Eddie Acuff
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddie Acuff (June 3, 1908 – December 17, 1956) was an American actor. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Acuff was born Edward DeKalb Acuff in Caruthersville, Missouri. His maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats along the Mississippi River. Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, Acuff performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. His Broadway credits include Jayhawker (1934), Yellow Jack (1934), John Brown (1934), Growing Pains (1933), Heat Lightning (1933), and The Dark Hours (1932). He was seen in three film serials — as Curly in Jungle Girl, as Red Kelly, in Daredevils of the West, and as Spud Warner in Chick Carter Detective. On December 17, 1956, Acuff died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 03, 1908
Deathday: December 17, 1956
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It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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Leave It to Blondie
1945-02-22
Leave It to Blondie
Overview: Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with beautiful music teacher Rita Rogers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Life with Blondie
1945-12-13
Life with Blondie
Overview: Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as master of the house is jeopardized. Meanwhile all the attention catches the greedy eyes of gangsters who try and abduct Daisy!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-13
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Blondie's Big Moment
1947-01-09
Blondie's Big Moment
Overview: Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As usual - disaster ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-09
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Blondie's Secret
1948-12-23
Blondie's Secret
Overview: Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a couple of thugs to steal Blondie and Dagwood's luggage so that they'll have to stay in town. And that's only the beginning of the frantic fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Blondie in the Dough
1947-10-16
Blondie in the Dough
Overview: BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-16
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Blondie's Big Deal
1949-03-04
Blondie's Big Deal
Overview: Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
The Cowboy and the Lady
Overview: Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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Rough Riders' Round-up
1939-03-13
Rough Riders' Round-up
Overview: Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-13
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The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
The Walking Dead
Overview: Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-09-01
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Overview: Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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The Flying Serpent
1946-02-01
The Flying Serpent
Overview: A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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Hollywood Hotel
1938-01-15
Hollywood Hotel
Overview: After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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The Traitor Within
1942-12-16
The Traitor Within
Overview: In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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The Phantom Creeps
1939-01-07
The Phantom Creeps
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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Bad Man of Deadwood
1941-09-05
Bad Man of Deadwood
Overview: Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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Slippy McGee
1948-01-15
Slippy McGee
Overview: A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
The Petrified Forest
Overview: Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-08
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Chick Carter, Detective
1946-07-11
Chick Carter, Detective
Overview: Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-11
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Four Daughters
1938-08-09
Four Daughters
Overview: Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-09
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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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They Won't Forget
1937-07-14
They Won't Forget
Overview: A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-14
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Can't Help Singing
1944-12-25
Can't Help Singing
Overview: With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941-05-02
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Overview: An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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Stop, You're Killing Me
1952-12-10
Stop, You're Killing Me
Overview: With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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The Hidden Eye
1945-08-31
The Hidden Eye
Overview: A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-31
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Mississippi Gambler
1942-04-17
Mississippi Gambler
Overview: A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
1951-10-10
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
Overview: The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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Flight at Midnight
1939-08-28
Flight at Midnight
Overview: Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Genres: Action Romance Music Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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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 Cowboy Quarterback
1939-07-29
The Cowboy Quarterback
Overview: Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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Love Is on the Air
1937-10-02
Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
1936-07-03
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Overview: Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-03
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Miss Pacific Fleet
1935-12-14
Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Shipmates Forever
1935-10-12
Shipmates Forever
Overview: An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-12
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Guns of the Pecos
1936-12-28
Guns of the Pecos
