Leon Ames
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland's father, and in Little Women (1949). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Ames licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 20, 1902
Deathday: October 12, 1993
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944-11-28
Meet Me in St. Louis
Overview: Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Lady in the Lake
1946-12-19
Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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Angel Face
1953-01-02
Angel Face
Overview: Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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East Side Kids
1940-02-10
East Side Kids
Overview: After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Battleground
1949-11-09
Battleground
Overview: Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-09
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Secrets of a Nurse
1938-12-02
Secrets of a Nurse
Overview: This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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Just You and Me, Kid
1979-07-13
Just You and Me, Kid
Overview: George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Overview: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976-10-18
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Overview: An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-18
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Fugitive at Large
1939-12-07
Fugitive at Large
Overview: George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-07
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932-01-27
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Overview: In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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The Velvet Touch
1948-07-13
The Velvet Touch
Overview: After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-13
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On Moonlight Bay
1951-07-26
On Moonlight Bay
Overview: The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-26
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Dial 1119
1950-11-03
Dial 1119
Overview: A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938-09-17
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Overview: The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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The Thin Man Goes Home
1944-12-24
The Thin Man Goes Home
Overview: On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-24
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Song of the Thin Man
1947-08-28
Song of the Thin Man
Overview: Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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From the Terrace
1960-07-15
From the Terrace
Overview: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-15
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The Iron Major
1943-10-31
The Iron Major
Overview: William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching where he ended up having one of the best winning percentages in football history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-31
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Little Women
1949-03-10
Little Women
Overview: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-10
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On an Island with You
1948-05-03
On an Island with You
Overview: A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-03
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Peyton Place
1957-12-13
Peyton Place
Overview: In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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Yolanda and the Thief
1945-11-22
Yolanda and the Thief
Overview: Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
Genres: Music Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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Scene of the Crime
1949-07-28
Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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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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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1964-03-25
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
Overview: Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Genres: Science Fiction Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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The Absent-Minded Professor
1961-03-16
The Absent-Minded Professor
Overview: Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-16
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Pilot X
1936-12-01
Pilot X
Overview: Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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They Were Expendable
1945-12-07
They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941-11-18
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Overview: The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-18
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Crisis
1950-07-07
Crisis
Overview: An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953-03-26
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Overview: Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
Genres: Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Rescue Squad
1935-05-15
Rescue Squad
Overview: An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Crime Doctor
1943-06-22
Crime Doctor
Overview: Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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It's a Big Country
1951-11-20
It's a Big Country
Overview: Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939-04-07
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Overview: In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1945-10-04
Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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A Date with Judy
1948-07-29
A Date with Judy
Overview: Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-29
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Thunder Afloat
1939-09-15
Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Sabre Jet
1953-09-04
Sabre Jet
Overview: The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner ready when they return. Jane Carter (Coleen Gray), a reporter for a large newspaper syndicate arrives... she's also the estranged wife of the assistant squadron commander, Colonel Gil Manton (Robert Stack.) At first, she goes at her assignment of getting a story on the pilots wives with the same ruthlessness and persistence that broke up her marriage - but a mirror isn't needed to peek around the corner to where this one is headed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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Any Number Can Play
1949-07-15
Any Number Can Play
Overview: When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-15
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Merton of the Movies
1947-10-11
Merton of the Movies
Overview: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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The Happy Years
1950-07-07
The Happy Years
Overview: Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Toklat
1971-01-01
Toklat
Overview: A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from rescuing him as a cub to teaching him how to hunt. He finally finds Toklat and faces the true reason he is after him: the bear is wanted for killing a rancher's livestock, and the mountain man badly needs the bounty money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Meal
1975-10-01
The Meal
Overview: A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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Cattle Drive
1951-08-01
Cattle Drive
Overview: The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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The Cockeyed Miracle
1946-10-26
The Cockeyed Miracle
Overview: A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Fall Guy
1945-04-14
Fall Guy
Overview: Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-14
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Soak the Poor
1937-08-21
Soak the Poor
Overview: This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-21
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Island in the Sky
1938-04-01
Island in the Sky
Overview: A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Now I'll Tell
1934-06-07
Now I'll Tell
Overview: A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Uptown New York
1932-11-27
Uptown New York
Overview: Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames). But when Pat is nearly killed in an effort to protect her husband's gumball machines from hoodlums and is in need of a lifesaving operation, Eddie calls on Dr. Max
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-27
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The Great Morgan
1945-01-01
The Great Morgan
Overview: Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Strangers All
