Wade Boteler
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wade Boteler (October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943. He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. On Broadway, Boteler appeared in the play The Silent Voice (1914).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 02, 1888
Deathday: May 07, 1943
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The Richest Girl in the World
1934-09-21
The Richest Girl in the World
Overview: Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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Shakedown
1936-07-17
Shakedown
Overview: A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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The Hidden Hand
1942-11-07
The Hidden Hand
Overview: Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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That's My Baby
1926-04-19
That's My Baby
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with women, an hour he meets pretty Helen Raynor, who takes to him (and is also his business rival's daughter). Helen's mother, though, doesn't take to Alan at all. In addition, Schuyler Van Loon, who is also after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain--he comes up with a "baby" he claims is Alan's illegitimate son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-19
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Let It Rain
1927-02-12
Let It Rain
Overview: Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-12
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It Started with Eve
1941-09-26
It Started with Eve
Overview: A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Soft Cushions
1927-08-27
Soft Cushions
Overview: Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-27
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Charlie Chan at the Circus
1936-03-27
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Overview: While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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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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While Satan Sleeps
1922-06-25
While Satan Sleeps
Overview: With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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She Done Him Wrong
1933-02-09
She Done Him Wrong
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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Murder on the Blackboard
1934-06-15
Murder on the Blackboard
Overview: There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Overview: A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-20
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Fifty Candles
1921-12-11
Fifty Candles
Overview: Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Silence
1931-08-29
Silence
Overview: A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-29
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Whipsaw
1935-12-18
Whipsaw
Overview: Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-18
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Ridin' Wild
1922-11-19
Ridin' Wild
Overview: Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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The Way of All Men
1930-09-03
The Way of All Men
Overview: A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississippi River levee breaks and causes flood havoc above and below.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-03
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Sporting Goods
1928-02-11
Sporting Goods
Overview: Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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Humanity
1933-03-03
Humanity
Overview: A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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Deserted at the Altar
1922-12-01
Deserted at the Altar
Overview: Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-01
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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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All for Nothing
1928-01-21
All for Nothing
Overview: Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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Kathleen
1941-12-18
Kathleen
Overview: Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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Marriage in Transit
1925-03-29
Marriage in Transit
Overview: A gang of crooks led by Holden steals a government code, and Cyril Gordon, a Secret Service agent who bears a strong resemblance to the gang leader, is assigned to recover the stolen documents.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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The Howards of Virginia
1940-09-19
The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Goin' to Town
1935-04-25
Goin' to Town
Overview: Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-25
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Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
Blackwell's Island
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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Escape from Crime
1942-07-25
Escape from Crime
Overview: An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-25
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Billy The Kid Returns
1938-09-04
Billy The Kid Returns
Overview: After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
Genres: Action Western Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Find the Blackmailer
1943-11-06
Find the Blackmailer
Overview: A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-06
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Bird of Paradise
1932-08-12
Bird of Paradise
Overview: When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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Helldorado
1935-01-05
Helldorado
Overview: Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-05
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Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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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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The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
The President's Mystery
Overview: The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-28
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Frisco Kid
1935-11-30
Frisco Kid
Overview: After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-30
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Change of Heart
1938-01-14
Change of Heart
Overview: While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Southward Ho!
1939-03-19
Southward Ho!
