Bruce Bennett
Biography: Bruce Bennett (born Harold Herman Brix) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. His first career was as an athlete. At the University of Washington, where he majored in economics, he played football (tackle) in the 1926 Rose Bowl and was a track-and-field star. Two years later, he won the Silver medal for the shot put in the 1928 Olympic Games. Brix moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected Brix to play the title character. Brix, however, broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football film Touchdown, so swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced Brix and became a major star. After Ashton Dearholt convinced Burroughs to allow him to form Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc., and make a Tarzan serial film, Dearholt cast Brix in the lead. Pressbook copy has it that Burroughs made the choice himself, but, in fact, in his biography, Brix confirmed that Burroughs never even saw him until after the contract was signed, and then only briefly. The film was begun on location in Guatemala, under rugged conditions (jungle diseases and cash shortages were frequent). Brix did his own stunts, including a fall to rocky cliffs below. The Washington Post quoted Gabe Essoe's passage from his book Tarzan of the Movies: "Brix's portrayal was the only time between the silents and the 1960s that Tarzan was accurately depicted in films. He was mannered, cultured, soft-spoken, a well educated English lord who spoke several languages, and didn't grunt."[4] Brix shown in the opening credits of the serial The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935). Due to financial mismanagement, Dearholt had to complete filming of much of the serial back in Hollywood, and Brix, although his travel and daily living expenses in Guatemala were covered throughout the shoot, never received his contracted salary, along with the rest of the cast. The finished film, The New Adventures of Tarzan, was released in 1935 by Burroughs-Tarzan, and offered to theatres as a 12-chapter serial or a seven-reel feature. A second feature, Tarzan and the Green Goddess, was culled from the footage in 1938.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 19, 1906
Deathday: February 24, 2007
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948-01-15
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Overview: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Mildred Pierce
1945-10-20
Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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The Secret Seven
1940-08-15
The Secret Seven
Overview: Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-15
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Danger Patrol
1937-11-18
Danger Patrol
Overview: An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-18
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Land of Fighting Men
1938-11-03
Land of Fighting Men
Overview: A cowboy is framed for the murder of a rancher, which was committed by a landgrabber. The cowboy must clear his name and bring in the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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Before I Hang
1940-09-17
Before I Hang
Overview: Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-17
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Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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The Man I Love
1946-12-26
The Man I Love
Overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The House Across the Street
1949-09-10
The House Across the Street
Overview: Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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Danger Signal
1945-11-21
Danger Signal
Overview: After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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The Officer and the Lady
1941-10-12
The Officer and the Lady
Overview: A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-12
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The Alligator People
1959-07-16
The Alligator People
Overview: Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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Without Honor
1949-10-26
Without Honor
Overview: Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he has to break off their relationship. She threatens suicide, but when she picks up a shish kabob skewer, the two struggle and Dennis is stabbed in the chest and collapses. Jane hides the body in the house. Before she can leave, her brother-in-law arrives and tells her that he knows about the affair and that he has invited her husband, her lover, and his wife to her house that evening so that he can tell them about the affair.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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A Stolen Life
1946-05-01
A Stolen Life
Overview: A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-01
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Strategic Air Command
1955-07-12
Strategic Air Command
Overview: Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Dark Passage
1947-09-05
Dark Passage
Overview: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
1948-10-09
Smart Girls Don't Talk
Overview: A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-09
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The Big Tip Off
1955-03-20
The Big Tip Off
Overview: A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-20
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Love Me Tender
1956-11-15
Love Me Tender
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
Genres: Drama Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Silver River
1948-05-20
Silver River
Overview: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-20
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956-10-05
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Overview: Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Sahara
1943-09-22
Sahara
Overview: In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Sudden Fear
1952-08-07
Sudden Fear
Overview: Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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The Taming of the Snood
1940-06-28
The Taming of the Snood
Overview: A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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The Spook Speaks
1940-09-20
The Spook Speaks
Overview: A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Shakedown
1950-09-01
Shakedown
Overview: Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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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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The Cosmic Man
1959-02-17
The Cosmic Man
Overview: A strange sphere settles down in a California canyon, causing both the scientific and military communities to gather around to investigate.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-17
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Tarzan and the Green Goddess
1938-02-14
Tarzan and the Green Goddess
Overview: Tarzan retells the story of a trip to Guatemala in which the ape-man had gone to aid a friend in searching for a very valuable totem pole called the Green Goddess. Second of two feature versions of the 1935 serial film "The New Adventures Of Tarzan", culled from the serial's last 10 episodes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-14
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Undertow
1949-12-03
Undertow
Overview: Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-03
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The Three Outlaws
1956-05-13
The Three Outlaws
