Ann Doran
Biography: Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 28, 1911
Deathday: September 19, 2000
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Rebel Without a Cause
1955-10-27
Rebel Without a Cause
Overview: After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Blondie
1938-11-30
Blondie
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Topaz
1969-12-17
Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Air Hostess
1949-08-25
Air Hostess
Overview: The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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Mr. Wise Guy
1942-02-20
Mr. Wise Guy
Overview: The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24
My Sister Eileen
Overview: Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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Pitfall
1948-08-11
Pitfall
Overview: An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-11
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The Man They Could Not Hang
1939-08-17
The Man They Could Not Hang
Overview: Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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He Walked by Night
1949-02-06
He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946-08-19
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Overview: Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-19
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958-07-31
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Overview: The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-31
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You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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Fear in the Night
1947-04-10
Fear in the Night
Overview: The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-10
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Blind Alley
1939-05-11
Blind Alley
Overview: A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Man Who Turned to Stone
1957-03-01
The Man Who Turned to Stone
Overview: A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The People Against O'Hara
1951-09-01
The People Against O'Hara
Overview: A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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The Hired Hand
1971-08-11
The Hired Hand
Overview: Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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Street of Chance
1942-10-03
Street of Chance
Overview: In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life and discovers a lot of mysterious happenings.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-03
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Live a Little, Love a Little
1968-10-23
Live a Little, Love a Little
Overview: Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Kitten with a Whip
1964-11-04
Kitten with a Whip
Overview: Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Love Is Better Than Ever
1952-02-23
Love Is Better Than Ever
Overview: The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus she plans a trap for him...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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Here Come the Waves
1944-12-18
Here Come the Waves
Overview: Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Penny Serenade
1941-04-24
Penny Serenade
Overview: Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-24
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The Snake Pit
1948-11-04
The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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The Painted Hills
1951-05-04
The Painted Hills
Overview: After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Three Sappy People
1939-12-01
Three Sappy People
Overview: The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Gambling House
1950-12-27
Gambling House
Overview: A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-27
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Flying G-Men
1939-01-28
Flying G-Men
Overview: Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-28
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The Chump Takes a Bump
1939-05-05
The Chump Takes a Bump
Overview: At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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South of the Boudoir
1940-05-17
South of the Boudoir
Overview: Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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The High and the Mighty
1954-07-03
The High and the Mighty
Overview: Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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My Favorite Brunette
1947-03-19
My Favorite Brunette
Overview: Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-19
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The Arrangement
1969-11-18
The Arrangement
Overview: An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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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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Road to the Big House
1947-12-13
Road to the Big House
Overview: A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-13
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Second Chance
1947-07-18
Second Chance
Overview: Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Voice in the Mirror
1958-08-13
Voice in the Mirror
Overview: Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. One night, he meets William Tobin, a fellow drunk, and finds that he helps himself by trying to help Tobin. Thus is born, amid setbacks, a group resembling Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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Pride of the Marines
1945-08-24
Pride of the Marines
Overview: Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-24
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Where Love Has Gone
1964-11-02
Where Love Has Gone
Overview: A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943-10-28
Gildersleeve on Broadway
Overview: On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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Once You Kiss a Stranger...
