Jonathan Hale
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley, March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Corps. Hale is most well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the Blondie film series in the 1940s. He is also notable for playing Inspector Fernack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures. In 1950 he made two appearances in The Cisco Kid as Barry Owens. He also appeared in two different episodes of Adventures of Superman: "The Evil Three", in which he played a murderous "Southern Colonel"-type character, and "Panic in the Sky", one of the most famous episodes, in which he played the lead astronomer at the Metropolis Observatory, actually a California observatory. Among the relatively few television programs on which Hale appeared are the religion anthology series Crossroads, The Loretta Young Show, Brave Eagle, Schlitz Playhouse, The Joey Bishop Show, and Walt Disney Presents: "A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris". Hale committed suicide on February 28, 1966. He was found dead that evening in his room at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Hale had taken his own life with a .38 caliber pistol, which was found near his body. He was 74. Hale was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California. Sadly, Hale's grave went unmarked for more than four decades, until a proper headstone was erected by donations from the "Dearly Departed" fan-based group in 2013; he is now honored with the inscription, "We Remembered You".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 20, 1891
Deathday: February 28, 1966
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Blondie
1938-11-30
Blondie
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939-11-08
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Overview: Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940-07-25
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Overview: Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-25
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Blondie in Society
1941-07-17
Blondie in Society
Overview: Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-17
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Blondie Plays Cupid
1940-10-31
Blondie Plays Cupid
Overview: The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-31
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Blondie Goes to College
1942-01-15
Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Blondie Meets the Boss
1939-03-08
Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Blondie for Victory
1942-08-06
Blondie for Victory
Overview: Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Blondie Goes Latin
1941-02-27
Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Blondie Knows Best
1946-10-17
Blondie Knows Best
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Footlight Glamour
1943-09-30
Footlight Glamour
Overview: Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-30
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It's a Great Life
1943-05-27
It's a Great Life
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-27
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Life with Blondie
1945-12-13
Life with Blondie
Overview: Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-13
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Blondie's Blessed Event
1942-04-09
Blondie's Blessed Event
Overview: Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-09
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Leave It to Blondie
1945-02-22
Leave It to Blondie
Overview: Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Blondie's Lucky Day
1946-04-04
Blondie's Lucky Day
Overview: Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the attention paid to Dagwood by pretty WAC Mary Jane McDermott. A whiz in business matters, Mary Jane sets up Dag in his own business, which replenishes the Bumstead coffers but which drives Blondie into a jealous frenzy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
Strangers on a Train
Overview: Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Jack London
1943-12-24
Jack London
Overview: The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Steel Trap
1952-11-12
The Steel Trap
Overview: Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-12
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Nobody's Darling
1943-08-27
Nobody's Darling
Overview: Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937-05-21
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Overview: Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Scandal Sheet
1952-01-16
Scandal Sheet
Overview: A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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Charlie Chan's Secret
1936-01-10
Charlie Chan's Secret
Overview: Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936-08-07
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Overview: When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-07
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High Wall
1947-12-17
High Wall
Overview: Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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Triple Trouble
1950-08-13
Triple Trouble
Overview: Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-13
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The Great Swindle
1941-04-10
The Great Swindle
Overview: In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-10
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Boys Town
1938-09-08
Boys Town
Overview: Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-08
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The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945-01-12
The Strange Mr. Gregory
Overview: The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall, the husband of Ellen, the woman Gregory loves.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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The Baron of Arizona
1950-03-04
The Baron of Arizona
Overview: The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
Genres: Romance Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-04
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End of the Road
1944-11-10
End of the Road
Overview: A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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The Night Holds Terror
1955-07-13
The Night Holds Terror
Overview: A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-13
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36 Hours to Kill
1936-07-24
36 Hours to Kill
Overview: Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Alice Adams
1935-08-23
Alice Adams
