Larry McGrath
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 28, 1888
Deathday: July 06, 1960
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The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Hard to Handle
1933-01-28
Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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The Shadow of Silk Lennox
1935-12-11
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
Overview: A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-11
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Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates
Overview: Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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The Big Fight
1930-05-11
The Big Fight
Overview: Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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The Personality Kid
1934-06-06
The Personality Kid
Overview: An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-06
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Dangerous
1935-12-25
Dangerous
Overview: Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Sworn Enemy
1936-09-11
Sworn Enemy
Overview: A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Stars Over Broadway
1935-11-23
Stars Over Broadway
Overview: An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-23
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Fifth Avenue Girl
1939-09-22
Fifth Avenue Girl
Overview: A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Thunder Afloat
1939-09-15
Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Golden Boy
1939-09-05
Golden Boy
Overview: Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-05
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Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
Sergeant Madden
Overview: A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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On Patrol
1922-03-12
On Patrol
Overview: Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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Sister Kenny
1946-10-10
Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
Deadline at Dawn
Overview: A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-18
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White Heat
1949-09-02
White Heat
Overview: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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A Prohibition Monkey
1920-09-13
A Prohibition Monkey
Overview: The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-13
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20 Mule Team
1940-05-03
20 Mule Team
Overview: It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-03
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20 Mule Team
1940-05-03
20 Mule Team
Overview: It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-03
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Punch Drunks
1934-07-13
Punch Drunks
Overview: Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Tin Pan Alley
Overview: Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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You'll Find Out
1940-11-22
You'll Find Out
Overview: The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
Genres: Comedy Horror Romance Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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Primrose Path
1940-03-22
Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12
Millionaires in Prison
Overview: A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Over the Wall
1938-04-02
Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943-06-29
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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The Girl on the Front Page
1936-09-26
The Girl on the Front Page
Overview: The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-26
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Riders of the Purple Cows
1924-10-18
Riders of the Purple Cows
Overview: When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-18
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The Miracle Kid
1941-11-14
The Miracle Kid
Overview: A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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The Arizona Kid
1930-03-23
The Arizona Kid
Overview: The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
Genres: Romance Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-23
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Dames
1934-09-01
Dames
Overview: A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Doorway to Hell
1930-10-18
The Doorway to Hell
Overview: A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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Public Hero Number 1
1935-05-31
Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Johnny Belinda
1948-09-14
Johnny Belinda
Overview: A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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The Great Jewel Robber
1950-07-15
The Great Jewel Robber
Overview: Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-15
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Special Agent
1935-09-14
Special Agent
Overview: Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
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Bullets or Ballots
1936-06-06
Bullets or Ballots
Overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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Manhattan Melodrama
1934-05-04
Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Knockout Reilly
1927-04-16
Knockout Reilly
Overview: A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-16
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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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Central Park
1932-12-10
Central Park
Overview: Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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Flaming Feather
1952-02-01
Flaming Feather
Overview: A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936-10-01
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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King of Chinatown
1939-03-17
King of Chinatown
Overview: A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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