Tom Dugan
Biography: Tom Dugan was born on January 1, 1889 in Dublin, Ireland as Thomas J. Dugan. He was an actor, known for To Be or Not to Be (1942), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) and Good News (1947). He was married to Marie Raymond and Marie Engle. He died on March 7, 1955 in Redlands, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1889
Deathday: March 07, 1955
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To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
To Be or Not to Be
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945-11-11
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Overview: In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-11
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Swing It Soldier
1941-11-07
Swing It Soldier
Overview: In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
1946-04-05
Johnny Comes Flying Home
Overview: Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1951-04-02
The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-01
It's a Great Feeling
Overview: A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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The Bad One
1930-05-03
The Bad One
Overview: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1949-03-09
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Overview: The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Crashout
1955-03-01
Crashout
Overview: Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the lives of "regular folks," each has his own rendezvous with destiny.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Sonny Boy
1929-04-18
Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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The Drake Case
1929-09-01
The Drake Case
Overview: Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
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The Ghost Breakers
1940-06-21
The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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Blessed Event
1932-09-10
Blessed Event
Overview: A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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On the Town
1949-12-08
On the Town
Overview: Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Wife vs. Secretary
1936-02-28
Wife vs. Secretary
Overview: Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Accomplice
1946-09-29
Accomplice
Overview: A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-29
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The Million Dollar Collar
1929-02-09
The Million Dollar Collar
Overview: Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-09
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The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
The Major and the Minor
Overview: Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-16
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No More Women
1934-03-03
No More Women
Overview: Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-03
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Four Daughters
1938-08-09
Four Daughters
Overview: Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-09
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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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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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941-03-24
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
Overview: Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to help out.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-24
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The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28
The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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Rendezvous
1935-10-25
Rendezvous
Overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
1951-10-10
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Overview: The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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The Night of Nights
1939-12-01
The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
Too Many Husbands
Overview: Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Pick a Star
1937-05-21
Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
1951-05-18
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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True Confession
1937-12-24
True Confession
Overview: A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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The Vanishing Legion
1931-06-01
The Vanishing Legion
Overview: A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
Genres: Action Mystery Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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The Swell-Head
1927-08-05
The Swell-Head
Overview: Businessman Lefty Malone decides to become a prizefight, has his head turned by instant success, falls for the wrong woman, Kitty, then realizes the error of his ways, and finds true love with Molly O'Rourke.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-05
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The Galloping Ghost
1931-09-01
The Galloping Ghost
Overview: A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Shadow Returns
1946-02-16
The Shadow Returns
Overview: The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-16
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939-01-27
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Alias Nick Beal
1949-03-04
Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Don't Bet on Love
1933-06-30
Don't Bet on Love
Overview: A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Tell It to a Star
1945-08-16
Tell It to a Star
Overview: Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-16
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My Friend from India
1927-12-18
My Friend from India
Overview: Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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Mister Cinderella
1936-10-22
Mister Cinderella
Overview: Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-22
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The Star Witness
1931-08-22
The Star Witness
Overview: A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
The Best Years of Our Lives
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Pennies from Heaven
1936-11-25
Pennies from Heaven
Overview: Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Lady on a Train
1945-08-03
Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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Broadway Babies
1929-06-30
Broadway Babies
Overview: Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-30
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The Hot Heiress
1931-03-28
The Hot Heiress
Overview: Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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The Kid Sister
1945-02-06
The Kid Sister
Overview: A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involves joining forces with a burglar to rob the unfortunate suitor's home.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-06
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One Sunday Afternoon
1948-12-25
One Sunday Afternoon
Overview: The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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A Woman's Man
1934-02-06
A Woman's Man
Overview: A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-06
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Isle Of Destiny
1940-03-08
Isle Of Destiny
Overview: A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Night Work
1930-08-03
Night Work
Overview: Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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The Big Timer
1932-03-10
The Big Timer