Overview: In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Dead Man's Eyes
1944-11-10
Dead Man's Eyes
Overview: Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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The Saint's Double Trouble
1940-01-26
The Saint's Double Trouble
Overview: Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Saratoga
1937-07-23
Saratoga
Overview: A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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Disaster
1948-12-03
Disaster
Overview: A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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The Judge
1949-01-31
The Judge
Overview: A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-31
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The Saint in New York
1938-05-25
The Saint in New York
Overview: A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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The Saint Strikes Back
1939-03-08
The Saint Strikes Back
Overview: Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939-04-04
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Overview: Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-04
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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 Ghost Goes Wild
1947-08-08
The Ghost Goes Wild
Overview: Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-08
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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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The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07
The Saint Takes Over
Overview: The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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The Saint In Palm Springs
1941-01-24
The Saint In Palm Springs
Overview: George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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The Beginning or the End
1947-02-19
The Beginning or the End
Overview: The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
Genres: Drama Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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Flight Lieutenant
1942-07-09
Flight Lieutenant
Overview: A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-09
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946-06-07
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Overview: A PI investigates a priest's murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
Cattle Queen of Montana
Overview: Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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The Rear Gunner
1943-04-10
The Rear Gunner
Overview: Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-10
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Wife Wanted
1946-11-02
Wife Wanted
Overview: Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-02
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Sea Devils
1937-02-19
Sea Devils
Overview: Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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State Department: File 649
1949-02-11
State Department: File 649
Overview: Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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Hit-and-Run Driver
1935-12-28
Hit-and-Run Driver
Overview: A man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-28
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Over the Wall
1938-04-02
Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Insurance Investigator
1951-03-23
Insurance Investigator
Overview: When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Danger – Love at Work
1937-09-30
Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Let's Go Navy!
1951-07-29
Let's Go Navy!
Overview: The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-29
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Racketeers in Exile
1937-03-30
Racketeers in Exile
Overview: In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-30
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Flight from Destiny
1941-02-08
Flight from Destiny
Overview: After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Divorce
1945-08-18
Divorce
Overview: A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-18
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The Duke of West Point
1938-12-29
The Duke of West Point
Overview: A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Miss Annie Rooney
1942-05-29
Miss Annie Rooney
Overview: A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Too Many Parents
1936-03-19
Too Many Parents
Overview: Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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Lightning Strikes Twice
1934-12-07
Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Duffy of San Quentin
1954-03-16
Duffy of San Quentin
Overview: San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936-05-08
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Overview: An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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The Flaming Urge
1953-09-27
The Flaming Urge
Overview: A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-27
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Happy Go Lucky
1936-12-13
Happy Go Lucky
Overview: A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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Tarnished Angel
1938-10-28
Tarnished Angel
Overview: A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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A Lost Lady
1934-09-29
A Lost Lady
Overview: A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-29
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In Old Monterey
1939-08-14
In Old Monterey
Overview: The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-14
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Man Alive
1945-11-16
Man Alive
Overview: A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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She's Dangerous
1937-01-24
She's Dangerous
Overview: A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-24
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Barricade
1939-12-08
Barricade
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Rolling Home
1946-11-01
Rolling Home
Overview: An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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John Meade's Woman
1937-02-26
John Meade's Woman
Overview: "Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Her Jungle Love
1938-04-15
Her Jungle Love
Overview: While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura.
