Lucien Prival
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Birthday: July 14, 1901
Deathday: June 03, 1994
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935-04-20
Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Hell's Angels
1930-11-15
Hell's Angels
Overview: When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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Mr. Wong, Detective
1938-10-05
Mr. Wong, Detective
Overview: A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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History Is Made at Night
1937-03-05
History Is Made at Night
Overview: An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Young Sinners
1931-05-17
Young Sinners
Overview: The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-17
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The Falcon's Alibi
1946-04-12
The Falcon's Alibi
Overview: A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-12
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High C's
1930-12-27
High C's
Overview: The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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The Return of Chandu
1934-10-01
The Return of Chandu
Overview: Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Trapped by G-Men
1937-09-09
Trapped by G-Men
Overview: Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Sweepstake Annie
1935-01-29
Sweepstake Annie
Overview: A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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Darkest Africa
1936-02-15
Darkest Africa
Overview: A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Party Girl
1930-01-01
Party Girl
Overview: Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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After Tonight
1933-11-10
After Tonight
Overview: When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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King of the Texas Rangers
1941-10-03
King of the Texas Rangers
Overview: Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
Genres: Action Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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A Man of Quality
1926-10-01
A Man of Quality
Overview: Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of smugglers headed by Richard Courtney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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High Flyers
1937-11-07
High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Puppets
1926-06-20
Puppets
Overview: Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic cousin Bruno.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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The Pajama Party
1931-10-03
The Pajama Party
Overview: After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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One Track Minds
1933-05-20
One Track Minds
Overview: Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-20
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Storm at Daybreak
1933-06-14
Storm at Daybreak
Overview: Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-14
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
Nurse Edith Cavell
Overview: British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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King of the Royal Mounted
1940-09-19
King of the Royal Mounted
Overview: The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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The Patent Leather Kid
1927-09-01
The Patent Leather Kid
Overview: The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
The Great Dictator
Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
1939-10-07
Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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Western Limited
1932-08-05
Western Limited
Overview: A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-05
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South of Panama
1941-05-02
South of Panama
Overview: Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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High Noon
1952-06-09
High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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The Last of the Lone Wolf
1930-08-26
The Last of the Lone Wolf
Overview: In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-26
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The Mortal Storm
1940-06-20
The Mortal Storm
Overview: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-20
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Sky Murder
1940-09-27
Sky Murder
Overview: This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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The Sphinx
1933-06-01
The Sphinx
Overview: A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Adoration
1928-12-02
Adoration
Overview: Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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Secrets of the French Police
1932-12-02
Secrets of the French Police
Overview: A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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The Secret Code
1942-09-04
The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Submarine Base
1943-07-20
Submarine Base
Overview: Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-20
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Panama Hattie
1942-09-30
Panama Hattie
Overview: Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-30
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American Beauty
1927-10-09
American Beauty
Overview: Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Claverhouse asks her to marry, but she values love more than wealth, and she sacrifices everything for another man, who is less wealthy, Jerry Booth.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-09
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
1934-04-20
The Crime of Helen Stanley
Overview: An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Haunted at Midnight
1931-05-21
Haunted at Midnight
Overview: Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When Stan's rich uncle Ebeneezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebeneezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-21
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The Racket
1928-11-01
The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Princess and the Plumber
1930-12-21
The Princess and the Plumber
Overview: A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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Hollywood Speaks
1932-06-25
Hollywood Speaks
Overview: The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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The Peacock Fan
1929-08-01
The Peacock Fan
Overview: A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Man Hunt
1941-06-13
Man Hunt
Overview: Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Born to Gamble
1935-07-09
Born to Gamble
Overview: A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-09
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Bat Men of Africa
1966-01-01
Bat Men of Africa
Overview: Re-edited feature film version of the 1936 serial Darkest Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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