1969-11-12
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Overview: A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-12
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For the Love of Rusty
1947-05-01
For the Love of Rusty
Overview: Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-01
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Girls of the Road
1940-07-24
Girls of the Road
Overview: A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
1966-11-02
Not With My Wife, You Don't
Overview: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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Dead of Night
1977-03-29
Dead of Night
Overview: This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-29
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Rusty Leads the Way
1948-10-21
Rusty Leads the Way
Overview: Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-21
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Rusty Saves a Life
1949-02-03
Rusty Saves a Life
Overview: Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-03
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The Son of Rusty
1947-08-07
The Son of Rusty
Overview: The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation. Danny's friends spread the story all over town. The seriousness of the minor infraction grows with each telling. As a sidebar, Rusty finds a mate and becomes a father.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-07
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The Hostage
1967-10-23
The Hostage
Overview: The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Almanzar and Joanne Brown, with Leland Brown, John Carradine, and Harry Dean Stanton. The plot centers on a young boy who becomes a hostage after he is accidentally closed inside a moving van.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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My Dog Rusty
1948-04-08
My Dog Rusty
Overview: Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-08
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The Man Who Lived Twice
1936-09-25
The Man Who Lived Twice
Overview: A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-25
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942-06-25
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
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All Night Long
1981-03-06
All Night Long
Overview: Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Missing Girls
1936-09-10
Missing Girls
Overview: A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-10
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Violent Road
1958-05-10
Violent Road
Overview: Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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Women in Prison
1938-03-02
Women in Prison
Overview: The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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Seven Were Saved
1947-03-28
Seven Were Saved
Overview: A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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So Proudly We Hail
1943-09-09
So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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Riding High
1950-04-12
Riding High
Overview: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Roughly Speaking
1945-01-31
Roughly Speaking
Overview: In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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The Werewolf of Woodstock
1975-01-24
The Werewolf of Woodstock
Overview: At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-24
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Lonely Heart Bandits
1950-08-29
Lonely Heart Bandits
Overview: Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-29
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Her First Romance
1951-05-04
Her First Romance
Overview: A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr., Sharyn Moffett, Jimmy Hunt, Elinor Donahue, Ann Doran, Lloyd Corrigan, Atthur Space and Maudie Prickett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Life Begins At 17
1958-07-01
Life Begins At 17
Overview: Rich college fraternity boy tries to get small-town beauty contest winner to fall for him by making a play for her 16-year-old sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Let's Sing Again
1936-05-07
Let's Sing Again
Overview: An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-07
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Cast a Long Shadow
1959-08-24
Cast a Long Shadow
Overview: A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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First Monday in October
1981-08-21
First Monday in October
Overview: For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Joy Ride
1958-11-23
Joy Ride
Overview: Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957-05-04
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Overview: In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-04
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The FBI Story
1959-10-01
The FBI Story
Overview: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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No Sad Songs for Me
1950-04-27
No Sad Songs for Me
Overview: Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-27
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Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936-03-02
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Overview: Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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Red Lights Ahead
1936-11-28
Red Lights Ahead
Overview: A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Girls Can Play
1937-06-23
Girls Can Play
Overview: The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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Rosie!
1967-11-22
Rosie!
Overview: An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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The Family Nobody Wanted
1975-02-19
The Family Nobody Wanted
Overview: A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Criminals Within
1941-06-27
Criminals Within
Overview: A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Rusty's Birthday
1949-11-03
Rusty's Birthday
Overview: A lost dog tries to find his way back to his beloved master in the final film of the Rusty series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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A Doggone Mixup
1938-12-05
A Doggone Mixup
Overview: Harry, who can't resist a bargain, buys a St. Bernard dog.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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Way Down East
1935-10-25
Way Down East
Overview: A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Here Come the Nelsons
1952-02-23
Here Come the Nelsons
Overview: The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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The Female Animal
1958-01-22
The Female Animal
Overview: Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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Paula
1952-05-15
Paula
Overview: A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-15
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The Bob Mathias Story
1954-10-24
The Bob Mathias Story
Overview: Film biography of the Olympics Decathlon champion, with the famous athlete and his wife playing themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-24
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So This Is Love
1953-07-15
So This Is Love
Overview: Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-15
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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I Love a Soldier
1944-07-12
I Love a Soldier
Overview: During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-12
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The Spider's Web
1938-10-21
The Spider's Web
Overview: Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Captain Newman, M.D.
1963-12-25
Captain Newman, M.D.
