William Newell
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Birthday: January 05, 1894
Deathday: February 21, 1967
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Manpower
1941-08-09
Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Here Come the Marines
1952-06-29
Here Come the Marines
Overview: After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-29
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The Missouri Traveler
1958-01-21
The Missouri Traveler
Overview: Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Bombshell
1933-10-13
Bombshell
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
1946-11-22
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Overview: A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-22
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Keeper of the Flame
1943-04-01
Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
1940-12-13
Mysterious Doctor Satan
Overview: A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Alias Mr. Twilight
1946-12-24
Alias Mr. Twilight
Overview: Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-24
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950-04-01
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Overview: When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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The Mandarin Mystery
1936-12-23
The Mandarin Mystery
Overview: Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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Bowery Bombshell
1946-07-20
Bowery Bombshell
Overview: Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-20
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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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Second Chance
1947-07-18
Second Chance
Overview: Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Mister Cory
1957-02-23
Mister Cory
Overview: An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-23
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Miss Polly
1941-11-14
Miss Polly
Overview: A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Sing a Jingle
1944-01-07
Sing a Jingle
Overview: In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane, the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
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Rendezvous
1935-10-25
Rendezvous
Overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Rhythm in the Clouds
1937-06-21
Rhythm in the Clouds
Overview: Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-21
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1942-02-02
A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Sitting on the Moon
1936-09-11
Sitting on the Moon
Overview: A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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The Invisible Killer
1939-11-14
The Invisible Killer
Overview: Reporter Sue Walker has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown, chief of the police Homicide Squad. When the call comes in that there has been a killing at Lefty Ross' place, a notorious gambling joint, Jerry is peeved when Sue beats him there. He discovers that gambler Jimmy Clark was killed as he answered a telephone call, and his body is riddled with bullets but Jerry can't find any weapon. Sue is amazed to see Gloria Cunningham there. Gloria's father is one of the town's leading reformers and she is engaged to District Attorney Richard Sutton. Ross decides to give Sutton all the information he needs and makes an appointment to go to Sutton's home. Once there, Ross is called to the telephone before he can give any information, and is killed in the same mysterious manner as Jimmy Clark.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-14
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Larceny on the Air
1937-01-11
Larceny on the Air
Overview: A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-11
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Beware Of Ladies
1936-12-21
Beware Of Ladies
Overview: An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-21
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Bulldog Edition
1936-09-13
Bulldog Edition
Overview: Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-13
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Navy Born
1936-06-02
Navy Born
Overview: A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance of the lad's surviving relatives, who worry that growing in the Navy will be hard on the boy, the officer loves and takes good care of the boy. At least he does until the child is abducted by a gangster who has mistaken him for his long-lost boy. Fortunately for the young fellow, the officer rallies the entire Navy and comes to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-02
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Happy Go Lucky
1936-12-13
Happy Go Lucky
Overview: A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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A Man Betrayed
1936-12-27
A Man Betrayed
Overview: A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
1936-11-13
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Overview: A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Bill Cracks Down
1937-03-22
Bill Cracks Down
Overview: William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-22
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Dangerous Holiday
1937-06-06
Dangerous Holiday
Overview: A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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Who Was That Lady?
1960-04-08
Who Was That Lady?
