William Henry
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Albert Henry (November 10, 1914 – August 10, 1982) was an American actor working in Hollywood movies. Born in Los Angeles in 1914, Henry started as a child actor, then was a hero in B-movies (mainly westerns), and ended his career as a character actor. He also appeared in various roles on episodes of many TV series. He was a member of the John Ford Stock Company and appeared 12 times for Ford. Henry was active with the Pasadena Community Playhouse. His brother was the character actor Thomas Browne Henry. Henry was married and divorced twice. His first marriage was to Grace Durkin, with whom he had son Michael and daughter Michele. His and his second wife, Barbara Knudson, were the parents of William "Bill" Henry, Jr. (b. 1958).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 10, 1914
Deathday: August 10, 1982
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The Thin Man
1934-05-25
The Thin Man
Overview: A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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Women in the Night
1948-01-02
Women in the Night
Overview: During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Secret of the Incas
1954-06-06
Secret of the Incas
Overview: Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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Madame X
1937-10-01
Madame X
Overview: An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Hollywood Thrill-Makers
1954-01-15
Hollywood Thrill-Makers
Overview: Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15
Cheyenne Autumn
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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New Orleans Uncensored
1955-03-01
New Orleans Uncensored
Overview: William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
1946-09-03
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Overview: Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Tarzan Escapes
1936-11-06
Tarzan Escapes
Overview: White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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A Life at Stake
1955-03-01
A Life at Stake
Overview: An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Gunpoint
1966-04-25
Gunpoint
Overview: A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-25
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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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Taggart
1965-02-01
Taggart
Overview: Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15
Blossoms in the Dust
Overview: Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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Mama Runs Wild
1937-12-22
Mama Runs Wild
Overview: Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Navy Way
1944-02-26
The Navy Way
Overview: The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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A Gentleman After Dark
1942-04-16
A Gentleman After Dark
Overview: A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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Three Bad Sisters
1956-01-01
Three Bad Sisters
Overview: Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944-07-20
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Overview: A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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Federal Man
1950-06-21
Federal Man
Overview: A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Motor Patrol
1950-05-12
Motor Patrol
Overview: A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Fury of the Congo
1951-02-26
Fury of the Congo
Overview: Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-26
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The Perfect Set-Up
1936-02-01
The Perfect Set-Up
Overview: In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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Queen of the Mob
1940-06-28
Queen of the Mob
Overview: Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Stardust on the Sage
1942-05-25
Stardust on the Sage
Overview: A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-25
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The Lady and the Monster
1944-04-17
The Lady and the Monster
Overview: A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-17
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Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
Exclusive Story
Overview: A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Silent Partner
1944-06-09
Silent Partner
Overview: A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Seven Ways from Sundown
1960-09-25
Seven Ways from Sundown
Overview: A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-25
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Women in Bondage
1943-12-16
Women in Bondage
Overview: Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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A Wicked Woman
1934-12-07
A Wicked Woman
Overview: A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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A Man to Remember
1938-10-14
A Man to Remember
Overview: On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Tornado
1943-08-09
Tornado
Overview: The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-09
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Uranium Boom
1956-03-02
Uranium Boom
Overview: Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-02
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Man Afraid
1957-04-04
Man Afraid
Overview: A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-04
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Sweater Girl
1942-07-13
Sweater Girl
Overview: College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
Genres: Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-13
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Klondike Fury
1942-03-20
Klondike Fury
Overview: In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Sarong Girl
1943-06-11
Sarong Girl
Overview: A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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Dance Hall
1941-07-18
Dance Hall
Overview: Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe Brooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-18
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Gunsmoke in Tucson
1958-12-07
Gunsmoke in Tucson
Overview: As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an outlaw and leader of the feared Blue Chip Gang. John goes the other way and becomes a U.S. Marshal. Two brothers on opposite sides of the law, destined to become embroiled in an Arizona range war between cattlemen and farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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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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Four Men and a Prayer
1938-04-29
Four Men and a Prayer
Overview: The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Society Doctor
1935-01-25
Society Doctor
Overview: Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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What Do You Think?
1937-11-25
What Do You Think?