Overview: Ready to quit their life of crime, the three "most-wanted" outlaws in the West---Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver ---perform their final job by robbing and stealing a train and fleeing across the border. In a South American town they begin their life of respectability by purchasing a ranch and depositing their stolen fortune in the local bank, and throwing a big fiesta to entertain the locals, including Colonel Aguilar and his beautiful daughter Rita.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-13
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Submarine Raider
1942-06-04
Submarine Raider
Overview: On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-04
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The Doctor and the Girl
1949-09-29
The Doctor and the Girl
Overview: Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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Murder in Times Square
1943-04-01
Murder in Times Square
Overview: An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935-05-21
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: A feature film. Tarzan, who has returned to Africa after living in England, sets off to Guatemala in search of an old friend who may have survived a plane crash there. Also in Guatemala are Ula Vale and Major Martling who are out to find the riches of the Green Goddess. They join forces after they learn that a competitor, Raglan, has already set out ahead of them. Tarzan has to rescue everyone after they are taken prisoner. When they get to the hidden city, Tarzan finds his friend alive and the fabulous treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-21
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Fiend of Dope Island
1961-01-01
Fiend of Dope Island
Overview: Charlie is a dope smuggler who lives on his own private desert island and rules over the natives with an iron fist. When the native stooges get out of line, Charlie literally cracks the whip on his insubordinate subordinates. When a sexpot named Glory comes to the island, he holds her prisoner and makes her go-go dance for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Second Face
1950-12-01
The Second Face
Overview: A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940-11-02
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Overview: Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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The Bottom of the Bottle
1956-02-01
The Bottom of the Bottle
Overview: An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-10
Shadow of Chinatown
Overview: A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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The Younger Brothers
1949-05-03
The Younger Brothers
Overview: Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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The Last Outpost
1951-04-04
The Last Outpost
Overview: The cavalry defend a small town from indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003-09-30
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Overview: An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-30
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A Million to One
1936-12-31
A Million to One
Overview: The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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So Long Mr. Chumps
1941-02-07
So Long Mr. Chumps
Overview: The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancée is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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No Census, No Feeling
1940-10-04
No Census, No Feeling
Overview: The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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The Outsider
1961-12-27
The Outsider
Overview: Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Cheyenne
1947-06-06
Cheyenne
Overview: Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-06
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Dragonfly Squadron
1954-03-21
Dragonfly Squadron
Overview: A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Amateur Crook
1937-12-10
Amateur Crook
Overview: Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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The Great Missouri Raid
1951-02-01
The Great Missouri Raid
Overview: During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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Hawk of the Wilderness
1938-12-03
Hawk of the Wilderness
Overview: An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939-06-10
Daredevils of the Red Circle
Overview: Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Flying Fists
1937-07-01
Flying Fists
Overview: A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Robbers' Roost
1955-05-30
Robbers' Roost
Overview: Jim "Tex" Wall, searching for the last of the three men who raped and killed his wife, joins a gang of cattle rustlers led by Hank Hays. Both Hays' outlaws and a rival gang headed by Heesman, have been hired as ranch hands by "Bull" Herrick, a cripple who owns a large cattle ranch and wants to get his large herd to market. He theorizes that the two gangs will be kept busy watching each other and neither will rustle his cattle. Helen has little faith in her brother's contrived plan, and hates and distrusts both groups. She begins to soften toward Jim, but abruptly changes when she sees a reward poster which says he has killed two men.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-30
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Sky Racket
1937-10-01
Sky Racket
Overview: A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Student Tour
1934-10-05
Student Tour
Overview: A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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There's Something About a Soldier
1943-11-30
There's Something About a Soldier
Overview: Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
Genres: Drama Action Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-30
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With This Ring
1954-01-01
With This Ring
Overview: Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Silks and Saddles
1936-12-14
Silks and Saddles
Overview: College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-14
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Overview: Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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The Lone Ranger
1938-02-13
The Lone Ranger
Overview: In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first actions, he captures and assumes the identity of Texas' new Finance Commissioner, Colonel Marcus Jeffries, after having the real man murdered. When a contingent of Texas Rangers enters the territory, Snead, one of Smith's men, leads them into an ambush by Smith's "troopers". The Rangers are apparently wiped out, although one injured survivor is left. The survivor, nursed back to health by Tonto, swears to avenge the massacre and defeat "Colonel Jeffries" and his men.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-13
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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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Death on the Diamond
1934-09-14
Death on the Diamond
Overview: Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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I'm from Arkansas
1944-10-31
I'm from Arkansas
Overview: A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-31
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Two Minutes to Play
1936-11-02
Two Minutes to Play
Overview: Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-02
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The Man with Nine Lives
1940-04-18
The Man with Nine Lives