1935-04-01
Strangers All
Overview: Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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Brother of the Wind
1973-01-31
Brother of the Wind
Overview: A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Let's Do It Again
1953-06-16
Let's Do It Again
Overview: Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-16
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Undercover Maisie
1947-03-01
Undercover Maisie
Overview: Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Engagement Party
1956-01-01
Engagement Party
Overview: Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Claws
1977-01-01
Claws
Overview: A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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International Settlement
1938-02-04
International Settlement
Overview: In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Get That Man
1935-07-10
Get That Man
Overview: Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-10
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1939-10-24
Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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The Big Hangover
1950-05-26
The Big Hangover
Overview: A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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The Amazing Mr. Nordill
1947-08-30
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
Overview: This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cleverest counterfeiters who ever baffled the agents of the U.S. Treasury department.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-30
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Between Two Women
1945-03-28
Between Two Women
Overview: A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-28
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Watch the Birdie
1950-12-11
Watch the Birdie
Overview: A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-11
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Panama Patrol
1939-03-20
Panama Patrol
Overview: A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
Genres: Mystery Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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Reckless
1935-04-19
Reckless
Overview: A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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No Greater Sin
1941-08-29
No Greater Sin
Overview: The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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The Monkey's Uncle
1965-08-18
The Monkey's Uncle
Overview: College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Genres: Family Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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Suez
1938-10-28
Suez
Overview: Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Forgotten
1933-02-14
Forgotten
Overview: Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-14
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Risky Business
1939-03-03
Risky Business
Overview: Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Alias a Gentleman
1948-02-03
Alias a Gentleman
Overview: Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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Parachute Jumper
1933-01-28
Parachute Jumper
Overview: An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Jake Speed
1986-05-30
Jake Speed
Overview: Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-30
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973-01-01
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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I'll Tell the World
1934-04-20
I'll Tell the World
Overview: Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Help Wanted
1939-06-10
Help Wanted
Overview: A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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The Famous Ferguson Case
1932-04-19
The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Testament
1983-11-04
Testament
Overview: It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
Blackwell's Island
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939-11-03
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Overview: A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Ambush
1950-01-13
Ambush
Overview: A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Ship of Wanted Men
1933-09-08
Ship of Wanted Men
Overview: A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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The Skipper Surprised His Wife
1950-06-29
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Overview: A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-29
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Calling All Marines
1939-09-20
Calling All Marines
Overview: Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-20
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The Man Who Dared
1933-06-30
The Man Who Dared
Overview: An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Dangerously Yours
1937-09-21
Dangerously Yours
Overview: A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-21
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No Leave, No Love
1946-03-10
No Leave, No Love
Overview: A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-10
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Cipher Bureau
1938-10-25
Cipher Bureau
Overview: The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-25
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The Show-Off
1946-12-01
The Show-Off
Overview: Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-01
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Come On, Leathernecks!
1938-08-08
Come On, Leathernecks!
Overview: The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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I Was a Convict
1939-03-06
I Was a Convict
Overview: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Code of the Streets
1939-04-13
Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Legion of Lost Flyers
1939-11-02
Legion of Lost Flyers
Overview: A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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Peggy Sue Got Married
1986-10-10
Peggy Sue Got Married
Overview: Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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Alimony Madness
1933-03-31
Alimony Madness
Overview: A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Quick Millions
1931-04-17
Quick Millions
Overview: A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Son of Lassie
1945-04-20
Son of Lassie
Overview: Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Genres: Action Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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Hammersmith Is Out
1972-05-12
Hammersmith Is Out
Overview: The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17
A Successful Calamity
Overview: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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Son of Flubber
1963-01-16
Son of Flubber
Overview: Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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The Spy Ring
1938-01-08
The Spy Ring
Overview: Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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George Washington Slept Here
1942-10-30
George Washington Slept Here
Overview: New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Stowaway
1932-03-01
Stowaway
Overview: On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Walking Down Broadway
Overview: Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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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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Song of Revolt
1937-05-29
Song of Revolt
Overview: This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Mutiny Ahead
1935-03-01
Mutiny Ahead
Overview: A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Best Place to Be
1979-05-27
The Best Place to Be
Overview: A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-27
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That's My Boy
1932-11-13
That's My Boy
Overview: Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-13
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Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970-06-17
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Overview: Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-17
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Timber Tramps
1975-12-31
Timber Tramps
Overview: A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944-11-15
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Overview: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-15
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45 Fathers
1937-11-26
45 Fathers
Overview: An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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