Overview: Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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Air Mail
1932-11-03
Air Mail
Overview: A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-03
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The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Manhattan Tower
1932-12-01
Manhattan Tower
Overview: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925-10-19
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-19
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Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
Exclusive Story
Overview: A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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The Leather Necker
1935-05-08
The Leather Necker
Overview: Harry and his ex-sergeant recall their rivalry over the same girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-08
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The Fainting Lover
1931-08-15
The Fainting Lover
Overview: This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting the daughter of Andy Clyde and Addie McPhail, and Andy reminds him that he shouldn't take her for granted, especially at a gathering where Dr. Dudley Smith, accomplished musician, artist, sportsman, lecturer, world traveler, singer, dancer and worker of cross-word puzzles, is putting heavy moves on Helen, Bert's intended. Bert allows as how he'll do something special for her on her birthday coming up next month. The something special ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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The Last Ride
1944-10-07
The Last Ride
Overview: A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-07
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52nd Street
1937-11-19
52nd Street
Overview: The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Country Gentlemen
1936-11-08
Country Gentlemen
Overview: After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-08
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938-12-02
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Overview: Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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23 1/2 Hours' Leave
1919-11-16
23 1/2 Hours' Leave
Overview: Brash young Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can have breakfast with his commanding general. But a couple of enemy spies, intent on infiltrating the training camp, get in the way of Sgt. Gray's plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Melody Trail
1935-10-21
Melody Trail
Overview: Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935-09-27
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Overview: A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-27
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Let 'Er Go Gallegher
1928-01-14
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
Overview: Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-14
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Red Barry
1938-10-18
Red Barry
Overview: A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937-04-05
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Overview: Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-05
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Youth on Parole
1937-10-04
Youth on Parole
Overview: Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-04
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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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Midnight Daddies
1930-10-03
Midnight Daddies
Overview: Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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Winds of Chance
1925-08-15
Winds of Chance
Overview: A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-15
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The Ice Follies of 1939
1939-03-10
The Ice Follies of 1939
Overview: Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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24 Hours
1931-10-03
24 Hours
Overview: A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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Reckless
1935-04-19
Reckless
Overview: A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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The Marines Are Here
1938-06-08
The Marines Are Here
Overview: A cocky young Marine who's alienated many of his fellow soldiers with his smart-aleck, wiseguy attitude gets a "wake-up call" when his unit comes under attack by bandits.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-08
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Topper Takes a Trip
1938-12-29
Topper Takes a Trip
Overview: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Hello, Everybody!
1933-02-17
Hello, Everybody!
Overview: The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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Lawyer Man
1932-12-24
Lawyer Man
Overview: Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Spring Parade
1940-09-27
Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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College Lovers
1930-10-05
College Lovers
Overview: Romance on a college campus.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-05
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Hello, Sister!
1933-04-14
Hello, Sister!
Overview: Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Navy Blues
1929-12-20
Navy Blues
Overview: On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-20
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Soldiers and Women
1930-04-30
Soldiers and Women
Overview: Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-30
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My Favorite Blonde
1942-04-02
My Favorite Blonde
Overview: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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The Last Edition
1925-11-08
The Last Edition
Overview: A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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Call of the Wild
1935-08-09
Call of the Wild
Overview: Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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The Frame-Up
1937-05-02
The Frame-Up
Overview: A detective investigates a racing scam.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-02
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Don't Shoot
1922-08-21
Don't Shoot
Overview: Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
The Gay Deception
Overview: A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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The Cup of Fury
1920-01-01
The Cup of Fury
Overview: Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Single Standard
1929-07-27
The Single Standard
Overview: A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-27
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The Painted Desert
1931-01-18
The Painted Desert
Overview: Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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A Man's Game
1934-06-16
A Man's Game
Overview: During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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Television Spy
1939-10-20
Television Spy
Overview: A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
1928-01-15
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Overview: During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Water, Water, Everywhere
1920-02-08
Water, Water, Everywhere
Overview: Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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Penrod and Sam
1931-10-01
Penrod and Sam
