John Sheehan
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1885
Deathday: February 14, 1952
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Known For
Trimmed in Furs
1934-01-05
Trimmed in Furs
Overview: Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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The Murder Man
1935-07-12
The Murder Man
Overview: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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The Criminal Code
1931-01-03
The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Little Miss Marker
1934-06-01
Little Miss Marker
Overview: Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Elmer, the Great
Overview: Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
1948-05-23
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Overview: An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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His First Flame
1935-03-08
His First Flame
Overview: After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Such Women Are Dangerous
1934-06-08
Such Women Are Dangerous
Overview: An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Laughing Irish Eyes
1936-03-04
Laughing Irish Eyes
Overview: An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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Mama Runs Wild
1937-12-22
Mama Runs Wild
Overview: Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Last Chapter
1914-12-01
The Last Chapter
Overview: Gordon, a young war correspondent, after being wounded in the jungles of Africa, is picked up and taken back to England by James Egerton, a wealthy rubber magnate, who has been investigating conditions on his plantation, where there has been a great shortage in the year's yield. On the voyage homeward the correspondent and Egerton's daughter Alice fall in love.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-01
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Mob Town
1941-10-03
Mob Town
Overview: Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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The Night of Nights
1939-12-01
The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936-04-24
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Slightly Honorable
1939-12-22
Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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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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Under Southern Stars
1937-02-20
Under Southern Stars
Overview: Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Hard to Handle
1933-01-28
Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Ladies' Day
1943-04-09
Ladies' Day
Overview: A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Three Godfathers
1936-03-06
Three Godfathers
Overview: In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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The Gay Nighties
1933-06-22
The Gay Nighties
Overview: This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-22
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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
1933-04-06
Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Overview: A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-06
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All Over Town
1937-08-09
All Over Town
Overview: Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-09
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Here Comes Carter
1936-10-24
Here Comes Carter
Overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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Ticket to Paradise
1936-06-24
Ticket to Paradise
Overview: A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-24
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Join the Marines
1937-01-25
Join the Marines
Overview: New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-25
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Island Captives
1937-07-22
Island Captives
Overview: A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Love Takes Flight
1937-11-05
Love Takes Flight
Overview: A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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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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Kismet
1930-10-30
Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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The Warrior's Husband
1933-04-28
The Warrior's Husband
Overview: The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942-10-01
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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The Key to Yesterday
1914-10-12
The Key to Yesterday
Overview: George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Swing High
1930-05-18
Swing High
Overview: To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-18
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Pretenses
1915-12-07
Pretenses
Overview: Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-07
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933-07-13
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Overview: When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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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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The Personality Kid
1934-06-06
The Personality Kid
Overview: An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-06
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The Case of the Black Cat
1936-10-31
The Case of the Black Cat
Overview: Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-31
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King for a Night
1933-12-09
King for a Night
Overview: A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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On the Avenue
1937-02-12
On the Avenue
Overview: A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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The Comet's Come-Back
1916-05-31
The Comet's Come-Back
Overview: The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-31
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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That's My Man
1947-06-01
That's My Man
Overview: A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16
Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Midnight Court
1937-03-06
Midnight Court
Overview: After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Wake Island
1942-08-11
Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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The Great O'Malley
1937-02-13
The Great O'Malley
Overview: His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-13
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Night Club Scandal
1937-11-11
Night Club Scandal
Overview: When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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The Payoff
1942-11-24
The Payoff
Overview: The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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Wolf Call
1939-05-22
Wolf Call
Overview: A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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Hold 'Em Jail
1932-08-19
Hold 'Em Jail
Overview: Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
I Take This Woman
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Love on a Budget
1938-03-04
Love on a Budget
Overview: This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Smart Blonde
1937-01-02
Smart Blonde
Overview: Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Overview: Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Mexican Spitfire
1940-01-12
Mexican Spitfire
Overview: Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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Pat and Mike
1952-06-13
Pat and Mike
Overview: Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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As the Devil Commands
1933-09-01
As the Devil Commands
Overview: Slowly dying of a terminal illness, wealthy invalid John Duncan wants his aide Dr. Graham to end his suffering.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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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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King of the Lumberjacks
1940-04-13
King of the Lumberjacks
Overview: Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Tin Pan Alley
Overview: Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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City for Conquest
1940-09-21
City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
Seven Sinners
Overview: Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Flight Command
1940-12-27
Flight Command
Overview: A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Men Against the Sky
1940-09-06
Men Against the Sky
Overview: A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Hullabaloo
1940-10-25
Hullabaloo
Overview: A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Red, Hot and Blue
1949-09-05
Red, Hot and Blue
Overview: In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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The Marines Fly High
1940-03-04
The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12
Millionaires in Prison
Overview: A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Three Faces West
1940-07-03
Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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Too Young to Marry
1931-05-03
Too Young to Marry
Overview: In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-03
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I've Always Loved You
1946-12-02
I've Always Loved You
Overview: A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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Silent Witness
1943-01-15
Silent Witness
Overview: District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947-07-31
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Overview: A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-31
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Mug Town
1942-12-18
Mug Town
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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The Chief
1933-11-03
The Chief
Overview: The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934-03-18
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Overview: A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-18
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Big Town Czar
1939-05-03
Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Overview: Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-29
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Woman of the Year
1942-02-05
Woman of the Year
Overview: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Pacific Blackout
1941-12-31
Pacific Blackout
Overview: Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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The Past of Mary Holmes
1933-01-20
The Past of Mary Holmes
Overview: Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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Fair Warning
1931-02-01
Fair Warning
Overview: This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-01
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Alias Nick Beal
1949-03-04
Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Bombardier
1943-05-14
Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Marked Woman
1937-04-10
Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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The Lady and the Bandit
1951-08-13
The Lady and the Bandit
Overview: Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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The Human Side
1934-09-01
The Human Side
Overview: The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Where Danger Lives
1950-11-16
Where Danger Lives
Overview: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1933-09-16
Bureau of Missing Persons
Overview: Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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The Keyhole
1933-03-25
The Keyhole
Overview: A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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It Ain't Hay
1943-03-10
It Ain't Hay
Overview: Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Night in New Orleans
1942-07-01
Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Hidden Enemy
1940-01-20
Hidden Enemy
Overview: Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-20
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The Man in Half Moon Street
1945-01-19
The Man in Half Moon Street
Overview: A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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House of Mystery
1934-03-30
House of Mystery
Overview: Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Magnificent Doll
1946-12-08
Magnificent Doll
Overview: While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-08
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Johnny Come Lately
1943-09-03
Johnny Come Lately
Overview: Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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Call Her Savage
1932-11-24
Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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State Fair
1933-02-10
State Fair
Overview: The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Many Sappy Returns
1938-08-19
Many Sappy Returns
Overview: Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
1932-09-09
Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Overview: The story is set in the final days of the Civil War and spies from the North and the South. And, in the midst of this, a Yankee falls in love with Southern belle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-09
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His Kind of Woman
1951-08-15
His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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