Overview: Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-10
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We Go Fast
1941-09-19
We Go Fast
Overview: A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Sing, You Sinners
1938-09-02
Sing, You Sinners
Overview: Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Sons of the Legion
1938-09-18
Sons of the Legion
Overview: Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-18
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You Never Can Tell
1951-09-23
You Never Can Tell
Overview: Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the girl who used to look after him.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Thanks for the Memory
1938-11-11
Thanks for the Memory
Overview: Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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They Learned About Women
1930-01-30
They Learned About Women
Overview: Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-30
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Soft Living
1928-02-05
Soft Living
Overview: Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-05
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The Pilgrim Lady
1947-01-22
The Pilgrim Lady
Overview: Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-22
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Good News
1947-12-04
Good News
Overview: At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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The Wide Open Spaces
1931-12-28
The Wide Open Spaces
Overview: A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-28
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Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
Cross-Country Romance
Overview: A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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The Small Bachelor
1927-11-06
The Small Bachelor
Overview: What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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Sharp Shooters
1928-01-15
Sharp Shooters
Overview: A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when his ship leaves port she decides to show up at its next stop and reunite with her lover. However, when she arrives at the ship's next destination, she discovers that her "lover" has already found another local girl to spend his time with. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Skyway
1933-08-29
Skyway
Overview: A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-29
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Too Many Highballs
1933-02-10
Too Many Highballs
Overview: Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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The Affair of Susan
1935-09-01
The Affair of Susan
Overview: Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Poker at Eight
1935-03-09
Poker at Eight
Overview: Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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Love Detectives
1934-02-28
Love Detectives
Overview: Two young men compete for the affections of a beautiful blonde.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-28
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Palooka
1934-01-26
Palooka
Overview: Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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One New York Night
1935-03-08
One New York Night
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Half a Sinner
1940-04-05
Half a Sinner
Overview: Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-05
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The Fighting 69th
1940-01-27
The Fighting 69th
Overview: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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American Madness
1932-08-15
American Madness
Overview: Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-15
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Bright Lights
1930-09-21
Bright Lights
Overview: A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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The President Vanishes
1934-11-17
The President Vanishes
Overview: The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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There's That Woman Again
1938-12-24
There's That Woman Again
Overview: Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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The Medicine Man
1930-06-14
The Medicine Man
Overview: The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Doctor X
1932-08-03
Doctor X
Overview: A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-03
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Drag
1929-07-21
Drag
Overview: Young David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is attracted to Dot, "the most sophisticated girl in town," he marries Allie Parker, daughter of the couple who run the boardinghouse where he lives. Allie remains at home when David goes to New York City to sell a musical he has written. There, Dot, now a successful costume designer, uses her influence to get David's play produced. David and Dot fall in love, but she leaves for Paris when David indicates he will remain true to Allie. He sends for Allie, but when she arrives with her whole family, he decides to follow Dot to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-21
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Greenwich Village
1944-09-27
Greenwich Village
Overview: In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-27
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The Lady and the Mob
1939-04-03
The Lady and the Mob
Overview: Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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I Surrender Dear
1948-10-06
I Surrender Dear
Overview: Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart." Patty's father Russ is dismissed from his radio-station job, and the disc jockey selected to replace him is Al Tyler. Patty rushes home to keep Russ company on the air for the final few days, and Al wonders why she suddenly walked out on him. The new "Patty and Russ" radio show catches on, causing complications with Al and the radio-station bosses.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-06
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Home in Indiana
1944-06-15
Home in Indiana
Overview: 'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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Love Affair
1939-04-07
Love Affair
Overview: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Daughters Courageous
1939-06-23
Daughters Courageous
Overview: Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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The House of Fear
1939-06-30
The House of Fear
Overview: A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Missing Evidence
1939-12-15
Missing Evidence
Overview: G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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The Meanest Man in the World
1943-02-12
The Meanest Man in the World
Overview: Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939-10-26
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Overview: A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Murder in the Fleet
1935-05-24
Murder in the Fleet
Overview: A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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Million Dollar Legs
1939-07-13
Million Dollar Legs
Overview: At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-13
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Gambler's Choice
1944-04-27
Gambler's Choice
Overview: The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-27
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Meet the Stewarts
1942-05-21
Meet the Stewarts
Overview: A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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So You Won't Talk?
1940-10-02
So You Won't Talk?