Overview: Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Close Harmony
1929-04-12
Close Harmony
Overview: Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-12
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Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
Eyes of the Underworld
Overview: Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Derelict
1930-11-22
Derelict
Overview: Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Strange Alibi
1941-04-19
Strange Alibi
Overview: An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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Young Buffalo Bill
1940-04-11
Young Buffalo Bill
Overview: It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-11
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Unknown Valley
1933-05-05
Unknown Valley
Overview: Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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Big News
1929-09-06
Big News
Overview: A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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Top Speed
1930-08-24
Top Speed
Overview: An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Local Boy Makes Good
1931-11-27
Local Boy Makes Good
Overview: John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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The Flying Fleet
1929-01-19
The Flying Fleet
Overview: Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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The New Half Back
1929-11-24
The New Half Back
Overview: Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23
Alibi for Murder
Overview: A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934-04-18
A Very Honorable Guy
Overview: Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Music Is Magic
1935-11-01
Music Is Magic
Overview: An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Baby Face Harrington
1935-04-12
Baby Face Harrington
Overview: Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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Streamline Express
1935-09-15
Streamline Express
Overview: A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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College Humor
1933-07-05
College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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Freckles
1935-09-20
Freckles
Overview: A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Bombay Clipper
1942-01-11
Bombay Clipper
Overview: Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-11
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Through the Dark
1924-01-06
Through the Dark
Overview: Through the Dark is a 1924 silent mystery drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It is based on a short story "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" by Jack Boyle
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Poker Widows
1931-09-13
Poker Widows
Overview: Dance instructor Arthur Stone's wife, Gertrude Astor, is a jealous woman. Patsy O'Leary's husband, Wade Boteler, is a jealous man. Boteler goes out to play poker every night, so Miss O'Leary phones Stone for a private dance lesson at her apartment. When there's a knock at the door, Stone goes out the window and enters an apartment, where Boteler is playing poker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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King for a Night
1933-12-09
King for a Night
Overview: A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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Girls on Probation
1938-10-22
Girls on Probation
Overview: A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-22
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Buck Rogers
1939-04-10
Buck Rogers
Overview: Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-10
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On Your Toes
1939-10-14
On Your Toes
Overview: A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-14
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The Mysterious Miss X
1939-01-10
The Mysterious Miss X
Overview: After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Border Cafe
1937-06-04
Border Cafe
Overview: The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
Genres: Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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High School Hero
1927-10-16
High School Hero
Overview: Pete (Nick Stuart) and Bill (John Darrow) are childhood rivals who continue to feud in high school, especially when they both develop feelings for Eleanor Barrett (Sally Phipps). Their rivalry threatens to disrupt the school basketball team, but they eventually make amends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-16
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Cheers of the Crowd
1935-08-05
Cheers of the Crowd
Overview: To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939-02-10
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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The Oklahoma Kid
1939-03-11
The Oklahoma Kid
Overview: McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Overview: Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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East Side of Heaven
1939-04-07
East Side of Heaven
Overview: A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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They Shall Have Music
1939-08-18
They Shall Have Music
Overview: The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Genres: Family Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Moonlight in Havana
1942-10-16
Moonlight in Havana
Overview: A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him sick while featuring a host of musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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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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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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Chicken Wagon Family
1939-08-10
Chicken Wagon Family
Overview: Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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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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Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Days of Jesse James
1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James
Overview: Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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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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The Bride Walks Out
1936-07-10
The Bride Walks Out
Overview: Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Blackmail
1939-09-08
Blackmail
Overview: A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Dog Daze
1939-07-01
Dog Daze
Overview: The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-01
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Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16
Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Everything's on Ice
1939-10-05
Everything's on Ice
Overview: Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
Bad Little Angel
Overview: A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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A Man of Action
1923-06-03
A Man of Action
Overview: Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting. Instead, Bruce dons a disguise and infiltrates the San Francisco underworld. Mistaken for master criminal "The Chicago Kid", he finds himself leading the gang in a robbery of his own fortune in diamonds. Discovering Eugene's intention to steal the jewels for himself he engineers it so the loot changes hands many times. Getting wise, Helen summons the police, the criminals are apprehended, and she sees Bruce in a new light.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-03
