Warner Oland
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr. Fu Manchu; and Henry Chang in Shanghai Express. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 13. He pursued a film career that would include time on Broadway and dozens of film appearances, including 16 Charlie Chan films. After several years in theater, including appearances on Broadway as Warner Oland, in 1912 he made his silent film debut in Pilgrim's Progress, a film based on the John Bunyan novel. As a result of his training as a Shakespearean actor and his easy adoption of a sinister look, he was much in demand as a villain and in ethnic roles. Over the next 15 years, he appeared in more than 30 films, including a major role in The Jazz Singer (1927), one of the first talkies produced. Oland's normal appearance fit the Hollywood expectation of caricatured Asianness of the time, despite his having no definitively proven Asian cultural background. Oland portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first onscreen portrayal of the Fu Manchu character in film. Oland continued to appear onscreen as an Asian, probably more often than any other white actor in the history of cinema. In Old San Francisco, Oland played an Asian unsuccessfully impersonating a white man. Oland was the first actor to play a werewolf in a major Hollywood film, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in Werewolf of London (1935). Once again, Oland's character was Asian. A box office success, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu made Oland a star, and during the next two years he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in three more films (although the second one was purely a cameo appearance). Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film Shanghai Express opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films in total. The series, Jill Lepore later wrote, "kept Fox afloat" during the 1930s, while earning Oland $40,000 per movie. Oland took his role seriously, studying the Chinese language and calligraphy.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 03, 1879
Deathday: August 06, 1938
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Shanghai Express
1932-02-12
Shanghai Express
Overview: A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Genres: Drama Romance War Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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The Jazz Singer
1927-10-06
The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-06
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The Romance of Elaine
1915-06-14
The Romance of Elaine
Overview: The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has Elaine or Jameson in his grasp, they are inevitably saved in the nick of time by a mystery figure garbed in black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-14
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The Winding Stair
1925-10-25
The Winding Stair
Overview: Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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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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Charlie Chan at the Circus
1936-03-27
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Overview: While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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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 in Egypt
1935-06-04
Charlie Chan in Egypt
Overview: While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-04
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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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Charlie Chan in Paris
1935-01-21
Charlie Chan in Paris
Overview: Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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Charlie Chan in London
1934-09-12
Charlie Chan in London
Overview: Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-12
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Charlie Chan in Shanghai
1935-10-11
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Overview: When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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The Horror Show
1979-02-06
The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
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Werewolf of London
1935-05-13
Werewolf of London
Overview: A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-13
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Man of the Forest
1926-12-27
Man of the Forest
Overview: Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
1936-12-04
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Overview: A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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The Naulahka
1918-02-14
The Naulahka
Overview: Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-14
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The Big Gamble
1931-09-04
The Big Gamble
Overview: A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-04
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The Black Camel
1931-06-21
The Black Camel
Overview: Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-21
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
1937-12-17
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Overview: Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-17
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937-09-22
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Overview: Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-22
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As Husbands Go
1934-01-27
As Husbands Go
Overview: Lucille Lingard and her friend Emmie bid farewell to their European friends on their last night in Paris. Lucille has fallen for the debonair Ronald Derbyshire and dreads returning to her mundane Midwestern hometown in Iowa and her stolid husband Charles. Back in America, Lucille plans to get a divorce and is delighted when Ronald show up. However, he and Charles unexpectedly become close friends, and Ronald admits that he does not find Lucille as attractive as he did in Paris. He leaves the next day and Lucille stays with her husband, won over once more to her family life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
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The Painted Veil
1934-11-23
The Painted Veil
Overview: The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Dishonored
1931-04-04
Dishonored
Overview: The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
1927-10-08
Sailor Izzy Murphy
Overview: Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Daughter of the Dragon
1931-09-24
Daughter of the Dragon
Overview: At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-24
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Don Juan
1926-08-06
Don Juan
Overview: If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-06
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When a Man Loves
1927-08-21
When a Man Loves
Overview: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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Don Q Son of Zorro
1925-06-15
Don Q Son of Zorro
Overview: Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-15
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The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
1929-08-10
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Overview: A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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The Drums of Jeopardy
1931-03-01
The Drums of Jeopardy
Overview: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Before Dawn
1933-08-04
Before Dawn
Overview: After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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Shanghai
1935-07-19
Shanghai
Overview: A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Stand and Deliver
1928-02-18
Stand and Deliver
Overview: Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has no sound track!), while Warner Oland makes such an impressive and villainously seedy bandit, he needs no sound track at all. We can just imagine his oily, purring accents all too well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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The Studio Murder Mystery
1929-06-01
The Studio Murder Mystery
Overview: Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934-08-15
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019-10-13
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Overview: A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930-05-02
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Overview: The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-02
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The Son-Daughter
1932-12-23
The Son-Daughter
Overview: Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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The Avalanche
1919-06-29
The Avalanche
Overview: A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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The Reapers
1916-04-03
The Reapers
Overview: Albert Jordan, publishing house manager, lavishes his salary on his adored wife, Rita, and little daughter Edna. She is a churchgoing woman, while his home and his family is his religion. While returning home one day, Jordan sees his little daughter in the path of an auto. He runs to snatch her from instant death. He saves her but is seriously injured himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-03
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Dangerous Paradise
1930-02-13
Dangerous Paradise
Overview: Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-13
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Pilgrim's Progress
1912-10-08
Pilgrim's Progress
Overview: Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-08
