Charles McAvoy
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Birthday: April 02, 1885
Deathday: April 20, 1953
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Known For
The Bridge of Sighs
1936-02-14
The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Lady for a Day
1933-09-13
Lady for a Day
Overview: Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-13
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When the Wind Blows
1930-04-05
When the Wind Blows
Overview: Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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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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Wedding Present
1936-10-09
Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Midnight Mary
1933-06-30
Midnight Mary
Overview: While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1942-02-02
A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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King of the Turf
1939-02-17
King of the Turf
Overview: Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Dragnet Patrol
1931-12-14
Dragnet Patrol
Overview: A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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Carnival Lady
1933-11-11
Carnival Lady
Overview: When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25
Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Love on Tap
1939-03-18
Love on Tap
Overview: In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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The Shrimp
1930-05-03
The Shrimp
Overview: A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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The King
1930-06-14
The King
Overview: The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns, drilling his soldiers, and dallying with the wife of a new minister. The queen catches him kissing her, her husband figures out that something fishy is going on, and the king tries his best to proceed with his plans for a night out. The queen contrives to keep him cuffed in the bedroom: king, queen, minister, and coquette end up in a game of musical beds. Will his royal highness get his night out?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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The Big Kick
1930-03-29
The Big Kick
Overview: Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Pot o' Gold
1941-04-03
Pot o' Gold
Overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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I'll Be Suing You
1934-06-23
I'll Be Suing You
Overview: Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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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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The Defense Rests
1934-07-15
The Defense Rests
Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24
Strike Me Pink
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934-01-12
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Overview: Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Let Us Live
1939-03-29
Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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The Man They Could Not Hang
1939-08-17
The Man They Could Not Hang
Overview: Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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The Dark Mirror
1946-10-17
The Dark Mirror
Overview: A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Shivering Shakespeare
1930-01-25
Shivering Shakespeare
Overview: The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-25
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939-10-26
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Overview: A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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X Marks the Spot
1942-11-04
X Marks the Spot
Overview: A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-04
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The Gas Station
1930-03-29
The Gas Station
Overview: Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Woman in Hiding
1950-01-06
Woman in Hiding
Overview: As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Below the Deadline
1936-06-07
Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932-11-09
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Overview: A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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The Sea of Grass
1947-04-25
The Sea of Grass
Overview: On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Little Nellie Kelly
1940-11-22
Little Nellie Kelly
Overview: Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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Hazard
1948-05-28
Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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The Mad Doctor
1940-12-20
The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Rhythm on the River
1940-08-28
Rhythm on the River
Overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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Dark Streets of Cairo
1940-12-01
Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Women Without Names
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
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Junior G-Men
1940-11-01
Junior G-Men
Overview: A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Murder at the Vanities
1934-05-18
Murder at the Vanities
Overview: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Anything for a Thrill
1937-06-15
Anything for a Thrill
Overview: Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-15
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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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That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31
That Girl from Paris
Overview: Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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Cipher Bureau
1938-10-25
Cipher Bureau
Overview: The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-25
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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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Those Who Dance
1930-04-18
Those Who Dance
Overview: A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-18
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Captive Wild Woman
1943-06-04
Captive Wild Woman
Overview: An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-04
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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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Top Man
1943-09-17
Top Man
Overview: In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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Maid of Salem
1937-02-12
Maid of Salem
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Badge of Honor
1934-04-01
Badge of Honor
Overview: Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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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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No Way Out
1950-08-16
No Way Out
Overview: Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Take One False Step
1949-08-14
Take One False Step
Overview: Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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Strange Holiday
1945-10-19
Strange Holiday
Overview: An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Shoot the Works
1934-07-18
Shoot the Works
Overview: The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-18
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The Velvet Touch
1948-07-13
The Velvet Touch
Overview: After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-13
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Honky Donkey
1934-06-02
Honky Donkey
Overview: Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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