Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 27, 1885
Deathday: May 17, 1945
Popularity:
1945-03-22
Overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
Popularity:
1944-05-18
Overview: When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
Popularity:
1945-03-16
Overview: The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-16
Popularity:
1944-01-19
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
Popularity:
1938-11-25
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
Popularity:
1937-01-22
Overview: Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
Popularity:
1935-08-03
Overview: Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-03
Popularity:
1944-11-24
Overview: A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
Popularity:
1943-06-14
Overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
Popularity:
1941-10-01
Overview: A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
Popularity:
1937-03-03
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
Popularity:
1942-01-29
Overview: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
Popularity:
1935-06-28
Overview: A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
Popularity:
1941-10-01
Overview: John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
Popularity:
1938-03-18
Overview: Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
Popularity:
1942-07-03
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
Popularity:
1935-08-25
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
Popularity:
1941-12-04
Overview: A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-04
Popularity:
1936-09-22
Overview: A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-22
Popularity:
1935-04-18
Overview: The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
Popularity:
1935-04-10
Overview: A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-10
Popularity:
1939-03-29
Overview: Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
Popularity:
1939-05-05
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
Popularity:
1939-11-25
Overview: A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-25
Popularity:
1935-11-22
Overview: A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
Popularity:
1943-03-05
Overview: Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-05
Popularity:
1938-05-27
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
Popularity:
1945-11-29
Overview: Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
Popularity:
1936-04-19
Overview: John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-19
Popularity:
1940-02-02
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
Popularity:
1940-01-05
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
Popularity:
1936-05-22
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
Popularity:
1942-08-01
Overview: The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
Popularity:
1940-12-05
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
Popularity:
1940-05-17
Overview: On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
Popularity:
1940-03-21
Overview: A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-21
Popularity:
1940-10-19
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
Popularity:
1943-06-29
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
Popularity:
1939-05-26
Overview: An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
Popularity:
1941-10-31
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
Popularity:
1942-06-16
Overview: An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
Popularity:
1943-12-24
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
Popularity:
1943-06-23
Overview: The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
Popularity:
1943-10-23
Overview: A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-23
Popularity:
1940-03-08
Overview: A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
Popularity:
1938-09-28
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
Popularity:
1939-11-08
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
Popularity:
1941-11-14
Overview: A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to suspect that he intends to kill her to collect her life insurance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
Popularity:
1943-03-03
Overview: The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-03
Popularity:
1942-05-12
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
Popularity:
1944-09-20
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
Popularity:
1946-04-05
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
Popularity:
1937-01-23
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
Popularity:
1942-11-10
Overview: An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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