Richard Lane
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American television announcer and actor who made his mark broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Lane was born in 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin to a farm family. Early in life he developed talents for reciting poetry and doing various song-and-dance acts. By his teenage years, he was doing an "iron jaw" routine in circuses around Europe and worked as a drummer touring with a band in Australia. After the decline of vaudeville, Lane obtained extensive work in motion pictures and was best known at the time for playing Inspector John or William Faraday or Farraday (depending on the film) in all fourteen Boston Blackie Columbia Pictures features starring Chester Morris, starting with Meet Boston Blackie in 1941. During World War II, he appeared as emcee with USO troops entertaining G.I.s. His unit appeared at Fort MacArthur in September 1944. Lane also announced for the Jalopy Derby and Destruction Derby at Ascot Park, Gardena California. Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 27, 1899
Deathday: September 05, 1982
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Youth Will Be Served
1940-11-22
Youth Will Be Served
Overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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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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Brother Orchid
1940-06-07
Brother Orchid
Overview: When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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The Return of the Whistler
1948-03-18
The Return of the Whistler
Overview: When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938-12-30
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Overview: While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949-03-09
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Overview: The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Don't Be a Sucker!
1943-07-04
Don't Be a Sucker!
Overview: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-04
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Arabian Nights
1942-12-25
Arabian Nights
Overview: Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The Jackie Robinson Story
1950-05-16
The Jackie Robinson Story
Overview: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-16
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Two O'Clock Courage
1945-04-13
Two O'Clock Courage
Overview: A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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The Admiral Was a Lady
1950-08-04
The Admiral Was a Lady
Overview: Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-04
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A-Haunting We Will Go
1942-08-07
A-Haunting We Will Go
Overview: Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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The Shaggy D.A.
1976-12-17
The Shaggy D.A.
Overview: Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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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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Time to Kill
1942-12-24
Time to Kill
Overview: Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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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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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
1946-01-24
A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
1943-03-18
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941-12-08
Confessions of Boston Blackie
Overview: A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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Boston Blackie and the Law
1946-12-12
Boston Blackie and the Law
Overview: Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-12
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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
1942-11-05
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Overview: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-05
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949-03-02
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Overview: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-02
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
1945-05-10
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Overview: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Meet Boston Blackie
1941-02-20
Meet Boston Blackie
Overview: When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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One Mysterious Night
1944-10-21
One Mysterious Night
Overview: After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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Trapped by Boston Blackie
1948-05-13
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-13
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Talk About a Lady
1946-03-28
Talk About a Lady
Overview: A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, manages to restore the optimism of a jaded and disillusioned nightclub owner. Eventually, she marries the manager of one of the man's nightclubs.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-28
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Alias Boston Blackie
1942-04-02
Alias Boston Blackie
Overview: It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Dead End Kids Go To War
1942-10-02
Dead End Kids Go To War
Overview: The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939-04-07
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Overview: In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Big Wheel
1949-11-04
The Big Wheel
Overview: The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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The Bullfighters
1945-05-01
The Bullfighters
Overview: Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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Time Out for Rhythm
1941-06-05
Time Out for Rhythm
Overview: A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-05
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The Chance of a Lifetime
1943-10-26
The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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The Phantom Thief
1946-05-02
The Phantom Thief
Overview: Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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Butch Minds the Baby
1942-03-20
Butch Minds the Baby
Overview: Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Dr. Broadway
1942-05-09
Dr. Broadway
Overview: A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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It Could Happen to You
1939-06-08
It Could Happen to You
Overview: In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-08
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Wise Girl
1937-12-31
Wise Girl
Overview: Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Drums of the Congo
1942-07-17
Drums of the Congo
Overview: A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-17
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Crashing Hollywood
1938-01-07
Crashing Hollywood
Overview: A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Flight from Glory
1937-08-20
Flight from Glory
Overview: Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Girl on the Spot
1946-01-11
Girl on the Spot
Overview: Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937-04-16
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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This Marriage Business
1938-04-08
This Marriage Business
Overview: A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-08
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Stronger Than Desire
1939-06-30
Stronger Than Desire
Overview: An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Sued for Libel
1939-10-27
Sued for Libel
Overview: A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Sioux City Sue
1946-11-21
Sioux City Sue
Overview: A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-21
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Many Unhappy Returns
1937-10-14
Many Unhappy Returns
Overview: Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-14
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Saturday's Heroes
1937-10-08
Saturday's Heroes