Overview: In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Last Train from Gun Hill
1959-07-29
Last Train from Gun Hill
Overview: A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941-08-07
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Overview: Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Slander House
1938-10-04
Slander House
Overview: Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-04
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Escape from Fort Bravo
1953-12-04
Escape from Fort Bravo
Overview: A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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Phffft
1954-11-10
Phffft
Overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Wedding Bills
1940-11-13
Wedding Bills
Overview: Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget for their plans to get married. His budget, alas, does not include nor anticipate the plans of Sally and her parents. This short was reissued in June of 1950 to be shown as a trailer with 1950's "Father of the Bride" and some sources think this short was made for that express purpose and date it as a 1950 film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-13
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The Sheepman
1958-05-01
The Sheepman
Overview: A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Louisa
1950-05-31
Louisa
Overview: Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Let's Talk Turkey
1939-10-28
Let's Talk Turkey
Overview: It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Caught in the Act
1941-01-17
Caught in the Act
Overview: On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspected by his wife of being involved with another woman, wrongly implicates his company's boss as a racketeer, and is arrested by police for running a shakedown operation. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Bright Victory
1951-08-01
Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1942-12-09
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Overview: Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-09
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Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
Here Comes the Band
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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The Outlaw
1943-02-05
The Outlaw
Overview: Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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Honolulu
1939-02-03
Honolulu
Overview: Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
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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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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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Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Good Girls Go to Paris
Overview: Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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Second Fiddle
1939-06-30
Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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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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Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939-12-13
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Overview: Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-13
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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 Housekeeper's Daughter
1939-10-26
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Overview: A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Wedlock Deadlock
1947-12-18
Wedlock Deadlock
Overview: Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-18
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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 Day the Bookies Wept
1939-09-13
The Day the Bookies Wept
Overview: A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-13
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The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
The Lost Weekend
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
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Libeled Lady
1936-10-09
Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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The Invisible Man Returns
1940-01-12
The Invisible Man Returns
Overview: The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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Philo Vance's Secret Mission
1947-08-30
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
Overview: Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-30
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Everybody's Baby
1939-03-24
Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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High Noon
1952-06-09
High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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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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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937-05-09
Make Way for Tomorrow
Overview: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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City for Conquest
1940-09-21
City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23
Dangerous Blondes
Overview: Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-23
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He Stayed for Breakfast
1940-08-31
He Stayed for Breakfast
Overview: Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Hold That Woman!
1940-06-28
Hold That Woman!
Overview: A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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The Great Profile
1940-08-30
The Great Profile
Overview: An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Let's Do It Again
1953-06-16
Let's Do It Again
Overview: Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-16
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The Magnificent Rogue
1946-11-07
The Magnificent Rogue
Overview: A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Three Girls About Town
Overview: Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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Our Miss Brooks
1956-04-24
Our Miss Brooks
Overview: The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-24
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Honeymoon Limited
1935-07-01
Honeymoon Limited
Overview: A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Devil Pays Off
1941-11-10
Devil Pays Off
Overview: A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1940-07-05
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Overview: Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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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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Alfalfa's Aunt
1939-01-07
Alfalfa's Aunt
Overview: Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the Spanky and the gang to save him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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Bubbling Troubles
1940-05-25
Bubbling Troubles
Overview: To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-25
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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 Great Morgan
1945-01-01
The Great Morgan
Overview: Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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The Lady Pays Off
1951-10-04
The Lady Pays Off
Overview: The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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Fired Wife
1943-09-04
Fired Wife
Overview: A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-04
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Public Deb No. 1
1940-09-13
Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Honeymoon Lodge
1943-07-23
Honeymoon Lodge
Overview: Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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No Place for a Lady
1943-02-11
No Place for a Lady
Overview: A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-11
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Top Man
1943-09-17
Top Man
Overview: In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Ice-Capades
Overview: Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-19
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The Domineering Male
1940-03-30
The Domineering Male
Overview: This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-30
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Doctor Jim
1947-01-01
Doctor Jim
Overview: Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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A Night to Remember
1942-12-10
A Night to Remember
Overview: A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-10
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Song of My Heart
1948-01-31
Song of My Heart
Overview: The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-31
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Inflation
1942-01-01
Inflation
Overview: The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936-02-15
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Overview: A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Young Man with Ideas
1952-05-02
Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
The Major and the Minor
Overview: Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-16
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Adventure
1945-12-28
Adventure
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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On Stage Everybody
1945-07-13
On Stage Everybody
Overview: Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Her Lucky Night
1945-02-09
Her Lucky Night
Overview: In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-09
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Absolute Quiet
1936-04-24
Absolute Quiet
Overview: Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Young Widow
1946-03-01
Young Widow
Overview: A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960-01-21
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Overview: Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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Pollyanna
1960-05-19
Pollyanna
Overview: A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Wichita
1955-07-03
Wichita
Overview: Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-03
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Blondie Goes Latin
1941-02-27
Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940-03-08
The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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The Missing Juror
1944-11-16
The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Lady in the Lake
1946-12-19
Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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Riffraff
1936-01-03
Riffraff
Overview: Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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The Man Who Dared
1946-05-30
The Man Who Dared
Overview: A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Genres: Crime Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-30
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All About Hash
1940-03-30
All About Hash
Overview: Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get them to stop fighting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-30
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Culinary Carving
1939-07-01
Culinary Carving
Overview: A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-01
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