Overview: A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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City Without Men
1943-01-14
City Without Men
Overview: A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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The Albany Branch
1931-08-02
The Albany Branch
Overview: Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-02
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The Circus Clown
1934-06-30
The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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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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The Way of All Pants
1927-10-28
The Way of All Pants
Overview: A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-28
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Virginia City
1940-03-23
Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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The Richest Man in Town
1941-08-02
The Richest Man in Town
Overview: The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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Lights of New York
1928-07-18
Lights of New York
Overview: Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-18
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Hot Pepper
1933-01-15
Hot Pepper
Overview: In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Orchestra Wives
1942-09-04
Orchestra Wives
Overview: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Saturday's Children
1940-05-04
Saturday's Children
Overview: An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940-11-01
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Overview: When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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The Boys from Syracuse
1940-07-30
The Boys from Syracuse
Overview: The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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The Belle of New York
1952-02-22
The Belle of New York
Overview: In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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The Fabulous Dorseys
1947-02-26
The Fabulous Dorseys
Overview: The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Laugh It Off
1939-12-01
Laugh It Off
Overview: Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Big City Blues
1932-09-18
Big City Blues
Overview: An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946-07-01
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Overview: A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal investigation.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-01
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939-03-23
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Overview: Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-23
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The Perils of Pauline
1947-07-04
The Perils of Pauline
Overview: Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-04
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Dressed to Kill
1928-03-17
Dressed to Kill
Overview: A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-17
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The Last Crooked Mile
1946-08-09
The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Earl Carroll Vanities
1945-04-05
Earl Carroll Vanities
Overview: Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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I Live My Life
1935-10-04
I Live My Life
Overview: A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Chinatown Squad
1935-05-31
Chinatown Squad
Overview: Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Surprise
1930-03-15
Surprise
Overview: Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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She Who Gets Slapped
1930-05-15
She Who Gets Slapped
Overview: A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-15
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Girl o' My Dreams
1934-11-16
Girl o' My Dreams
Overview: A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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The Phantom of the West
1930-11-10
The Phantom of the West
Overview: A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
Genres: Action Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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Trail of Kit Carson
1945-07-11
Trail of Kit Carson
Overview: Bill Harmon receives a letter from his partner, Dave MacRoy informing him of a rich gold strike in their California mine. Arriving there, Bill learns from elderly miner John Benton that Dave is dead and that he sold the mine at a strangely low price the night before his supposed accidental death. Harmon suspects murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Grand Slam
1933-02-22
Grand Slam
Overview: A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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The Midnight Taxi
1928-09-01
The Midnight Taxi
Overview: The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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San Francisco
1936-06-26
San Francisco
Overview: A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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There's Always a Woman
1938-04-20
There's Always a Woman
Overview: An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-20
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Up in Arms
1944-02-17
Up in Arms
Overview: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Kid Gloves
1929-03-23
Kid Gloves
Overview: When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Eadie Was a Lady
1945-01-24
Eadie Was a Lady
Overview: In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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A Dangerous Game
1941-08-21
A Dangerous Game
Overview: Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-21
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Hearts in Exile
1929-09-14
Hearts in Exile
Overview: In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17
Mystery of the White Room
Overview: A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
Take It or Leave It
Overview: A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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Pleasure Island
1933-02-24
Pleasure Island
Overview: A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical sequence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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Woman Hungry
1931-04-04
Woman Hungry
Overview: This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Bugle Sounds
1942-01-30
The Bugle Sounds
Overview: An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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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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She Had to Eat
1937-07-02
She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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$1,000 a Touchdown
1939-10-04
$1,000 a Touchdown
Overview: A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-04
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Coney Island
1943-06-18
Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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Bataan
1943-06-03
Bataan
Overview: During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-03
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The Barker
1928-10-02
The Barker
Overview: A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-02
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941-01-03
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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No Place for a Lady
1943-02-11
No Place for a Lady
Overview: A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-11
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Father Takes the Air
1951-06-17
Father Takes the Air
Overview: In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-17
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Broadway Daddies
1928-04-07
Broadway Daddies
Overview: Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy businessman and is just pretending to be poor to see if she really loves him. However, an item in the society pages gives away Robert's true identity. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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Melody of Love
1928-10-10
Melody of Love
Overview: Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent the Fox Movietone sound-on-film recording system for one week, having to be filmed at night while the Fox Studio was closed down for the evenings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-10
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Half Past Midnight
1948-03-01
Half Past Midnight
Overview: A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Grand Central Murder
1942-05-01
Grand Central Murder
Overview: Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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Let's Talk It Over
1934-06-01
Let's Talk It Over
Overview: A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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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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The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935-12-10
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Overview: Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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Always Together
1947-12-10
Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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In Society
1944-08-16
In Society
Overview: Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-16
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Case of the Missing Man
1935-10-20
Case of the Missing Man
Overview: After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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The Man Who Walked Alone
1945-03-15
The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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Johnny Come Lately
1943-09-03
Johnny Come Lately
Overview: Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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You Can't Escape Forever
1942-10-10
You Can't Escape Forever
Overview: A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-10
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933-10-25
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Overview: A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-25
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Moon Over Las Vegas
1944-04-01
Moon Over Las Vegas
Overview: A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Shadows of the Night
1928-10-26
Shadows of the Night
Overview: Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-26
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Nobody's Baby
1937-04-23
Nobody's Baby
Overview: Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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By Whose Hand?
1932-07-06
By Whose Hand?
Overview: On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-06
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Divot Diggers
1936-02-08
Divot Diggers
Overview: When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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Moontide
1942-05-29
Moontide
Overview: After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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