Charles Peck
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Dead End
1937-08-27
Dead End
Overview: Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Of Human Hearts
1938-02-11
Of Human Hearts
Overview: This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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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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Five Little Peppers at Home
1940-02-08
Five Little Peppers at Home
Overview: The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940-09-01
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Overview: The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Out West with the Peppers
1940-06-30
Out West with the Peppers
Overview: When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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Judge Hardy's Children
1938-03-26
Judge Hardy's Children
Overview: Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Tower of London
1939-11-17
Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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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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The Hucksters
1947-07-17
The Hucksters
Overview: A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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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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Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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A Christmas Carol
1938-12-16
A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Mad About Music
1938-02-27
Mad About Music
Overview: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-27
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