Genres: Action Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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There's Something About a Soldier
1943-11-30
There's Something About a Soldier
Overview: Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Genres: Drama Action Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-30
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Judge Hardy's Children
1938-03-26
Judge Hardy's Children
Overview: Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Exiled to Shanghai
1937-12-20
Exiled to Shanghai
Overview: A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-20
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Son of Paleface
1952-07-14
Son of Paleface
Overview: Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-14
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Letter of Introduction
1938-08-05
Letter of Introduction
Overview: An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Breaking the Ice
1938-09-22
Breaking the Ice
Overview: The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Let 'em Have It
Overview: Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Gangs of New York
1938-05-23
Gangs of New York
Overview: An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-23
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The First Hundred Years
1938-03-12
The First Hundred Years
Overview: David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Wives Under Suspicion
1938-06-03
Wives Under Suspicion
Overview: A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Riverboat Rhythm
1946-02-16
Riverboat Rhythm
Overview: A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-16
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Rose of the Yukon
1949-01-05
Rose of the Yukon
Overview: Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter, Tom Clark, who was presumed to be dead as a member of a small force wiped out on Attu in World War II. With the aid of Rose Flambeau, he finds evidence that the now-prosperous Clark killed his own comrades to prevent their reporting of a deposit of uranium, which he is now mining with the intention of selling to a foreign power.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-05
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Fugitives for a Night
1938-09-23
Fugitives for a Night
Overview: A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Phantom Speaks
1945-04-13
The Phantom Speaks
Overview: The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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Sunny Side of the Street
1951-09-01
Sunny Side of the Street
Overview: A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Madame X
1937-10-01
Madame X
Overview: An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Taxi
1953-01-21
Taxi
Overview: A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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One New York Night
1935-03-08
One New York Night
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Road Demon
1938-12-02
Road Demon
Overview: At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Overview: Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-22
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Man Of The People
1937-01-27
Man Of The People
Overview: An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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In Name Only
1939-08-18
In Name Only
Overview: A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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The Man Who Found Himself
1937-04-02
The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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Spendthrift
1936-07-22
Spendthrift
Overview: A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
The Devil Is a Sissy
Overview: A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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There's That Woman Again
1938-12-24
There's That Woman Again
Overview: Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Rocky
1948-01-17
Rocky
Overview: Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of a local ranch. He and his ranch hand are searching for a wild dog that killed one of their sheep. They find the animal and kill it, along with one of its puppies, but after they leave Hammond and his son discover another puppy still alive. They take it home and call it Rocky. John believes that a dog descended from sheep-killers will himself become a sheep-killer someday, but e gives his son a chance to raise and train the dog, hoping that he can train the killer instinct from it. Unfortunately, local farmers have reported an epidemic of sheep-killings, and they suspect that Rocky is responsible for them.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-17
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Gentlemen Are Born
1934-11-17
Gentlemen Are Born
Overview: A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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Men with Wings
1938-07-16
Men with Wings
Overview: Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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The Black Parachute
1944-05-04
The Black Parachute
Overview: A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Stand Up and Fight
1939-01-06
Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Wings of the Navy
1939-02-11
Wings of the Navy
Overview: Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Tail Spin
1939-02-19
Tail Spin
Overview: Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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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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Kansas Pacific
1953-02-22
Kansas Pacific
Overview: Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-22
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Outcast
1937-02-05
Outcast
Overview: A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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You Can't Buy Luck
1937-04-30
You Can't Buy Luck
Overview: When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Behind Southern Lines
1952-11-02
Behind Southern Lines
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Wings Over Honolulu
1937-05-16
Wings Over Honolulu
Overview: A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-16
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943-10-01
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Overview: An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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Jaguar
1956-01-19
Jaguar
Overview: Oil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy of murder.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-19
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Dakota
1945-12-15
Dakota
Overview: In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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Her Husband's Affairs
1947-11-12
Her Husband's Affairs
Overview: Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-12
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Too Tough to Kill
1935-12-20
Too Tough to Kill
Overview: A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
Big Town Girl
Overview: When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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The Pittsburgh Kid
1941-08-29
The Pittsburgh Kid
Overview: Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Joe Smith, American
1942-02-01
Joe Smith, American
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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The Three Outlaws
1956-05-13
The Three Outlaws
Overview: Ready to quit their life of crime, the three "most-wanted" outlaws in the West---Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver ---perform their final job by robbing and stealing a train and fleeing across the border. In a South American town they begin their life of respectability by purchasing a ranch and depositing their stolen fortune in the local bank, and throwing a big fiesta to entertain the locals, including Colonel Aguilar and his beautiful daughter Rita.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-13
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My Buddy
1944-10-12
My Buddy
Overview: A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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G.I. Honeymoon
1945-04-06
G.I. Honeymoon
Overview: In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty. Later they try again, but as he has just completed a 37-mile hike, he finds himself too tired to work up any enthusiasm for conjugal bliss. Fortunately, the bride's understanding aunt intervenes with the young man's colonel and the frustrated couple is at last able to share a night of love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-06
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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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This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
This Is My Affair
Overview: President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-28
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951-07-15
Rodeo King and the Senorita
Overview: Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-15
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Three Live Ghosts
1936-01-10
Three Live Ghosts
Overview: Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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The Singing Kid
1936-04-10
The Singing Kid
Overview: Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Stampede
1949-05-01
Stampede
Overview: In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-01
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Black Gold
1947-09-16
Black Gold
Overview: A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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Easy to Wed
1946-07-25
Easy to Wed
Overview: When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Gay Blades
1946-01-25
Gay Blades
Overview: New York hockey player Andy Buell is approached by Hollywood talent scout Nancy Davis to play the hunk lead in "The Behemoth" but he would prefer she quit her job and become his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-25
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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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Short Grass
1950-12-24
Short Grass
Overview: Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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Lone Star Ranger
1942-03-20
Lone Star Ranger
Overview: Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Silver River
1948-05-20
Silver River
Overview: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-20
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942-08-01
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Overview: Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Call Northside 777
1948-02-13
Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Dulcy
1940-10-04
Dulcy
Overview: A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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A Night at the Opera
1935-11-15
A Night at the Opera
Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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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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A Night at the Ritz
1935-03-23
A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945-03-29
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Overview: Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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Housewife
1934-08-11
Housewife
Overview: Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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The Vigilantes Return
1947-05-31
The Vigilantes Return
Overview: Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.
