Olaf Hytten
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Birthday: March 03, 1888
Deathday: March 11, 1955
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One Night of Love
1934-07-16
One Night of Love
Overview: Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942-03-13
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Overview: Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Drums of Fu Manchu
1940-03-15
Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Drums of Fu Manchu
1943-11-27
Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: Feature version of the 1940 Republic serial, about Fu Manchu's attempt to conquer Asia.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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The Secret Of St. Ives
1949-06-30
The Secret Of St. Ives
Overview: A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Overview: American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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Shakedown
1936-07-17
Shakedown
Overview: A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Easy Living
1937-07-16
Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942-09-18
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Overview: England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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The Woman in Green
1945-06-15
The Woman in Green
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-15
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Lady Killer
1933-12-09
Lady Killer
Overview: An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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The Wolf Man
1941-12-12
The Wolf Man
Overview: After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
To Be or Not to Be
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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She-Wolf of London
1946-05-17
She-Wolf of London
Overview: A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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That Hamilton Woman
1941-04-03
That Hamilton Woman
Overview: The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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Allegheny Uprising
1939-11-10
Allegheny Uprising
Overview: South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
Genres: Western Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944-06-09
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Overview: A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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The Little Minister
1934-12-28
The Little Minister
Overview: The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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The Suspect
1945-01-31
The Suspect
Overview: Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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Bells of San Angelo
1947-04-15
Bells of San Angelo
Overview: Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-15
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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Becky Sharp
1935-06-28
Becky Sharp
Overview: The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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National Velvet
1945-01-26
National Velvet
Overview: Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-26
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Pursuit to Algiers
1945-10-26
Pursuit to Algiers
Overview: After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-26
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Jimmy the Gent
1934-03-09
Jimmy the Gent
Overview: An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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The Scarlet Claw
1944-05-18
The Scarlet Claw
Overview: When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
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All the World's a Stooge
1941-05-16
All the World's a Stooge
Overview: The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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My Name Is Julia Ross
1945-11-08
My Name Is Julia Ross
Overview: Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938-05-13
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936-10-20
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-20
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Dressed to Kill
1946-05-24
Dressed to Kill
Overview: A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-24
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
1943-09-17
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Overview: During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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Christmas in Connecticut
1945-07-27
Christmas in Connecticut
Overview: While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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Happiness Ahead
1934-10-27
Happiness Ahead
Overview: Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-27
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Secrets of an Actress
1938-09-10
Secrets of an Actress
Overview: Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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Angel
1937-10-29
Angel
Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Detective Kitty O'Day
1944-05-13
Detective Kitty O'Day
Overview: Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-13
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The Impatient Maiden
1932-03-01
The Impatient Maiden
Overview: A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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The House on 56th Street
1933-12-23
The House on 56th Street
Overview: A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Overview: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Les Miserables
1952-08-14
Les Miserables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-14
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Berkeley Square
1933-09-15
Berkeley Square
Overview: A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941-09-20
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937-07-02
The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938-05-25
The Lone Wolf in Paris
Overview: Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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The White Shadow
1924-05-05
The White Shadow
Overview: The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2012.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-05
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Daughter of the Dragon
1931-09-24
Daughter of the Dragon
Overview: At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-24
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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
1933-04-06
Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Overview: A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-06
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Grumpy
1930-08-01
Grumpy
Overview: An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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The Imperfect Lady
1946-11-29
The Imperfect Lady
Overview: A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-29
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With Love and Kisses
1936-12-06
With Love and Kisses
Overview: A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-06
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Fort Ti
1953-04-30
Fort Ti
Overview: Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Chu-Chin-Chow
1924-05-15
Chu-Chin-Chow
Overview: In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-15
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Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25
Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Dangerous Holiday
1937-06-06
Dangerous Holiday
Overview: A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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The Masquerader
1933-09-03
The Masquerader
Overview: A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-03
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947-04-25
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Overview: A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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Leave It to the Irish
1944-08-26
Leave It to the Irish
Overview: A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-26
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Alias Mr. Twilight
1946-12-24
Alias Mr. Twilight
Overview: Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-24
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The Lodger
1944-01-19
The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Souls at Sea