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Women in Hiding
1940-06-22
Women in Hiding
Overview: In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Love Crazy
Overview: Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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Among the Missing
1934-09-25
Among the Missing
Overview: Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939-07-20
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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The Man in the Trunk
1942-09-19
The Man in the Trunk
Overview: The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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Emma
1932-01-02
Emma
Overview: After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Bordertown
1935-01-23
Bordertown
Overview: An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-23
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One Wild Night
1938-06-02
One Wild Night
Overview: Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940-12-24
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Overview: Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15
Young Tom Edison
Overview: Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940-05-02
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Overview: On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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Speed Madness
1932-07-29
Speed Madness
Overview: More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-29
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His Girl Friday
1940-01-18
His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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High Tension
1936-07-10
High Tension
Overview: Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Here Comes Trouble
1936-02-21
Here Comes Trouble
Overview: Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Duck Soup
1933-11-12
Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
Brother Rat and a Baby
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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The Green Hornet
1940-01-08
The Green Hornet
Overview: A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Genres: Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-08
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Fireman, Save My Child
1932-02-20
Fireman, Save My Child
Overview: Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-20
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The Body Disappears
1941-11-22
The Body Disappears
Overview: Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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Valley of the Giants
1938-09-17
Valley of the Giants
Overview: A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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A Fight to the Finish
1937-06-30
A Fight to the Finish
Overview: A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-30
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Missing Daughters
1939-05-22
Missing Daughters
Overview: The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Under Texas Skies
1940-09-29
Under Texas Skies
Overview: The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Gaucho Serenade
1940-05-09
Gaucho Serenade
Overview: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
My Little Chickadee
Overview: While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Fugitive Lady
1934-12-10
Fugitive Lady
Overview: In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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I Was Framed
1942-04-04
I Was Framed
Overview: A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Speed Demon
1932-11-11
Speed Demon
Overview: A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets him intoxicated before the race and he wrecks the boat. Now he has to make good and show he has the right stuff.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-11
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Love Is News
1937-02-26
Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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The Forest Rangers
1942-10-21
The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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Queen Christina
1933-12-26
Queen Christina
Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Code of the Streets
1939-04-13
Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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The Three Musketeers
1935-11-01
The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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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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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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Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
Dance, Girl, Dance
Overview: Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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'Til We Meet Again
1940-04-20
'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
Between Us Girls
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Three Faces West
1940-07-03
Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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The Unfoldment
1922-01-01
The Unfoldment
Overview: Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Love Thy Neighbor
1940-12-27
Love Thy Neighbor
Overview: Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Gambling Lady
1934-03-08
Gambling Lady
Overview: A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-08
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Havoc
1925-09-27
Havoc
Overview: A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter McGrail) at the dawn of The Great War. Both men are in love with the same woman, Violet Deering (Margaret Livingston). Chappell, whose proposal has been accepted by Violet, enlists for the war in Europe hoping to distinguish himself and make his fiancé proud of him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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Beyond Victory
1931-04-03
Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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You're a Sweetheart
1937-12-26
You're a Sweetheart
Overview: A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-26
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It Can't Last Forever
1937-07-15
It Can't Last Forever
Overview: Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Diamond Jim
1935-09-01
Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Ginger
1935-07-04
Ginger
Overview: Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-04
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Jackass Mail
1942-07-01
Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Two Alone
1934-01-26
Two Alone
Overview: Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Captain Hurricane
1935-03-01
Captain Hurricane
Overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Sinner Take All
1936-12-18
Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Lahoma
1920-08-20
Lahoma
Overview: In Oklahoma, kindhearted outlaw Brick Willock rescues little Lahoma Gledware and her father Henry from certain death at the hands of his outlaw band. In the course of the rescue, he kills Kansas Kimball, the brother of the outlaws' leader Red Kimball, who vows vengeance against Brick. Brick renounces his life of crime, and after Gledware relinquishes custody of his daughter to marry an Indian princess, the old cowboy gives refuge to the little girl, raising her with the help of neighbor Bill Atkins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-20