Overview: In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Magic Town
1947-10-07
Magic Town
Overview: Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-07
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The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
The More the Merrier
Overview: It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-13
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The Crimson Key
1947-07-02
The Crimson Key
Overview: Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-02
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The Failing of Raymond
1971-09-27
The Failing of Raymond
Overview: On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-27
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One Last Fling
1949-06-30
One Last Fling
Overview: A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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The Eddie Cantor Story
1953-12-25
The Eddie Cantor Story
Overview: Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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City Story
1954-05-05
City Story
Overview: When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once attended, has her released in his charge. She tells the pastor she doesn't come to church because the congregation is too cold and unfriendly. Realizing that she has spoken the truth, the pastor tries to inject new life into the church and brings up the idea of widened community services before the church board. There is opposition, at first because of the cost, but they vote to give the new plan a chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-05
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Rattling Romeo
1939-07-14
Rattling Romeo
Overview: Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-14
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The Accused
1949-01-12
The Accused
Overview: A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-12
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Step Down to Terror
1958-09-01
Step Down to Terror
Overview: Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Hazard
1948-05-28
Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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Sealed Verdict
1948-11-05
Sealed Verdict
Overview: John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Palm Springs
1936-06-05
Palm Springs
Overview: A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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I'll Take Romance
1937-11-17
I'll Take Romance
Overview: Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05
Homicide Bureau
Overview: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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The Kid from Cleveland
1949-09-05
The Kid from Cleveland
Overview: Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life spirals out of control, sneaks into the 1948 World Series and seeks friendship by playing a sympathetic orphan. He finds stability and mentorship in sportscaster Mike Jackson and the Cleveland Indians, who try to set Johnny on the right path in this touching story for the whole family.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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Them!
1954-06-16
Them!
Overview: As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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Start Cheering
1938-03-03
Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Manhattan Heartbeat
1940-07-11
Manhattan Heartbeat
Overview: A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-11
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Devil's Playground
1937-01-24
Devil's Playground
Overview: A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-24
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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944-06-10
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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Young and Dangerous
1957-10-30
Young and Dangerous
Overview: Tommy Price is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it with 17-year-old Rosemary Clinton. Their date turns out badly and her parents forbid her to see him again. They keep meeting, and the relationship changes him to the extent that he plans on going to college and changing his life, which delights his parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Let Us Live
1939-03-29
Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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One Exciting Adventure
1934-09-01
One Exciting Adventure
Overview: One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Good Girls Go to Paris
Overview: Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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Coast Guard
1939-08-04
Coast Guard
Overview: Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-04
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Sue My Lawyer
1938-09-15
Sue My Lawyer
Overview: Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-15
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The Mind Needer
1938-04-29
The Mind Needer
Overview: A Charley Chase short, produced at Columbia. Charley is alarmingly forgetful, and this is his wedding anniversary. Will he give his wife a present and avoid her wrath?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Time Out for Trouble
1938-03-17
Time Out for Trouble
Overview: Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-17
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The Return of the Whistler
1948-03-18
The Return of the Whistler
Overview: When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Riot in Juvenile Prison
1959-04-01
Riot in Juvenile Prison
Overview: When the shootings of two juvenile inmates bring public protest, a psychologist is brought in to see if he can do anything to control the problems peacefully.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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The Hard Way
1943-01-13
The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Never a Dull Moment
1950-08-19
Never a Dull Moment
Overview: Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-19
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The Lady Objects
1938-10-12
The Lady Objects
Overview: A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Cold Turkey
1940-10-18
Cold Turkey
Overview: Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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Holiday
1938-05-26
Holiday
Overview: Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-26
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Her First Romance
1940-12-25
Her First Romance
Overview: A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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All the Way Home
1981-12-21
All the Way Home
Overview: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-21
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Advice to the Lovelorn
1981-11-30
Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-30
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Untamed
1940-07-24
Untamed
Overview: A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977-11-05
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Overview: A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-05
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Crazy Times
1981-04-10
Crazy Times
Overview: Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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Air Force
1943-03-20
Air Force
Overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Genres: Action Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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The Rawhide Trail
1958-01-25
The Rawhide Trail
Overview: In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanche raid and are sentenced to hang. Now they must work hard and fast to prove their innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-01-25
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A Woman is the Judge
1939-10-03
A Woman is the Judge
Overview: Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-03
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The Brass Bottle
1964-05-20
The Brass Bottle
Overview: A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
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Little Mo
1978-09-05
Little Mo
Overview: Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little Mo," and died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-05
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Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Island in the Sky