1937-09-03
Souls at Sea
Overview: Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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When Ladies Meet
1941-08-29
When Ladies Meet
Overview: Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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Black Beauty
1946-08-29
Black Beauty
Overview: Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-29
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Casablanca
1943-01-15
Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941-09-20
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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The Brighton Strangler
1945-05-10
The Brighton Strangler
Overview: After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Washington Melodrama
1941-04-17
Washington Melodrama
Overview: An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Television Spy
1939-10-20
Television Spy
Overview: A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Blond Cheat
1938-06-17
Blond Cheat
Overview: Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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White Hunter
1936-11-25
White Hunter
Overview: Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Red Morning
1934-12-14
Red Morning
Overview: A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Doughnuts and Society
1936-03-27
Doughnuts and Society
Overview: Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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Strange Wives
1934-11-30
Strange Wives
Overview: When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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The Grand Bounce
1937-05-22
The Grand Bounce
Overview: A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is used to pay several debts until...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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The Painted Veil
1934-11-23
The Painted Veil
Overview: The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Trapped by the Mormons
1922-01-01
Trapped by the Mormons
Overview: Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938-09-22
Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Ebb Tide
1937-11-17
Ebb Tide
Overview: In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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We Have Our Moments
1937-03-28
We Have Our Moments
Overview: A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-28
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Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Great Commandment
1939-10-02
The Great Commandment
Overview: Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-02
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The Lady and the Mob
1939-04-03
The Lady and the Mob
Overview: Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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Journal of a Crime
1934-03-10
Journal of a Crime
Overview: A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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Two Sinners
1935-09-12
Two Sinners
Overview: An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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The Blonde from Singapore
1941-10-15
The Blonde from Singapore
Overview: Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-15
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The White Angel
1936-06-25
The White Angel
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938-11-25
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Playboy of Paris
1930-10-18
Playboy of Paris
Overview: Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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Born to Love
1931-04-17
Born to Love
Overview: A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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I Cover the War!
1937-07-04
I Cover the War!
Overview: Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-04
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The Little Princess
1939-03-17
The Little Princess
Overview: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Broadway Serenade
1939-04-07
Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07
The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Sun Never Sets
1939-05-31
The Sun Never Sets
Overview: The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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We Are Not Alone
1939-11-25
We Are Not Alone
Overview: A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-25
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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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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930-05-02
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Overview: The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-02
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The Man Called Back
1932-07-16
The Man Called Back
Overview: Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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House of Frankenstein
1944-12-01
House of Frankenstein
Overview: Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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London Blackout Murders
1943-01-15
London Blackout Murders
Overview: A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1933-05-06
The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-06
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Design for Living
1933-12-29
Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Bonnie Scotland
1935-08-23
Bonnie Scotland
Overview: Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Shock
1934-07-19
Shock
Overview: Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-19
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Libeled Lady
1936-10-09
Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Calling Philo Vance
Overview: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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Bedtime Story
1941-12-25
Bedtime Story
Overview: A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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The Earl of Chicago
1940-01-05
The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946-02-14
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Overview: Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Gaucho Serenade
1940-05-09
Gaucho Serenade
Overview: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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The Better 'Ole
1926-10-23
The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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Spy Ship
1942-06-06
Spy Ship
Overview: A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-06
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The Salvation Hunters
1925-02-15
The Salvation Hunters
Overview: A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Overview: The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
The Florentine Dagger
Overview: A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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No Time for Comedy
1940-09-14
No Time for Comedy
Overview: An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-14
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The Howards of Virginia
1940-09-19
The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Arise, My Love
1940-11-08
Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Scotland Yard Investigator
1945-09-30
Scotland Yard Investigator
Overview: A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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Captain Caution
1940-08-09
Captain Caution
Overview: When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Overview: In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-02
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Sons o' Guns
1936-05-13
Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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Murder in the Private Car
1934-06-29
Murder in the Private Car
Overview: Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
Genres: Mystery Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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Beauty and the Boss
1932-04-09
Beauty and the Boss
Overview: An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Our Leading Citizen
1939-08-23
Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-23
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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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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939-07-21
