Eddie Fetherston
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Birthday: September 09, 1896
Deathday: June 12, 1965
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Manpower
1941-08-09
Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Theodora Goes Wild
1936-11-12
Theodora Goes Wild
Overview: The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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North of Shanghai
1939-01-24
North of Shanghai
Overview: In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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Calling All Cars
1935-01-25
Calling All Cars
Overview: A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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The Ridin' Fool
1931-05-31
The Ridin' Fool
Overview: The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-31
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Alias Mr. Twilight
1946-12-24
Alias Mr. Twilight
Overview: Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-24
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The Mystery Train
1931-08-01
The Mystery Train
Overview: A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Lost City
1935-03-06
The Lost City
Overview: An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Africa.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-06
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Flying G-Men
1939-01-28
Flying G-Men
Overview: Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-28
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Wedding Present
1936-10-09
Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Second Chance
1947-07-18
Second Chance
Overview: Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
Movie Crazy
Overview: After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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So You Won't Squawk
1941-02-21
So You Won't Squawk
Overview: Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money owed him, hoping the sap will get rubbed out by Slugger McGraw, a rival gangster. Keaton, however, innocently escapes all the perils that whiz about him without his even knowing it, much to the consternation of McGraw's hoods. When he finally does wake up to Louie's plot, Keaton provokes various policemen to chase him and leads them back to the hoodlum's hideout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Women in Prison
1938-03-02
Women in Prison
Overview: The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938-02-24
Who Killed Gail Preston?
Overview: A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-24
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The Shadow
1937-12-22
The Shadow
Overview: Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Girls Can Play
1937-06-23
Girls Can Play
Overview: The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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A Doggone Mixup
1938-12-05
A Doggone Mixup
Overview: Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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Air Eagles
1931-12-20
Air Eagles
Overview: Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-20
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Exposed
1938-11-05
Exposed
Overview: A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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Mandrake the Magician
1939-05-06
Mandrake the Magician
Overview: Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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The Lady Gambles
1949-05-20
The Lady Gambles
Overview: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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The Game That Kills
1937-09-21
The Game That Kills
Overview: Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-21
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Happy Landing
1934-09-01
Happy Landing
Overview: An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
The Gay Deception
Overview: A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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The Girl from Calgary
1932-10-23
The Girl from Calgary
Overview: A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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Frisco Lil
1942-03-13
Frisco Lil
Overview: Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Girls of the Road
1940-07-24
Girls of the Road
Overview: A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Girls' School
1938-09-30
Girls' School
Overview: Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
1938-04-29
The Nurse from Brooklyn
Overview: A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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The President Vanishes
1934-11-17
The President Vanishes
Overview: The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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Let's Fall in Love
1933-12-26
Let's Fall in Love
Overview: A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Arizona to Broadway
1933-07-22
Arizona to Broadway
Overview: A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Every Night at Eight
1935-08-02
Every Night at Eight
Overview: Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939-01-27
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05
Homicide Bureau
Overview: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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True to the Navy
1930-05-25
True to the Navy
Overview: Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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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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Start Cheering
1938-03-03
Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Devil's Playground
1937-01-24
Devil's Playground
Overview: A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-24
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The Mysterious Miss X
1939-01-10
The Mysterious Miss X
Overview: After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Devil's Squadron
1936-04-30
Devil's Squadron
Overview: In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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One in a Million
1935-03-21
One in a Million
Overview: A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-21
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Cheating Blondes
1933-05-01
Cheating Blondes
Overview: A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-01
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Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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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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Golden Boy
1939-09-05
Golden Boy
Overview: Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-05
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Dr. Broadway
1942-05-09
Dr. Broadway
Overview: A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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Old Ironsides
1926-12-06
Old Ironsides
Overview: An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-06
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Yukon Flight
1940-01-02
Yukon Flight
Overview: When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Sky Bandits
1940-07-06
Sky Bandits
Overview: Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Genres: Action Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-06
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Worldly Goods
1930-07-31
Worldly Goods
Overview: A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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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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Adventure in Sahara
1938-11-15
Adventure in Sahara
Overview: Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946-12-20
It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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The Lady Objects
1938-10-12
The Lady Objects
Overview: A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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The Circus Clown
1934-06-30
The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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Shadows of the Orient
1935-07-06
Shadows of the Orient
Overview: A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-06
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Unseen Enemy
1942-03-10
Unseen Enemy
Overview: The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-10
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Scarface
1932-04-09
Scarface
Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Marked Men
1940-09-30
Marked Men
Overview: A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into the desert.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-30
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Deadwood Dick
1940-07-19
Deadwood Dick
Overview: Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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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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They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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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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Hold That Woman!
1940-06-28
Hold That Woman!
Overview: A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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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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Terry and the Pirates
1940-04-12
Terry and the Pirates
Overview: Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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The Green Archer
1940-10-25
The Green Archer
Overview: The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
Genres: Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Topper
1937-07-16
Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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And Sudden Death
1936-06-16
And Sudden Death
Overview: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943-06-29
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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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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Carnival
1935-02-15
Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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They Dare Not Love
1941-05-16
They Dare Not Love
Overview: An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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Murder in Greenwich Village
1937-11-03
Murder in Greenwich Village
Overview: A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
1932-10-14
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at a company party. From there it is a downward spiral.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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State Police
1938-03-18
State Police
Overview: The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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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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Remember
1926-12-20
Remember
Overview: Directed by David Selman. With Dorothy Phillips, Earl Metcalfe, Lola Todd, Lincoln Stedman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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My Man Godfrey
1936-09-02
My Man Godfrey
Overview: Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938-05-25
The Lone Wolf in Paris
Overview: Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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The Big Squirt
1937-09-17
The Big Squirt
Overview: Soda jerk reads mystery stories, fancies himself a master detective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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She Had to Choose
1934-10-01
She Had to Choose
Overview: A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Black Beauty
1933-04-01
Black Beauty
Overview: Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Man from Colorado
1948-08-07
The Man from Colorado
Overview: Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-07
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Criminals of the Air
1937-04-30
Criminals of the Air
Overview: Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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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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The Frame-Up
1937-05-02
The Frame-Up
Overview: A detective investigates a racing scam.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-02
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