1953-09-05
Island in the Sky
Overview: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Five Little Peppers at Home
1940-02-08
Five Little Peppers at Home
Overview: The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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His Girl Friday
1940-01-18
His Girl Friday
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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The Green Hornet
1940-01-08
The Green Hornet
Overview: A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Genres: Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-08
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City Streets
1938-07-01
City Streets
Overview: When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Holiday in Havana
1949-10-01
Holiday in Havana
Overview: While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-01
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Reaching from Heaven
1948-02-01
Reaching from Heaven
Overview: Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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Smith of Minnesota
1942-10-15
Smith of Minnesota
Overview: This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interview with the famed halfback. In order to garner information, the scenarist is assigned to live with Smith. During the film, Smith shares his thoughts on football and anecdotes from his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-15
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The Kid from Kansas
1941-09-19
The Kid from Kansas
Overview: Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Highway Patrol
1938-06-27
Highway Patrol
Overview: Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
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A Summer Place
1959-11-18
A Summer Place
Overview: A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Rio Grande
1938-12-08
Rio Grande
Overview: No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western from the Columbia assembly line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-08
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Ring Around the Moon
1936-02-15
Ring Around the Moon
Overview: Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't love. Turmoil ensues for Ross as he tries to make his marriage work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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The Rose Bowl Story
1952-08-24
The Rose Bowl Story
Overview: The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-24
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The Carpetbaggers
1964-04-08
The Carpetbaggers
Overview: When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-08
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Beyond the Forest
1949-10-21
Beyond the Forest
Overview: Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-21
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Sun Valley Serenade
1941-08-29
Sun Valley Serenade
Overview: When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935-11-15
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Overview: A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944-07-04
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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Mr. Skeffington
1944-05-25
Mr. Skeffington
Overview: A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Nothing Sacred
1937-11-25
Nothing Sacred
Overview: When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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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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It's All Yours
1937-09-01
It's All Yours
Overview: Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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The Clay Pigeon
1949-03-03
The Clay Pigeon
Overview: Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-03
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Tomahawk
1951-02-05
Tomahawk
Overview: In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely to provide this. Meanwhile, Bridger's chance of preventing catastrophe is dimmed by equally wrenching personal conflicts. Unusually accurate historically.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-05
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Wildcats
1986-02-14
Wildcats
Overview: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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No Minor Vices
1948-11-12
No Minor Vices
Overview: Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-12
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Weekend of Terror
1970-12-08
Weekend of Terror
Overview: Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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Day of the Badman
1958-01-29
Day of the Badman
Overview: Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Smashing the Spy Ring
1938-12-29
Smashing the Spy Ring
Overview: G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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New York Town
1941-10-31
New York Town
Overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Bombers B-52
1957-11-22
Bombers B-52
Overview: Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Overview: A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Dive Bomber
1941-01-01
Dive Bomber
Overview: A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Meet John Doe
1941-03-14
Meet John Doe
Overview: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Glamour for Sale
1940-09-27
Glamour for Sale
Overview: A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Old Acquaintance
1943-11-27
Old Acquaintance
Overview: Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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They All Kissed the Bride
1942-06-11
They All Kissed the Bride
Overview: Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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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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Skinny the Moocher
1939-09-08
Skinny the Moocher
Overview: Deep in debt, Charley must marry a wealthy society girl, and attends an afternoon party to announce the engagement. Trouble is, he's menaced by two thuggish creditors and must take his kleptomaniac butler along, passing him off as an uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1970-09-18
There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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The Desperate Hours
1955-10-05
The Desperate Hours
Overview: Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949-09-20
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Overview: Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1974-05-07
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Overview: A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-07
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Stella Dallas
1937-08-06
Stella Dallas
Overview: After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Extortion
1938-05-09
Extortion
Overview: In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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Blondes and Blunders
1940-11-29
Blondes and Blunders
Overview: A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Pie a la Maid
1938-12-25
Pie a la Maid
Overview: Charley falls for a waitress who mistakes him for a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-25
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Many Sappy Returns
1938-08-19
Many Sappy Returns
Overview: Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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The Last Angry Man
1974-04-16
The Last Angry Man
Overview: In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-16
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The Gumball Rally
1976-07-28
The Gumball Rally
Overview: A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-28
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Flood!
1977-06-05
Flood!
Overview: Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-05
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Mirage
1965-10-29
Mirage
Overview: In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-29
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The Macahans
1976-01-19
The Macahans
Overview: Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-19
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Bad Boy
1935-10-25
Bad Boy
Overview: An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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