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Overview: Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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The City of Play
1929-07-01
The City of Play
Overview: A British drama film directed by Denison Clift
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-01
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A Christmas Carol
1938-12-16
A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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The House of a Thousand Candles
1936-04-02
The House of a Thousand Candles
Overview: The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-02
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Eagle Squadron
1942-06-16
Eagle Squadron
Overview: An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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The Great Impersonation
1942-12-18
The Great Impersonation
Overview: An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Destination Unknown
1942-10-09
Destination Unknown
Overview: Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
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First Lady
1937-12-04
First Lady
Overview: A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-04
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The Good Earth
1937-06-02
The Good Earth
Overview: China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-02
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The Bill of Rights
1939-08-19
The Bill of Rights
Overview: This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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The Last of the Mohicans
1936-07-02
The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-02
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Perils of the Jungle
1953-03-19
Perils of the Jungle
Overview: On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter but her animals are wiped out by a fire. Despite interference by rival dealer Gorman, who hopes to ruin Jo, Beatty saves her business by helping her to capture an adult gorilla. (2nd story) When Grant is bitten by a tsetse fly and falls ill, Beatty heads for the nearest hospital through the territory of the dangerous Matabeles tribe. They are captured and condemned to death by Grubbs, a white man living with the tribe and stealing their gold. Using the Matabele Boy King as a shield, Beatty and Grant make an escape and Grubbs is forced to accompany them, leaving his loot behind.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-19
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The Return of the Vampire
1943-11-11
The Return of the Vampire
Overview: In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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Arsène Lupin
1932-02-26
Arsène Lupin
Overview: A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Lord Jeff
1938-06-17
Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Shanghai Chest
1948-07-11
The Shanghai Chest
Overview: Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935-12-19
The Widow from Monte Carlo
Overview: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-19
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What Every Woman Knows
1934-10-18
What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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Three Strangers
1946-01-28
Three Strangers
Overview: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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Let's Talk It Over
1934-06-01
Let's Talk It Over
Overview: A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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A Feather in Her Hat
1935-10-25
A Feather in Her Hat
Overview: After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Lucky Jordan
1942-11-16
Lucky Jordan
Overview: Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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She Couldn't Take It
1935-10-08
She Couldn't Take It
Overview: The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-08
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The Wonderful Story
1922-05-05
The Wonderful Story
Overview: A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-05
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Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
Rulers of the Sea
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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It Is the Law
1924-08-31
It Is the Law
Overview: This silent mystery is considered a lost film.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934-08-15
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
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The Wet Parade
1932-03-26
The Wet Parade
Overview: The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Ship Cafe
1935-11-09
Ship Cafe
Overview: The singing stoker and the vamp.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Newly Rich
1931-07-02
Newly Rich
Overview: Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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Oh, What a Night!
1944-09-02
Oh, What a Night!
Overview: An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-02
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This Above All
1942-05-12
This Above All
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
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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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Kitty
1929-06-15
Kitty
Overview: Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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Trouble for Two
1936-05-29
Trouble for Two
Overview: A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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California Straight Ahead
1937-04-16
California Straight Ahead
Overview: A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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The Garden Murder Case
1936-02-21
The Garden Murder Case
Overview: Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Moonstone
1934-08-20
The Moonstone
Overview: A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-20
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Footsteps in the Dark
1941-03-08
Footsteps in the Dark
Overview: A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-08
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Kidnapped
1948-11-28
Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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The Stockbroker's Clerk
1922-03-01
The Stockbroker's Clerk
Overview: An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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Double or Nothing
1937-09-17
Double or Nothing
Overview: A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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The Black Swan
1942-12-04
The Black Swan
Overview: When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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For Beauty's Sake
1941-06-06
For Beauty's Sake
Overview: A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951-10-31
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Genres: Crime Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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Money Means Nothing
1934-06-14
Money Means Nothing
Overview: At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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Clive of India
1935-01-25
Clive of India
Overview: Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Les Misérables
1935-04-20
Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Out to Win
1923-08-01
Out to Win
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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A Gamble with Hearts
1923-06-01
A Gamble with Hearts
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Platinum Blonde
1931-10-31
Platinum Blonde
Overview: Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-31
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The Crimson Circle
1922-09-01
The Crimson Circle
Overview: Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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The Knave of Diamonds
1921-07-01
The Knave of Diamonds
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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The Cause of all the Trouble
1923-05-01
The Cause of all the Trouble
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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Parnell
1937-06-04
Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Master And Man
1929-02-02
Master And Man
Overview: A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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