Edward Van Sloan
Biography: Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun) was an American screen and stage character actor best remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 01, 1882
Deathday: March 06, 1964
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Known For
Dracula
1931-02-12
Dracula
Overview: British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-12
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Frankenstein
1931-11-21
Frankenstein
Overview: Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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The Secret Seven
1940-08-15
The Secret Seven
Overview: Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-15
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Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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End of the Road
1944-11-10
End of the Road
Overview: A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Before I Hang
1940-09-17
Before I Hang
Overview: Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-17
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Slander
1916-04-09
Slander
Overview: The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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The Mummy
1932-12-22
The Mummy
Overview: An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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The Phantom Creeps
1939-01-07
The Phantom Creeps
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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This Side of the Law
1950-06-17
This Side of the Law
Overview: A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-17
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The Mask of Diijon
1946-03-11
The Mask of Diijon
Overview: A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-11
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The Working Man
1933-04-20
The Working Man
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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The Death Kiss
1932-12-05
The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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Teddy the Rough Rider
1940-02-21
Teddy the Rough Rider
Overview: This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-21
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Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Criminal Lawyer
1937-01-29
Criminal Lawyer
Overview: Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
Genres: Action Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-29
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The Conspirators
1944-10-24
The Conspirators
Overview: A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-24
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01
The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Murder on the Campus
1933-12-26
Murder on the Campus
Overview: A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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A Shot in the Dark
1935-01-31
A Shot in the Dark
Overview: An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-31
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Air Hawks
1935-05-07
Air Hawks
Overview: A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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Road Gang
1936-03-28
Road Gang
Overview: A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-28
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A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
A Foreign Affair
Overview: In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014-08-01
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Overview: Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Play Girl
1932-03-12
Play Girl
Overview: A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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Danger on the Air
1938-06-30
Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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The Life of Vergie Winters
1934-06-14
The Life of Vergie Winters
Overview: A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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Thunder Below
1932-06-17
Thunder Below
Overview: Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-17
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The Scarlet Empress
1934-05-09
The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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The Man Who Found Himself
1937-04-02
The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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Fatal Lady
1936-05-15
Fatal Lady
Overview: On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Manhattan Parade
1931-12-24
Manhattan Parade
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Grand Old Girl
1935-01-15
Grand Old Girl
Overview: An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-15
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That Mothers Might Live
1938-04-30
That Mothers Might Live
Overview: That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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Honeymoon in Bali
1939-09-29
Honeymoon in Bali
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Boo
1932-12-01
Boo
Overview: A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Dracula
1963-01-01
Dracula
Overview: 8-minute shortened version of Tod Browning's 1931 classic "Dracula."
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Love Crazy
Overview: Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Sins of Man
Overview: Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Trick for Trick
1933-04-20
Trick for Trick
Overview: Six months after the unsolved murder of a young woman who had been his assistant magician Azrah arranges a seance that will be attended by his former partner La Tour, as well by detectives and interested parties who may also be suspects. The seance is abruptly ended when la Tour is murdered and general confusion and much activity inside and outside Azrah’s stone fortress, a veritable castle of magic, ensues until everything is sorted out and the culprit is revealed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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The Woman in Red
1935-02-16
The Woman in Red
Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-16
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Valley of Hunted Men
1942-11-13
Valley of Hunted Men
Overview: Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Riders of the Rio Grande
1943-05-21
Riders of the Rio Grande
Overview: A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Captain Hurricane
1935-03-01
Captain Hurricane
Overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Arizonian
1935-06-27
The Arizonian
Overview: Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Genres: Western Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-27
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Behind the Mask
1932-02-25
Behind the Mask
Overview: A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-25
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The Last Mile
1932-08-17
The Last Mile
Overview: Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-17
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Storm Over Bengal
1938-11-14
Storm Over Bengal
Overview: This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-14
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Infernal Machine
1933-04-08
Infernal Machine
Overview: This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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It's Great to Be Alive
1933-07-08
It's Great to Be Alive
Overview: An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
Genres: Comedy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-08
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Baby Face
1933-07-13
Baby Face
Overview: A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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Destination Unknown
1942-10-09
Destination Unknown
Overview: Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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The Underworld Story
1950-07-26
The Underworld Story
Overview: A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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The Crosby Case
1934-03-05
The Crosby Case
Overview: Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-05
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Mills of the Gods
1934-12-15
Mills of the Gods
Overview: Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1935-10-18
The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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3 Kids and a Queen
1935-10-21
3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Man Wanted
1932-04-23
Man Wanted
Overview: A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-23
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933-01-06
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Overview: An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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Manhattan Melodrama
1934-05-04
Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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I'll Fix It
1934-11-10
I'll Fix It
Overview: A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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A Man's World
1942-09-17
A Man's World
Overview: Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Deluge
1933-08-17
Deluge
Overview: A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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The Phantom Creeps
1949-06-06
The Phantom Creeps
Overview: An edited version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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Captain America
1944-02-05
Captain America
Overview: Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-05
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Penitentiary
1938-02-05
Penitentiary
Overview: The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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The Black Room
1935-07-15
The Black Room
Overview: In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-15
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999-01-01
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Overview: Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Universal Horror
1998-10-08
Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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