Overview: A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-28
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Between Two Women
1945-03-28
Between Two Women
Overview: A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-28
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What Price Vengeance
1937-05-25
What Price Vengeance
Overview: A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-25
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Rhythm of the Saddle
1938-11-06
Rhythm of the Saddle
Overview: Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-06
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949-10-20
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Overview: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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The Outer Gate
1937-08-04
The Outer Gate
Overview: Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Wake Up and Dream
1946-12-02
Wake Up and Dream
Overview: Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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The Bamboo Blonde
1946-07-15
The Bamboo Blonde
Overview: A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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Law of the Underworld
1938-05-06
Law of the Underworld
Overview: A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Spring Parade
1940-09-27
Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Shooting High
1940-04-25
Shooting High
Overview: A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Genres: Music Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Something for the Boys
1944-11-01
Something for the Boys
Overview: The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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She Loved a Fireman
1937-12-18
She Loved a Fireman
Overview: A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The Wagons Roll at Night
1941-04-25
The Wagons Roll at Night
Overview: An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The Law in Her Hands
1936-05-16
The Law in Her Hands
Overview: A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-16
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Leather Gloves
1948-11-11
Leather Gloves
Overview: A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Meet Me on Broadway
1946-01-26
Meet Me on Broadway
Overview: Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise when Maxine Whitaker, daughter of a wealthy rival club owner, becomes romantically interested in charming Eddie.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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Daredevils of the West
1943-05-01
Daredevils of the West
Overview: A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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Back in Circulation
1937-08-27
Back in Circulation
Overview: Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Girls of the Road
1940-07-24
Girls of the Road
Overview: A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Meet Dr. Christian
1939-11-17
Meet Dr. Christian
Overview: The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Smashing the Rackets
1938-08-08
Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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The Invisible Menace
1938-01-11
The Invisible Menace
Overview: Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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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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Next Time I Marry
1938-12-09
Next Time I Marry
Overview: Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Colleen
1936-03-21
Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Laughing at Trouble
1936-12-11
Laughing at Trouble
Overview: A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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The Bank Dick
1940-11-29
The Bank Dick
Overview: Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940-10-11
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Overview: Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Honeymoon Ahead
1945-05-11
Honeymoon Ahead
Overview: When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-11
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The Mysterious Miss X
1939-01-10
The Mysterious Miss X
Overview: After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Wings of the Navy
1939-02-11
Wings of the Navy
Overview: Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Blondie Meets the Boss
1939-03-08
Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Blind Alley
1939-05-11
Blind Alley
Overview: A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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The Singing Marine
1937-07-03
The Singing Marine
Overview: Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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Days of Jesse James
1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James
Overview: Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Rags to Riches
1941-07-31
Rags to Riches
Overview: A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-31
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Belle of the Yukon
1944-12-27
Belle of the Yukon
Overview: Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-27
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Missing Witnesses
1937-12-11
Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Swing the Western Way
1947-06-25
Swing the Western Way
Overview: Swing the Western Way
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Flame of Barbary Coast
1945-05-28
Flame of Barbary Coast
Overview: Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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Bride by Mistake
1944-07-26
Bride by Mistake
Overview: The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-26
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Headin' for God's Country
1943-08-26
Headin' for God's Country
Overview: In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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The Golden Arrow
1936-05-23
The Golden Arrow
Overview: A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940-12-24
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Overview: Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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Charlie Chan in Panama
1940-03-01
Charlie Chan in Panama
Overview: Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Jailbreak
1936-08-05
Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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What's Cookin'?
1942-02-20
What's Cookin'?
