains Came
Overview: Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Mutiny in the Big House
1939-10-24
Mutiny in the Big House
Overview: A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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The Traveling Saleswoman
1950-02-15
The Traveling Saleswoman
Overview: The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Best Foot Forward
1943-10-08
Best Foot Forward
Overview: Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Kentucky
1938-12-30
Kentucky
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940-01-11
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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You're Not So Tough
1940-07-26
You're Not So Tough
Overview: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Midnight Court
1937-03-06
Midnight Court
Overview: After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Army Bound
1952-10-05
Army Bound
Overview: Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-05
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Should a Girl Marry?
1939-06-07
Should a Girl Marry?
Overview: A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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The Magnificent Dope
1942-07-01
The Magnificent Dope
Overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Every Girl Should Be Married
1948-12-25
Every Girl Should Be Married
Overview: Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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The Desperado
1954-06-20
The Desperado
Overview: "Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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Newlyweds Take a Chance
1951-08-08
Newlyweds Take a Chance
Overview: When her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Dangerous Partners
1945-06-07
Dangerous Partners
Overview: A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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Society Smugglers
1939-03-01
Society Smugglers
Overview: The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Notorious
1946-08-21
Notorious
Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Out of the Past
1947-11-25
Out of the Past
Overview: Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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The Parson of Panamint
1941-07-25
The Parson of Panamint
Overview: As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-25
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Hoosier Schoolboy
1937-07-07
Hoosier Schoolboy
Overview: A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-07
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The Killers
1946-08-30
The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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This Gun for Hire
1942-04-24
This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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The Woman in the Window
1944-10-25
The Woman in the Window
Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-25
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All by Myself
1943-06-11
All by Myself
Overview: Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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Black Friday
1940-02-29
Black Friday
Overview: University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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Two Against the World
1936-07-11
Two Against the World
Overview: Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-11
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The Night of January 16th
1941-11-28
The Night of January 16th
Overview: Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Boom Town
1940-08-30
Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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I Married a Doctor
1936-04-25
I Married a Doctor
Overview: City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-25
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Lillian Russell
1940-05-24
Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Saps at Sea
1940-04-29
Saps at Sea
Overview: Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-29
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Danger Patrol
1937-11-18
Danger Patrol
Overview: An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-18
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Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940-04-04
The Courageous Dr. Christian
Overview: A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-04
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I Love You Again
1940-08-09
I Love You Again
Overview: Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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The Mad Doctor
1940-12-20
The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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City of Chance
1940-01-13
City of Chance
Overview: Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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Phantoms, Inc.
1945-06-09
Phantoms, Inc.
Overview: This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-09
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Lone Star Ranger
1942-03-20
Lone Star Ranger
Overview: Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942-08-01
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Overview: Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Valley of the Sun
1942-02-06
Valley of the Sun
Overview: An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939-07-21
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Overview: Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Remember the Day
1941-12-25
Remember the Day
Overview: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15
Blossoms in the Dust
Overview: Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Judge Steps Out
1947-12-15
The Judge Steps Out
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Up in Mabel's Room
1944-09-12
Up in Mabel's Room
Overview: Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-12
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Barbary Coast Gent
1944-09-01
Barbary Coast Gent
Overview: Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Straight, Place and Show
1938-09-30
Straight, Place and Show
Overview: The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Double Alibi
1940-03-01
Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Get Hep to Love
1942-10-02
Get Hep to Love
Overview: Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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New Wine
1941-09-10
New Wine
Overview: The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-10
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Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Blue Dahlia
1946-04-16
The Blue Dahlia
Overview: Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-16
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Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
1949-05-07
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
Overview: Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass production techniques to the USA in the late 18th century.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-07
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Docks of New Orleans
1948-03-21
Docks of New Orleans
Overview: Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-21
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Captain China
1950-02-02
Captain China
Overview: The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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Week-End in Havana
1941-10-17
Week-End in Havana
Overview: A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her vacation now, not later. Jay is instructed to take Nan to Havana, set her up in the best hotel, and keep her entertained. She visits a nightclub where the star attraction is Rosita Rivas and meets Rosita's worthless manager, Monte Blanca, who makes a play for her. Trouble also comes in the form of Jay's fiancée, Terry McCracken, when a romance develops between Nan and Jay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
1949-05-26
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Overview: Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942-08-07
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Overview: Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Du Barry was a Lady
1943-08-13
Du Barry was a Lady
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Secret Heart
1946-12-25
The Secret Heart
Overview: Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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We Who Are Young
1940-07-19
We Who Are Young
Overview: A man violates company policy by getting married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Rings on Her Fingers
1942-03-20
Rings on Her Fingers
Overview: Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Puddin' Head
1941-06-25
Puddin' Head
Overview: On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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Marked Woman
1937-04-10
Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Hold That Ghost
1941-08-08
Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Black Legion
1937-01-30
Black Legion
Overview: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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They Made Me a Killer
1946-05-03
They Made Me a Killer
Overview: A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-03
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Night in New Orleans
1942-07-01
Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1947-02-04
My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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Gun Crazy
1950-01-20
Gun Crazy
Overview: Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-20
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You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
1943-10-22
You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
Overview: A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-22
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Overview: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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A Man Betrayed
1941-03-07
A Man Betrayed
Overview: Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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Sleepers West
1941-03-14
Sleepers West
Overview: Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1949-03-06
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Overview: Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-06
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Killer at Large
1936-10-27
Killer at Large
Overview: A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-27
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California
1947-02-21
California
Overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-21
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You Can't Escape Forever
1942-10-10
You Can't Escape Forever
Overview: A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-10
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Street Bandits
1951-11-09
Street Bandits
Overview: A lawyer (Robert Clarke) defends a slot-machine king, and his bride (Penny Edwards) and partner (Ross Ford) don't like it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Tales of Manhattan
Overview: Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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The Meanest Man in the World
1943-02-12
The Meanest Man in the World
Overview: Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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The Great Moment
1944-07-18
The Great Moment
Overview: The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-18
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Double Dynamite
1951-12-25
Double Dynamite
Overview: An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Overview: George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-17
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936-10-01
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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