Griff Barnett
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 12, 1884
Deathday: January 12, 1958
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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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Possessed
1947-05-29
Possessed
Overview: After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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Criss Cross
1949-02-04
Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Holiday Affair
1949-12-12
Holiday Affair
Overview: Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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The Sellout
1952-05-30
The Sellout
Overview: A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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The Gangster
1947-11-25
The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Scandal Sheet
1952-01-16
Scandal Sheet
Overview: A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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Two of a Kind
1951-07-01
Two of a Kind
Overview: A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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Home Town Story
1951-05-18
Home Town Story
Overview: Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Danger Woman
1946-07-12
Danger Woman
Overview: A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-12
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To Each His Own
1946-03-12
To Each His Own
Overview: During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-12
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No Man of Her Own
1950-02-21
No Man of Her Own
Overview: A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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The Millerson Case
1947-05-29
The Millerson Case
Overview: While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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Mother Is a Freshman
1949-03-12
Mother Is a Freshman
Overview: Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-12
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Sierra
1950-05-26
Sierra
Overview: Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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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 Walls of Jericho
1948-11-22
The Walls of Jericho
Overview: In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949-05-27
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Fury at Furnace Creek
1948-04-30
Fury at Furnace Creek
Overview: The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Customs Agent
1950-05-18
Customs Agent
Overview: An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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The Duel at Silver Creek
1952-09-05
The Duel at Silver Creek
Overview: When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free the tiny town of Silver City from the clutches of the dastardly villains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Santa Fe Stampede
1938-11-18
Santa Fe Stampede
Overview: The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a friend with the petition is murdered. Stony is accused.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Gangs of Sonora
1941-07-10
Gangs of Sonora
Overview: Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-10
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Saigon
1947-12-05
Saigon
Overview: After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-05
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Fighting Father Dunne
1948-05-12
Fighting Father Dunne
Overview: A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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For the Love of Mary
1948-09-01
For the Love of Mary
Overview: Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Passage West
1951-10-01
Passage West
Overview: In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Stepchild
1947-06-07
Stepchild
Overview: Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939-02-25
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Overview: Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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Sweet and Low
1947-03-28
Sweet and Low
Overview: Part of the Paramount Musical Parade shorts (production number FF6-1)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Arizona
1940-12-25
Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Apartment for Peggy
1948-09-30
Apartment for Peggy
Overview: Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Pinky
1949-09-28
Pinky
Overview: Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-28
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The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Gunfighters
1947-07-15
Gunfighters
Overview: Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
The Spirit of St. Louis
Overview: Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941-12-27
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Wild Harvest
1947-09-26
Wild Harvest
Overview: Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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Peggy
1950-07-01
Peggy
Overview: Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952-03-01
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
Overview: Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore Dan. Years later, now a trained thief, he's adopted by eccentric 'Doc' Brown, retired miner and pharmacist. Doc and David become fast friends in their scenic outdoor rambles. But when they discover a hidden treasure, the idyllic interlude gives way to more troubles and a strange coincidence.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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Shadows on the Sage
1942-08-24
Shadows on the Sage
Overview: Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. The Three Mesquiteers, Tucson, Stony, and Lullaby arrive to help Sheriff Lippy fight the outlaws. But when the gang leader Curly Joe captures Tucson and notices the resemblance, he assumes Tucson's identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Frontier Vengeance
1940-10-10
Frontier Vengeance
Overview: Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Tap Roots
1948-08-25
Tap Roots
Overview: Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-25
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The Tender Years
1948-01-03
The Tender Years
Overview: A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-03
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When I Grow Up
1951-04-19
When I Grow Up
Overview: Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-19
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Unconquered
1947-10-10
Unconquered
Overview: England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-10
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The Fountainhead
1949-06-25
The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Convicted
1950-08-01
Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Strange Holiday
1945-10-19
Strange Holiday
Overview: An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Michigan Kid
1947-08-11
Michigan Kid
Overview: A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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Suddenly It's Spring
1947-02-13
Suddenly It's Spring
Overview: A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
Duel in the Sun
Overview: Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Champagne for Two
1947-06-13
Champagne for Two
Overview: Nightclub boss Malone puts off his wedding anniversary trip because an old woman claims to have overheard plans to rob the nightclub. But the old woman, Mrs. Cowdy, has a scheme of her own.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-13
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