George Anderson
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 06, 1886
Deathday: August 26, 1948
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The Secret Seven
1940-08-15
The Secret Seven
Overview: Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-15
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Under Suspicion
1937-11-22
Under Suspicion
Overview: Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-22
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Desperate
1947-06-20
Desperate
Overview: An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-20
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Born to Be Wild
1938-02-16
Born to Be Wild
Overview: Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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King of Chinatown
1939-03-17
King of Chinatown
Overview: A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Murder, My Sweet
1944-12-14
Murder, My Sweet
Overview: After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-14
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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The Man They Could Not Hang
1939-08-17
The Man They Could Not Hang
Overview: Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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Mildred Pierce
1945-10-20
Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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The Earl of Chicago
1940-01-05
The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Killers
1946-08-30
The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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This Gun for Hire
1942-04-24
This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Chip of the Flying U
1939-11-29
Chip of the Flying U
Overview: Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett, foreman of the Flying U ranch. Before the second reel has tumbled over the spools, Chip finds himself falsely accused of robbery and murder. The actual miscreants are in the employ of a band of foreign gunrunners, who speak in heavily Teutonic accents. Rest assured that Chip makes short work of these bush-league Storm Troopers before the sun sets in the West. Musical interludes are provided by a group calling themselves the Texas Rangers, even though they actually hailed from Kansas City.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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Santa Fe Marshal
1940-01-26
Santa Fe Marshal
Overview: U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Hidden Gold
1940-06-07
Hidden Gold
Overview: Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Christmas in July
1940-10-25
Christmas in July
Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Women Without Names
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
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South of Santa Fe
1942-02-17
South of Santa Fe
Overview: To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1942-02-17
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Idaho
1943-03-10
Idaho
Overview: A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Little Pal
1915-07-01
Little Pal
Overview: "Little Pal" is the daughter of a saloon keeper in a rough Alaskan gold rush town. During a game of dice, he loses his daughter to the brutal "Black Brand". A fight ensues and her father is killed, Little Pal flees and seeks refuge with John, an Easterner who has come to Alaska to mine. When he falls ill, the lovestruck Little Pal nurses him back to health with the help of her loyal friend, Cultus. Little Pal is heartbroken with the arrival of John's wife, and when she learns he will die if he remains in the harsh climate, Little Pal and Cultus steal gold dust from a rival claim in order to provide John with money. Meanwhile, Black Brand who is suspected of the crime is shot. As John and his wife leave Alaska, a despondent Little Pal finds comfort in Cultus' love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-01
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The Co-respondent
1917-10-06
The Co-respondent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-06
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Her Man
1918-09-08
Her Man
Overview: A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-08
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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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Glamour for Sale
1940-09-27
Glamour for Sale
Overview: A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Road to Utopia
1946-02-27
Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
The Major and the Minor
Overview: Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-16
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The Argyle Secrets
1948-05-07
The Argyle Secrets
Overview: A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Nut Guilty
1936-11-21
Nut Guilty
Overview: In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-21
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The Chance of a Lifetime
1943-10-26
The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Main Street Follies
1935-05-11
Main Street Follies
Overview: A New york producer sends a spy to a nightclub to report back on the musical acts.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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The Missing Juror
1944-11-16
The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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The Underdog
1943-10-17
The Underdog
Overview: During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-17
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944-08-09
Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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