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Sabotage
1939-10-13
Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01
Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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The Singing Hill
1941-04-25
The Singing Hill
Overview: If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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Ducks and Drakes
1921-02-01
Ducks and Drakes
Overview: A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Kick In
1931-05-22
Kick In
Overview: Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Carnival
1935-02-15
Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Death Kiss
1932-12-05
The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941-01-14
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Overview: Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-14
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At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
1922-01-22
At the Sign of the Jack'O Lantern
Overview: When Harlan Carr inherited his Uncle Ebenezer's "Jack-O Lantern" house and too his bride there to live, he found himself the unwilling host of a score of hungry relatives within a week. Soon, strange things began to happen. A black cat made the house his headquarters, unexplained sounds could be heard and a shadowy figure floated through the halls at night.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-22
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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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Don Winslow of the Navy
1942-01-06
Don Winslow of the Navy
Overview: A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Way Back Home
1931-11-13
Way Back Home
Overview: A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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Blonde Crazy
1931-09-16
Blonde Crazy
Overview: Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-16
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A Star Is Born
1937-04-27
A Star Is Born
Overview: Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-27
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Men of Boys Town
1941-04-11
Men of Boys Town
Overview: Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Melody in Spring
1934-04-07
Melody in Spring
Overview: It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Double Alibi
1940-03-01
Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Possessed
1931-11-21
Possessed
Overview: Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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Front Page Woman
1935-07-11
Front Page Woman
Overview: Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-11
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Human Cargo
1936-05-15
Human Cargo
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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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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The Secret Code
1942-09-04
The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Pacific Blackout
1941-12-31
Pacific Blackout
Overview: Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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High School
1940-01-26
High School
Overview: A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Off the Record
1939-01-21
Off the Record
Overview: After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
The Walking Dead
Overview: Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Silver Dollar
1932-12-22
Silver Dollar
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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I Wake Up Screaming
1941-10-31
I Wake Up Screaming
Overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Mississippi Gambler
1942-04-17
Mississippi Gambler
Overview: A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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The Crash
1928-10-07
The Crash
Overview: The Crash (1928)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-07
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Come on Danger!
1932-09-23
Come on Danger!
Overview: Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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The Great Hospital Mystery
1937-05-14
The Great Hospital Mystery
Overview: A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Just Married
1928-08-18
Just Married
Overview: After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937-12-31
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Overview: A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Toilers
1928-10-01
The Toilers
Overview: The Toilers (1928)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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Going Up
1923-09-30
Going Up
Overview: Going Up (1923)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Blind Hearts
1921-10-03
Blind Hearts
Overview: In 1898 friends John Thomas and Lars Larson travel to the Yukon with their wives to make their fortunes. While in Alaska Thomas' wife gives birth to a boy, and Larson's wife has a girl, Julia. However, Larson spots a birthmark on his daughter's shoulder that resembles one on Thomas' shoulder, and he begins to suspect that he may not actually be the girl's father. Over the next 20 years the two become millionaires, but Larson's wife dies. Julia and Thomas fall in love and wish to marry, but Larson is determined to oppose it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-03
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Mannequin
1938-01-21
Mannequin
Overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-21
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932-05-28
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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In Old Chicago
1936-01-09
In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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Wild Boys of the Road
1933-10-07
Wild Boys of the Road
Overview: At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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Captain Kidd's Treasure
1938-01-22
Captain Kidd's Treasure
Overview: In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-22
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Know Your Money
1940-01-27
Know Your Money
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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The Kennel Murder Case
1933-10-28
The Kennel Murder Case
Overview: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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The Big Game
1936-10-09
The Big Game
Overview: A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Chained
1934-08-31
Chained
Overview: Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941-01-03
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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The Devil's Holiday
1930-05-09
The Devil's Holiday
Overview: Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-09
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The Baby Cyclone
1928-09-26
The Baby Cyclone
Overview: A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-26
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The Rage of Paris
1938-06-09
The Rage of Paris
Overview: Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-09
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The Human Side
1934-09-01
The Human Side