Overview: Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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Dream Wife
1953-06-19
Dream Wife
Overview: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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Treasure Island
1934-08-17
Treasure Island
Overview: In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Hidden Guns
1956-01-30
Hidden Guns
Overview: The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-30
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College Humor
1933-07-05
College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939-11-08
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Overview: Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-17
Shadow of Chinatown
Overview: Feature version of the 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi. A European importing firm resorts to devious extremes to run its Chinese competition out of business.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-17
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Boobs in the Woods
1940-05-31
Boobs in the Woods
Overview: Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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West of Abilene
1940-10-20
West of Abilene
Overview: Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940-05-30
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Overview: A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-30
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The Heckler
1940-02-16
The Heckler
Overview: An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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To the Victor
1948-10-26
To the Victor
Overview: An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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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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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939-08-22
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Overview: The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-22
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Atlantic Convoy
1942-07-02
Atlantic Convoy
Overview: American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Million Dollar Racket
1937-09-30
Million Dollar Racket
Overview: Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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U-Boat Prisoner
1944-07-25
U-Boat Prisoner
Overview: Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-25
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942-04-02
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Overview: Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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My Son Is Guilty
1939-12-28
My Son Is Guilty
Overview: Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-28
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The Phantom Submarine
1940-12-20
The Phantom Submarine
Overview: On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Honolulu Lu
1941-12-11
Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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Sabotage Squad
1942-08-27
Sabotage Squad
Overview: A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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Underground Agent
1942-12-03
Underground Agent
Overview: In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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Babies for Sale
1940-06-14
Babies for Sale
Overview: A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940-05-02
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Overview: Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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Beer Barrel Polecats
1946-01-10
Beer Barrel Polecats
Overview: The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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Frontier Fury
1943-06-23
Frontier Fury
Overview: In this western, a decent Indian agent loses his job and his good name after someone steals the government money he was to deliver to a tribe. Because he cannot bear to see the people starve over the long winter, he begins searching for the robbers. He does so by looking for the unusual coins that had been included in the payroll.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
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Angels in the Outfield
1951-10-19
Angels in the Outfield
Overview: The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Hi-Yo Silver
1940-04-10
Hi-Yo Silver
Overview: Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-10
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Island of Doomed Men
1940-05-20
Island of Doomed Men
Overview: An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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Cafe Hostess
1940-01-11
Cafe Hostess
Overview: A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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Lassie: Well of Love
1970-01-01
Lassie: Well of Love
Overview: In this touching drama a disparate group of people rally together to save a dog that has fallen into a deep well.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Blazing Six Shooters
1940-04-10
Blazing Six Shooters
Overview: The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-10
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Escape to Glory
1940-05-20
Escape to Glory
Overview: The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Three Girls About Town
Overview: Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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The Clones
1973-08-01
The Clones
Overview: A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Deadhead Miles
1972-08-08
Deadhead Miles
Overview: A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-08
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Torpedo of Doom
1966-01-01
Torpedo of Doom
Overview: This is a TV-movie feature edited from the 1938 Republic serial "Fighting Devil Dogs"
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Dutiful But Dumb
1941-03-21
Dutiful But Dumb
Overview: The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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How High Is Up?
1940-07-26
How High Is Up?
Overview: The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Convicted Woman
1940-01-31
Convicted Woman
Overview: A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-31
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Three Violent People
1956-12-01
Three Violent People
Overview: A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Flaming Frontier
1958-08-01
Flaming Frontier
Overview: Army officer whose parents are white and Indian tries to avert an Indian war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
Million Dollar Legs
Overview: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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Two Latins from Manhattan
1941-10-02
Two Latins from Manhattan
Overview: Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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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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Riptide
1934-03-29
Riptide
Overview: Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
1935-05-21
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-21
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Invisible Stripes
1939-12-30
Invisible Stripes
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
Movie Crazy
Overview: After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Laat de dokter maar schuiven
1980-03-27
Laat de dokter maar schuiven
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1980-03-27
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