Overview: The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including thinking for a moment that he sees a woman's body in his bed, having his car key not work, and thinking he hears his mother calling, delay his departure from home by almost a minute. When tragedy strikes close by, John revisits the morning's events. A phone call from his brother in Chicago confirms how odd this morning is. Did John experience telepathy or was it all coincidence? If radio waves can carry a communication, why not a mother's love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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The Alamo
1960-10-23
The Alamo
Overview: The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Genres: War Adventure History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-23
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Geronimo
1939-11-26
Geronimo
Overview: The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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Sergeant Rutledge
1960-05-25
Sergeant Rutledge
Overview: Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Alaska Highway
1943-06-24
Alaska Highway
Overview: Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Coswell, the daughter of road engineer Blair Caswell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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China Seas
1935-08-09
China Seas
Overview: Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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A Bullet for Joey
1955-04-15
A Bullet for Joey
Overview: Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Jungle Moon Men
1955-04-08
Jungle Moon Men
Overview: Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-08
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Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
Parole Fixer
Overview: This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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The Walls Have Eyes
1969-02-15
The Walls Have Eyes
Overview: The True Vue Motel is a rendezvous for couples looking for a few hours of "playtime." Unbeknownst to them, the motel's manager has hidden cameras in the rooms and films all of the encounters, then blackmails the victims.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-15
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Cherokee Strip
1940-10-10
Cherokee Strip
Overview: Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Going My Way
1944-01-01
Going My Way
Overview: Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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G.I. War Brides
1946-08-12
G.I. War Brides
Overview: Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-12
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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
1953-07-08
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Overview: A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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Calaboose
1943-01-29
Calaboose
Overview: A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-29
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
1958-06-04
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Overview: Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-04
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Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Johnny Come Lately
1943-09-03
Johnny Come Lately
Overview: Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-03
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The Arizona Wildcat
1939-02-11
The Arizona Wildcat
Overview: In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Ambush
1939-01-20
Ambush
Overview: Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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Campus Confessions
1938-09-23
Campus Confessions
Overview: This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Persons in Hiding
1939-02-10
Persons in Hiding
Overview: During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941-08-22
Scattergood Meets Broadway
Overview: Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943-05-14
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Overview: A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Rubber Racketeers
1942-06-26
Rubber Racketeers
Overview: Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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Nearly Eighteen
1943-11-12
Nearly Eighteen
Overview: A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1956-10-02
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
Overview: Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their father will let them work on one of his cases. Disappointed when he tells them his work is too dangerous for children, they are more determined than ever to follow in their dad's footsteps, and solve mysteries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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I'm from Missouri
1939-04-06
I'm from Missouri
Overview: Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-06
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Torpedo Alley
1953-12-25
Torpedo Alley
Overview: After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Commander Heywood for the affection of Navy nurse Lt Susan Peabody. Heywood gets a new sub command at the outbreak of the Korean war and Bingham is assigned to his sub.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Death Valley Gunfighter
1949-03-29
Death Valley Gunfighter
Overview: Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining project has been killed by outlaws trying to gain possession of the mine. The other brother Nugget Clark wants no part of the law, and is particularly set against the young sheriff courting his niece Trudy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
Two Rode Together
Overview: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The Invisible Informer
1946-08-19
The Invisible Informer
Overview: An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-19
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Call of the South Seas
1944-04-07
Call of the South Seas
Overview: FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-07
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Spook Chasers
1957-06-02
Spook Chasers
Overview: Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-02
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The Old Frontier
1950-07-20
The Old Frontier
Overview: Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-20
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Trail to San Antone
1947-01-25
Trail to San Antone
Overview: Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953-02-01
Marshal of Cedar Rock
Overview: Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Thundering Caravans
1952-06-20
Thundering Caravans
Overview: Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-20
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The Denver Kid
1948-09-30
The Denver Kid
Overview: When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer. To clear the Robert's name for his boss, Lieutenant Rocky Lane heads south of the border posing as an outlaw. He hopes to get in with the gang and find Tim who is using an assumed name. As always, Nugget is there to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Savage Frontier
1953-05-15
Savage Frontier
Overview: Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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The Great Glover
1942-12-26
The Great Glover
Overview: Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-26
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His Girl's Worst Friend
1943-05-14
His Girl's Worst Friend
Overview: On the last day of the semester, Terry (Henry) and his pals enroll for a summer aviation course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Socks Appeal
1943-02-20
Socks Appeal
Overview: Terry (Henry) is the proprietor of the college service shop; his rival tries to ruin his business and steal his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-20
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The Fabulous Suzanne
1946-12-15
The Fabulous Suzanne
Overview: Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for investing her money. Her stock broker tries to dissuade her, but she persists and her investments increases her wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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False Faces
1943-05-28
False Faces
Overview: A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Paris Follies of 1956
1955-11-27
Paris Follies of 1956
Overview: Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-27
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Yellow Jack
1938-05-19
Yellow Jack
Overview: A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Genres: Drama History Mystery Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-19
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The Harder They Fall
1956-05-08
The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Pardon My Stripes
1942-01-26
Pardon My Stripes
Overview: Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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The Perfect Tribute
1935-08-15
The Perfect Tribute
Overview: The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-15
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Mister Roberts
1955-07-10
Mister Roberts
Overview: Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-10
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El Dorado
1966-12-17
El Dorado
Overview: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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The Female Animal
1958-01-22
The Female Animal
Overview: Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
The Horse Soldiers
Overview: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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