Genres: Music Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-31
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Yellow Jack
1938-05-19
Yellow Jack
Overview: A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Genres: Drama History Mystery Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-19
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Midnight Madonna
1937-07-01
Midnight Madonna
Overview: A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Navy Wife
1935-09-17
Navy Wife
Overview: A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-17
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She Couldn't Say No
1954-02-15
She Couldn't Say No
Overview: An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-15
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This Is the Life
1944-06-01
This Is the Life
Overview: 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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Flying Hostess
1936-12-01
Flying Hostess
Overview: The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Bugle Sounds
1942-01-30
The Bugle Sounds
Overview: An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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Crime Ring
1938-07-08
Crime Ring
Overview: Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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The Cat Creeps
1946-05-17
The Cat Creeps
Overview: A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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Federal Agent at Large
1950-03-12
Federal Agent at Large
Overview: A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-12
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Her First Beau
1941-05-08
Her First Beau
Overview: 15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-08
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Melody and Moonlight
1940-10-10
Melody and Moonlight
Overview: Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bellboy Danny O'Brien (Johnny Downs). With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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3 Kids and a Queen
1935-10-21
3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Panic on the Air
1936-04-10
Panic on the Air
Overview: A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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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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Ringside Maisie
1941-08-01
Ringside Maisie
Overview: Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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The Case of the Howling Dog
1934-09-22
The Case of the Howling Dog
Overview: A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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'G' Men
1935-05-04
'G' Men
Overview: James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Public Hero Number 1
1935-05-31
Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935-12-10
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Overview: Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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You May Be Next!
1936-02-05
You May Be Next!
Overview: Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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If You Could Only Cook
1935-12-30
If You Could Only Cook
Overview: An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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The Raven
1935-07-08
The Raven
Overview: A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Educating Father
1936-05-23
Educating Father
Overview: Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936-02-15
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Overview: A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Hollywood Canteen
1944-12-15
Hollywood Canteen
Overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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The Fountainhead
1949-06-25
The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Johnny Belinda
1948-09-14
Johnny Belinda
Overview: A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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Angel on My Shoulder
1946-09-20
Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Young Man with Ideas
1952-05-02
Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Tall Target
1951-08-17
The Tall Target
Overview: A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Genres: Thriller History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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China Clipper
1936-08-11
China Clipper
Overview: An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-11
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Allotment Wives
1945-11-08
Allotment Wives
Overview: Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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Private Affairs
1940-07-05
Private Affairs
Overview: A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Three Husbands
1950-11-10
Three Husbands
Overview: When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Tap Roots
1948-08-25
Tap Roots
Overview: Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-25
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One Against the World
1939-08-19
One Against the World
Overview: This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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The Big Guy
1939-12-22
The Big Guy
Overview: A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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A Dangerous Profession
1949-12-10
A Dangerous Profession
Overview: A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-10
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The League of Frightened Men
1937-05-25
The League of Frightened Men
Overview: Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-25
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