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Wheel of Chance
1928-06-17
Wheel of Chance
Overview: A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-17
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Mandalay
1934-02-10
Mandalay
Overview: Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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Charlie Chan's Courage
1934-07-06
Charlie Chan's Courage
Overview: Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-06
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Charlie Chan's Chance
1932-01-24
Charlie Chan's Chance
Overview: Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-24
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The Fatal Ring
1917-07-07
The Fatal Ring
Overview: A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-07
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The Lightning Raider
1919-01-02
The Lightning Raider
Overview: A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-02
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In Search of Charlie Chan
2006-06-20
In Search of Charlie Chan
Overview: A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-20
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A Passport to Hell
1932-08-25
A Passport to Hell
Overview: Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-25
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Tell It to the Marines
1926-12-23
Tell It to the Marines
Overview: U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-23
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The Faker
1929-01-02
The Faker
Overview: Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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Old San Francisco
1927-09-04
Old San Francisco
Overview: In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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Movies on Sundays
1935-01-01
Movies on Sundays
Overview: A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such screenings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Dream of Love
1928-12-01
Dream of Love
Overview: A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Good Time Charley
1927-11-05
Good Time Charley
Overview: Song-and-dance man Charles Edward Keene (Good Time Charley) is bereft when his wife, Elaine, dies as a result of a fall incurred trying to evade the advances of Hartwell, her manager. Years later, his daughter, Rosita, becomes an overnight sensation as a result of her cafe act under Hartwell's management, and Charley is given a bit part in the show at her request.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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The Marriage Clause
1926-09-12
The Marriage Clause
Overview: A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Chinatown Nights
1929-03-29
Chinatown Nights
Overview: Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1925-03-15
Riders of the Purple Sage
Overview: A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Curlytop
1924-12-28
Curlytop
Overview: Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves his sweetheart, Bessie, for her and resolves to go straight. When he sets out to find a job, the jealous Bessie gets Curlytop drunk and hacks off her long curls.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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The Vagabond King
1930-02-17
The Vagabond King
Overview: The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-17
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Patria
1917-01-14
Patria
Overview: Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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The Rise of Susan
1916-12-18
The Rise of Susan
Overview: Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-18
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The Eternal Sapho
1916-05-06
The Eternal Sapho
Overview: A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former lover, a sculptor. She is shocked to discover he has committed suicide, and the tragedy catapults her into insanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-06
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The Scarlet Lady
1928-08-01
The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961-03-21
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Overview: An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Flower of Night
1925-10-17
Flower of Night
Overview: Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-17
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Twinkletoes
1926-11-28
Twinkletoes
Overview: "Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933-09-14
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Overview: When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-14
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A Million Bid
1927-05-27
A Million Bid
Overview: To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-27
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The Mighty
1929-11-16
The Mighty
Overview: In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
Genres: Action Drama Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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Paramount on Parade
1930-04-22
Paramount on Parade
Overview: This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-22
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How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action
1933-06-23
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action
Overview: Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Beatrice Fairfax
1916-08-07
Beatrice Fairfax
Overview: Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel thievery, disguise, counterfeiting, and the long-unseen episode featuring entrancing cult starlet Olive Thomas and the real New York Yankees and Giants playing a game in the Polo Grounds.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-07
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The Twin Pawns
1919-03-18
The Twin Pawns
Overview: A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their poor mother. The two sisters are manipulated by a criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-18
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Charlie Chan Carries On
1931-04-11
Charlie Chan Carries On
Overview: Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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Complicated Women
2003-05-06
Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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What Happened To Father
1927-06-25
What Happened To Father
Overview: Film was released in 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-25
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East Is West
1922-10-15
East Is West
Overview: She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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Hurricane Hutch
1921-09-25
Hurricane Hutch
Overview: Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-25
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His Children's Children
1923-11-04
His Children's Children
Overview: Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Pride of Palomar
1922-11-26
The Pride of Palomar
Overview: A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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The Eternal Question
1916-07-03
The Eternal Question
Overview: Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the streets, dress her appropriately, and within three months have her accepted into society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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Infatuation
1925-12-27
Infatuation
Overview: Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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Destruction
1915-12-26
Destruction
Overview: Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to kill the son who inherits, but he outfoxes her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-26
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The Fighting American
1924-05-26
The Fighting American
Overview: On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-26
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The Third Eye
1920-05-23
The Third Eye
Overview: A pretty movie star is stalked by a strange gang whose leader is infatuated with her in this superior Pathé serial written by genre specialist H.H. van Loan. Released in 15 chapters between May and August of 1920, the serial offered a glimpse into the still mysterious world of movie-making
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-23
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The Witness for the Defense
1919-09-14
The Witness for the Defense
Overview: Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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Sin
1915-10-03
Sin
Overview: Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-03
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The Yellow Ticket
1918-05-26
The Yellow Ticket
Overview: Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-26
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The Phantom Foe
1920-10-11
The Phantom Foe
Overview: Janet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what it is. Days later her father disappears at her 18th birthday party; dematerializing into thin air before her eyes. She sets out to find him and grapples wit mobsters, psychics, murder, and family secrets.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-11
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So This Is Marriage?
1924-11-26
So This Is Marriage?
Overview: The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-26
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999-01-01
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Overview: Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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