Overview: The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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An Old Fashioned Boy
1920-10-31
An Old Fashioned Boy
Overview: David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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Highway West
1941-08-07
Highway West
Overview: A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Operator 13
1934-06-08
Operator 13
Overview: American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
Rulers of the Sea
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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We Who Are Young
1940-07-19
We Who Are Young
Overview: A man violates company policy by getting married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
1940-03-15
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Overview: In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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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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Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
Hit the Ice
Overview: After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-02
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The Merry Frinks
1934-05-26
The Merry Frinks
Overview: An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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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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The Whipping Boss
1924-02-09
The Whipping Boss
Overview: Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-09
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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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Second Hand Rose
1922-05-08
Second Hand Rose
Overview: The adopted Irish daughter of the Rosensteins, Second Avenue pawnshop owners, Rose is much sought after by Tim McCarthy, a wealthy Irish contractor many years her senior. Meanwhile, Nat, her adopted brother, is accused of stealing from his firm and is arrested and put in jail; Rosenstein, heartbroken, becomes seriously ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-08
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You Only Live Once
1937-01-23
You Only Live Once
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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The Phantom Horseman
1924-03-03
The Phantom Horseman
Overview: Sheriff Bob Winton sets out to capture a mysterious bandit named "The Hawk," a phantom rider who is admired by the townspeople, because he steals from the Williams Lumber Co., a ruthless outfit determined to own all the land in the vicinity. This is a lost film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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End of the Trail
1932-12-19
End of the Trail
Overview: Framed by Major Jenkins, Capt. Travers is kicked out of the Army. When Travers, now living with the Indians, is captured by Jenkins, the Indians attack the fort. With his men greatly outnumbered Colonel Burke realizes that Travers is their only chance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-19
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The Home Stretch
1921-04-23
The Home Stretch
Overview: Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he will win big, Hardwick ruins his chance by saving a little girl who has run out onto the track. The child's father shows his gratitude later on when he offers Hardwick a job as a clerk in his hotel -- Hardwick has been forced to flee after a fight in a roadhouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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Invisible Stripes
1939-12-30
Invisible Stripes
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Hold 'Em Navy
1937-11-04
Hold 'Em Navy
Overview: Two football players fight over the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08
Footsteps in the Dark
Overview: A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-08
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She Couldn't Help It
1920-12-14
She Couldn't Help It
Overview: Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping him steal a jewel from Edward Ramsey at Union Station.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-14
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933-02-18
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Overview: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Little Miss Roughneck
1938-01-23
Little Miss Roughneck
Overview: Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-23
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The False Road
1920-04-18
The False Road
Overview: Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves headed by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after having served a two-year sentence. He has learned his lesson and vows to leave his life of crime, but his girlfriend Betty Palmer--also a member of the gang--won't leave "the false road".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-04-18
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Ambush
1939-01-20
Ambush
Overview: Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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The Leatherneck
1929-02-24
The Leatherneck
Overview: A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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Timber!
1942-08-01
Timber!
Overview: Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Fly By Night
1942-01-19
Fly By Night
Overview: Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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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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Laugh and Get Rich
1931-03-27
Laugh and Get Rich
Overview: An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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Charlie Chan's Courage
1934-07-06
Charlie Chan's Courage
Overview: Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-06
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The Headline Woman
1935-05-14
The Headline Woman
Overview: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-14
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Hot Steel
1940-05-24
Hot Steel
Overview: Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The Leather Pushers
1940-09-13
The Leather Pushers
Overview: A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Ski Patrol
1940-05-09
Ski Patrol
Overview: In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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Sadie McKee
1934-05-09
Sadie McKee
Overview: A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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Parnell
1937-06-04
Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Made on Broadway
1933-05-19
Made on Broadway
Overview: A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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Hold Your Man
1933-06-30
Hold Your Man
Overview: Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Bed of Roses
1933-06-29
Bed of Roses
Overview: A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-29
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Dynamite
1929-12-13
Dynamite
Overview: Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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Let's Be Fashionable
1920-06-13
Let's Be Fashionable
Overview: A nice young couple moves to a community where the bonds of matrimony are not held in much respect and where it is fashionable to carry on with one that is not one's spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-13
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