Overview: College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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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 Dummy Owner
1938-01-08
The Dummy Owner
Overview: Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1938-10-07
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Overview: A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Radio City Revels
1938-02-11
Radio City Revels
Overview: A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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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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Exposed
1938-11-05
Exposed
Overview: A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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Go Chase Yourself
1938-04-22
Go Chase Yourself
Overview: When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Union Pacific
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
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The Creeper
1948-09-01
The Creeper
Overview: Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Louisiana Hayride
1944-07-13
Louisiana Hayride
Overview: A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-13
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What a Blonde
1945-02-03
What a Blonde
Overview: American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-03
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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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Blind Alibi
1938-05-20
Blind Alibi
Overview: A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Everybody's Doing It
1938-01-14
Everybody's Doing It
Overview: Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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There Goes My Girl
1937-05-21
There Goes My Girl
Overview: Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Slightly Terrific
1944-04-01
Slightly Terrific
Overview: A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Hot Water
1946-07-25
Hot Water
Overview: Gus and Dick find themselves in trouble when they fall into possession of a necklace, not realizing it was left over from a jewel robbery, and also must hide a woman, who is actually part of the robbery, from their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Wedding Belle
1947-08-09
Wedding Belle
Overview: As if Dick's marriage wasn't in enough trouble, an ex-girlfriend returns to town with her sights set on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-09
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Two Nuts in a Rut
1948-02-10
Two Nuts in a Rut
Overview: Hollywood producer Richard Lane needs a rest and he and his assistant, Gus Schilling, decide that Florida would be an ideal place far-removed from the hustle-and-bustle of Hollywood...and aspiring actresses. Lane's wife is not thrilled to have him that far out of her sight, mostly because of aspiring actresses. Once they arrive at the Florida resort, they quickly encounter the same situations they fled California to avoid, and Lane is in a very sticky situation when his wife follows him to Florida.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-10
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Pardon My Lamb Chop
1948-06-10
Pardon My Lamb Chop
Overview: This Columbia All Star Comedy (production number 9427) finds Gus Shilling discovering that a cranky wife (Dorothy Granger) isn't the worst thing after shell-shocked veteran Dick Lane shows up. Gus invites him to a lamb-chop breakfast---not an appealing breakfast to begin with---and learns that the sound of a whistle sets bells ringing in Dick's head. Whistles, from one source or another, including Gus' wife who isn't all that thrilled about Dick coming to breakfast, start and Dick goes crazy. After a chase Gus is mistaken for the escaped insane man (Cy Shindell)from a local sanitarium and taken away by the doctors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-10
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Flung by a Fling
1949-05-12
Flung by a Fling
Overview: Gus and Dick, attending a war veterans' convention with their wives, run in to an old girlfriend there, and try to prevent her from meeting up with their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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He's in Again
1949-01-13
He's in Again
Overview: Gus, a cab driver is in love with the company owner's daughter, but mistakes Dick Lane a harmless, escaped asylum inmate, for the boss and takes him to lunch, and afterwards has the boss picked up as a mental case. Gus further maddens to boss by wrecking the cab.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-13
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The Cowboy and the Blonde
1941-05-16
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Overview: A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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Everybody's Dancin'
1950-03-31
Everybody's Dancin'
Overview: Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Kansas City Bomber
1972-08-02
Kansas City Bomber
Overview: Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-02
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Ain't Love Cuckoo?
1946-06-06
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
Overview: Gus Schilling and Richard Lane are two GIs serving overseas during World War II, and they get word that their wives, also in the U. S. military service, are missing. Meanwhile, the two wives get the same information about the husband of each. Time passes, and Gus, the widower, meets Richard's wife, the widow, and vice-versa and Gus marries Richard's wife and Richard marries Gus's wife, and all is well until they go on their honeymoons and stay at the same hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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The Life of the Party
1937-09-03
The Life of the Party
Overview: A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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The Escape
1939-10-05
The Escape
Overview: An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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You Can't Buy Luck
1937-04-30
You Can't Buy Luck
Overview: When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Overview: Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-22
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New Faces of 1937
1937-07-02
New Faces of 1937
Overview: A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Song of Scheherazade
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Hired Wife
Overview: Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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The Penalty
1941-03-13
The Penalty
Overview: In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-13
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News Is Made at Night
1939-07-20
News Is Made at Night
Overview: Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939-07-31
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Overview: Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-31
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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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Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
1936-08-21
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
Overview: Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
1941-02-07
Ride, Kelly, Ride
Overview: A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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Two Girls on Broadway
1940-04-19
Two Girls on Broadway
Overview: Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Out of the Blue
1947-04-21
Out of the Blue
Overview: Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-21
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Air Force
1943-03-20
Air Force
Overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Genres: Action Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Bermuda Mystery
1944-05-01
Bermuda Mystery
Overview: A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-01
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Tenth Avenue Angel
1948-02-20
Tenth Avenue Angel
Overview: Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-20
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War
1944-07-19
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Overview: Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-19
