Fred Santley
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 20, 1887
Deathday: May 14, 1953
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Hitchhike to Happiness
1945-07-16
Hitchhike to Happiness
Overview: An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-16
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She Done Him Wrong
1933-02-09
She Done Him Wrong
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer, the Great
Overview: Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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Such Women Are Dangerous
1934-06-08
Such Women Are Dangerous
Overview: An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Leathernecking
1930-09-12
Leathernecking
Overview: Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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It's a Big Country
1951-11-20
It's a Big Country
Overview: Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Stage Door
1937-10-08
Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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If I Had a Million
1932-11-18
If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Hard to Handle
1933-01-28
Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Three Who Loved
1931-07-03
Three Who Loved
Overview: A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Virtue
1932-10-25
Virtue
Overview: Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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Gangs Inc.
1941-06-13
Gangs Inc.
Overview: Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Walls of Gold
1933-10-21
Walls of Gold
Overview: A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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Double Harness
1933-07-21
Double Harness
Overview: After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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Walking on Air
1936-09-11
Walking on Air
Overview: A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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The Family Next Door
1939-03-30
The Family Next Door
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
Here Comes the Band
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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Her Master's Voice
1936-01-17
Her Master's Voice
Overview: Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Night Parade
1929-10-27
Night Parade
Overview: Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-27
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A Dangerous Affair
1931-09-29
A Dangerous Affair
Overview: Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-29
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933-11-02
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Overview: Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-02
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That Brennan Girl
1946-12-23
That Brennan Girl
Overview: Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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Smartest Girl in Town
1936-11-27
Smartest Girl in Town
Overview: A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-27
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She's Got Everything
1937-12-31
She's Got Everything
Overview: The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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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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Special Agent
1949-07-22
Special Agent
Overview: A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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Double Trouble
1941-11-21
Double Trouble
Overview: Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Mr. Skitch
1933-12-22
Mr. Skitch
Overview: After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Danger On Wheels
1940-02-02
Danger On Wheels
Overview: During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Behind the News
1940-12-20
Behind the News
Overview: As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Here Is My Heart
1934-12-28
Here Is My Heart
Overview: A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Music for Madame
1937-10-08
Music for Madame
Overview: An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Swing, Sister, Swing
1938-12-16
Swing, Sister, Swing
Overview: In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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There Goes the Groom
1937-10-29
There Goes the Groom
Overview: After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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The Fleet's In
1942-01-24
The Fleet's In
Overview: Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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Call of the Canyon
1942-08-17
Call of the Canyon
Overview: A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Daddy's Double
1910-04-04
Daddy's Double
Overview: This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-04
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Morning Glory
1933-08-18
Morning Glory
Overview: Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-18
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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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Crime Rave
1939-01-13
Crime Rave
Overview: When a crime wave hits town, bank robbers find haven in Errol's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Ice-Capades
Overview: Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-19
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Father of the Bride
1950-05-18
Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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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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Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The Roaring West
1935-07-08
The Roaring West
Overview: A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Topa Topa
1938-03-17
Topa Topa
Overview: Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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Lady in the Lake
1946-12-19
Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Overview: George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-17
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California
1947-02-21
California
Overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-21
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Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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