Overview: J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-20
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Society Smugglers
1939-03-01
Society Smugglers
Overview: The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Bungalow 13
1948-11-19
Bungalow 13
Overview: In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-19
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Ladies in Distress
1938-06-13
Ladies in Distress
Overview: Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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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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The Sea of Grass
1947-04-25
The Sea of Grass
Overview: On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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Here Comes the Navy
1934-07-21
Here Comes the Navy
Overview: A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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The Border Legion
1940-12-05
The Border Legion
Overview: Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940-12-13
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Buck Benny Rides Again
1940-05-31
Buck Benny Rides Again
Overview: Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Girl Trouble
1942-10-09
Girl Trouble
Overview: A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944-05-04
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Overview: Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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It's a Date
1940-03-22
It's a Date
Overview: An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Talent Scout
1937-07-24
Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Flowing Gold
1940-08-24
Flowing Gold
Overview: In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-24
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One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
One Night in the Tropics
Overview: Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Overview: A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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The Boys from Syracuse
1940-07-30
The Boys from Syracuse
Overview: The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Cafe Hostess
1940-01-11
Cafe Hostess
Overview: A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942-02-04
Dr. Kildare's Victory
Overview: Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-04
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Take a Letter, Darling
1942-05-06
Take a Letter, Darling
Overview: A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-06
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Exposed
1947-09-08
Exposed
Overview: A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-08
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941-01-14
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Overview: Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-14
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
1947-12-15
Bandits of Dark Canyon
Overview: As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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The Timber Trail
1948-06-14
The Timber Trail
Overview: Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-14
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Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942-08-01
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Overview: Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Dutiful But Dumb
1941-03-21
Dutiful But Dumb
Overview: The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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How to Watch Football
1938-10-07
How to Watch Football
Overview: Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Lost Angel
1943-12-23
Lost Angel
Overview: Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-23
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Without Love
1945-03-22
Without Love
Overview: In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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Fall In
1942-11-20
Fall In
Overview: An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Mr. District Attorney
1941-03-27
Mr. District Attorney
Overview: An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-27
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Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942-04-17
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Overview: A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
Too Busy to Work
Overview: The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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On Dress Parade
1939-11-18
On Dress Parade
Overview: The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-18
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Blonde Alibi
1946-03-01
Blonde Alibi
Overview: Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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Crash Donovan
1936-08-01
Crash Donovan
Overview: A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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South of Dixie
1944-06-23
South of Dixie
Overview: To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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The Chaser
1938-07-29
The Chaser
Overview: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Johnny Allegro
1949-05-26
Johnny Allegro
Overview: Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
1940-03-15
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Overview: In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Pardon My Sarong
1942-08-07
Pardon My Sarong
Overview: A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Black Legion
1937-01-30
Black Legion
Overview: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
Money and the Woman
Overview: An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-17
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Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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A Very Young Lady
1941-06-27
A Very Young Lady
Overview: A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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On Stage Everybody
1945-07-13
On Stage Everybody
Overview: Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Her Lucky Night
1945-02-09
Her Lucky Night
Overview: In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-09
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The Jungle Captive
1945-06-25
The Jungle Captive
Overview: Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-25
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Sailor's Lady
1940-07-05
Sailor's Lady
Overview: Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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She Gets Her Man
1945-01-12
She Gets Her Man
Overview: The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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In This Our Life
1942-05-08
In This Our Life
Overview: An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Here Comes Happiness
1941-03-15
Here Comes Happiness
Overview: Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-15
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Guadalcanal Diary
1943-10-27
Guadalcanal Diary
Overview: Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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Suddenly It's Spring
1947-02-13
Suddenly It's Spring
Overview: A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942-11-01
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Overview: The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-01
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Let's Make a Million
1936-09-01
Let's Make a Million
Overview: A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Blondie Goes Latin
1941-02-27
Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Two Bright Boys
1939-09-21
Two Bright Boys
Overview: A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-21
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Blondie's Holiday
1947-04-10
Blondie's Holiday
Overview: Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-10
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Blondie's Reward
1948-06-03
Blondie's Reward
Overview: After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-03
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Jungle Girl
1941-06-21
Jungle Girl
Overview: Dr. John Meredith has been driven from civilization by the criminal activities of his twin brother Bradley Meredith. With his infant daughter, he settles in the African jungle, where his ability to cure the native ills has resulted in his virtual control of the Masamba tribes, who possess vast diamond mines coveted by a gang of crooks.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-21
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She's in the Army
1942-05-15
She's in the Army
Overview: A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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The Phantom Creeps
1949-06-06
The Phantom Creeps
Overview: An edited version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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Fly By Night
1942-01-19
Fly By Night
Overview: Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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Black Bart
1948-02-17
Black Bart
Overview: Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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Lady in the Lake
1946-12-19
Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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I Found Stella Parish
1935-11-16
I Found Stella Parish
Overview: A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-16
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