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Main Street Lawyer
1939-11-02
Main Street Lawyer
Overview: A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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The Biscuit Eater
1940-05-24
The Biscuit Eater
Overview: Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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Sandy Is a Lady
1940-05-21
Sandy Is a Lady
Overview: Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-21
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His Exciting Night
1938-11-11
His Exciting Night
Overview: A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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For Love or Money
1939-04-27
For Love or Money
Overview: To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-27
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Take It Big
1944-06-09
Take It Big
Overview: Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
1944-10-07
A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Overview: Henny Brown, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes Broadway show understudies Judy and Marian, for stars Betty and Eileen, and signs them up for movies. Margaret, furious with Henny for the blunder, fires him---but only temporarily. Another agent, Marty Allen, once married to and still in love with Margaret, signs Betty and Eileen. Henny arrives with Judy and Marian, and the nightclub manager asks Henny to emcee the show. Though he is not sure himself what they can do, Henny introduces the girls and they make a hit in a dramatic sketch. Big-time movie producer R. J. signs them to a film contract. Judy joins the WAVES, Marian the WACS and Marty the Marines and all have two weeks before induction, and that is more than long enough to shoot a Monogram musical-within-a-Monogram musical and have a few days to spare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-07
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941-03-14
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Overview: Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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There's a Girl in My Heart
1949-12-19
There's a Girl in My Heart
Overview: A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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Navy Blues
1941-09-13
Navy Blues
Overview: On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-13
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943-09-25
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951-04-05
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Overview: A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Unexpected Father
1939-06-14
Unexpected Father
Overview: Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-14
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1941-10-09
Riders of the Purple Sage
Overview: Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a young George Kennedy as Lassiter.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Drunk Driving
1939-10-28
Drunk Driving
Overview: In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Respect the Law
1941-01-04
Respect the Law
Overview: Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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Free, Blonde and 21
1940-03-28
Free, Blonde and 21
Overview: Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-28
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Wonder Man
1945-06-08
Wonder Man
Overview: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-08
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942-02-13
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Overview: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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For the Love of Pete
1936-03-14
For the Love of Pete
Overview: Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-14
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Punch and Beauty
1936-08-15
Punch and Beauty
Overview: Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-15
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Pardon My Terror
1946-09-12
Pardon My Terror
Overview: Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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Ears of Experience
1938-01-28
Ears of Experience
Overview: In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Super-Sleuth
1937-07-16
Super-Sleuth
Overview: A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Quicksand
1950-03-24
Quicksand
Overview: Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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The Jitters
1938-07-01
The Jitters
Overview: When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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I'm from the City
1938-08-05
I'm from the City
Overview: Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Bowery to Broadway
1944-11-03
Bowery to Broadway
Overview: Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-03
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To the Shores of Tripoli
1942-11-09
To the Shores of Tripoli
Overview: Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-09
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Swing Your Partner
1943-05-20
Swing Your Partner
Overview: Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-20
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Miss Mink of 1949
1949-02-11
Miss Mink of 1949
Overview: Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Corvette K-225
1943-09-29
Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Crazy House
1943-10-08
Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Brazil
1944-11-30
Brazil
Overview: Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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The Saint in New York
1938-05-25
The Saint in New York
Overview: A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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The Woman I Love
1937-04-15
The Woman I Love
Overview: In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-15
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Joy of Living
1938-05-06
Joy of Living
Overview: Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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It Ain't Hay
1943-03-10
It Ain't Hay
Overview: Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Here Come the Co-eds
1945-02-02
Here Come the Co-eds
Overview: Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-02
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The Babe Ruth Story
1948-09-16
The Babe Ruth Story
Overview: The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-16
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The Last Warning
1938-12-07
The Last Warning
Overview: In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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San Antonio Rose
1941-06-20
San Antonio Rose
Overview: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946-10-05
Gentleman Joe Palooka
Overview: In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-05
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Gung Ho!
1943-12-20
Gung Ho!
Overview: A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-20
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Hero for a Day
1939-10-06
Hero for a Day
Overview: When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Should Wives Work?
1937-09-10
Should Wives Work?
Overview: Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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High Blood Pleasure
1945-12-06
High Blood Pleasure
Overview: To avoid getting a speeding ticket, Gus poses as a doctor rushing a patient to the hospital for surgery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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Training for Trouble
1947-07-03
Training for Trouble
Overview: Two unemployed vaudeville hoofers land a job in a show and learn that the leading man is their downstairs neighbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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I Wanted Wings
1941-03-26
I Wanted Wings
Overview: Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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For Beauty's Sake
1941-06-06
For Beauty's Sake
Overview: A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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