Robert Middlemass
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Middlemass (3 September 1883, New Britain, Connecticut – 10 September 1949, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances. usually playing detectives or policemen. Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H. E. Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940. The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today. Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949.
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Birthday: September 03, 1883
Deathday: September 10, 1949
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Excuse the Pardon
1930-10-10
Excuse the Pardon
Overview: A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Hideaway Girl
1936-11-20
Hideaway Girl
Overview: An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939-11-08
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Overview: Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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One Way Ticket
1935-11-25
One Way Ticket
Overview: A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-25
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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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A Day at the Races
1937-06-11
A Day at the Races
Overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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A Sporting Chance
1945-06-02
A Sporting Chance
Overview: After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes executor and manager of his shipyards, in accordance with his will. Reardon's spoiled niece, society girl Pamela Herrick, will inherit her uncle's entire estate on condition that she hold a job at the shipyards for a year on her own merit. Steve is to be the sole judge of her actions and decide whether she will receive her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-02
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Lady in the Death House
1944-03-15
Lady in the Death House
Overview: As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-15
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Grand Exit
1935-10-25
Grand Exit
Overview: A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07
The Saint Takes Over
Overview: The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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The Black Raven
1943-05-31
The Black Raven
Overview: One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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I Am the Law
1938-08-25
I Am the Law
Overview: With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-25
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While New York Sleeps
1938-12-16
While New York Sleeps
Overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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No Hands on the Clock
1941-12-01
No Hands on the Clock
Overview: A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Miracle Money
1938-03-26
Miracle Money
Overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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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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Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26
Cain and Mabel
Overview: A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-26
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You May Be Next!
1936-02-05
You May Be Next!
Overview: Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Air Hawks
1935-05-07
Air Hawks
Overview: A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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Hats Off
1936-12-05
Hats Off
Overview: The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-05
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Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25
Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Little Old New York
1940-02-09
Little Old New York
Overview: Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Meet the Boy Friend
1937-07-12
Meet the Boy Friend
Overview: A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-12
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Indianapolis Speedway
1939-08-05
Indianapolis Speedway
Overview: A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-05
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Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11
Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Studio Murder Mystery
1932-02-17
The Studio Murder Mystery
Overview: When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-17
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Good Luck - Best Wishes
1934-08-21
Good Luck - Best Wishes
Overview: Solly is in love with Jane but Jane's father can't afford a big wedding. So he schemes with Solly's father, his business partner, to stage a big quarrel that will prompt Jane and Solly to elope. Complications arise.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-21
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I Stand Accused
1938-10-29
I Stand Accused
Overview: Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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F-Man
1936-05-02
F-Man
Overview: Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
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The Lone Wolf Returns
1935-12-31
The Lone Wolf Returns
Overview: Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Party Wire
1935-04-27
Party Wire
Overview: When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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After the Dance
1935-06-25
After the Dance
Overview: Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-25
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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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Love Is a Headache
1938-01-14
Love Is a Headache
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Overview: Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-22
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Tarnished Angel
1938-10-28
Tarnished Angel
Overview: A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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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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Frankie and Johnnie
1936-04-30
Frankie and Johnnie
Overview: The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Stand Up and Fight
1939-01-06
Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Navy Blue and Gold
1937-11-19
Navy Blue and Gold
Overview: Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Coast Guard
1939-08-04
Coast Guard
Overview: Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-04
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Stanley and Livingstone
1939-08-18
Stanley and Livingstone
Overview: When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Slightly Honorable
1939-12-22
Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Blackmail
1939-09-08
Blackmail
Overview: A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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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 Arizona Kid
1939-09-28
The Arizona Kid
Overview: Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-28
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Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Kentucky
1938-12-30
Kentucky
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Main Street After Dark
1945-01-12
Main Street After Dark
Overview: A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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A Son Comes Home
1936-07-31
A Son Comes Home
Overview: A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-31
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The Payoff
1942-11-24
The Payoff
Overview: The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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Maisie
1939-06-22
Maisie
Overview: Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-22
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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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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Highway Patrol
1938-06-27
Highway Patrol
Overview: Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
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Two Against the World
1936-07-11
Two Against the World
Overview: Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-11
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General Spanky
1936-12-11
General Spanky
Overview: Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Pop Always Pays
1940-06-21
Pop Always Pays
Overview: A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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Johnny Doughboy
1942-12-31
Johnny Doughboy
Overview: As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Muss 'em Up
1936-02-13
Muss 'em Up
Overview: Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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The Awakening of Jim Burke
1935-05-18
The Awakening of Jim Burke
Overview: After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is looking forward to molding Little Jim into his own image. Jim Burke is more than a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disgusted when Little Jim arrives and it doesn't take Big Jim long to figure out that Little Jim...ain't nothing but a sissy. Little Jim is fond of practicing on his violin and reading and studying. What's a poor father to do?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-18
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The Magnificent Fraud
1939-07-19
The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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Bombardier
1943-05-14
Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Lady Scarface
1941-09-26
Lady Scarface
Overview: A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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She Couldn't Take It
1935-10-08
She Couldn't Take It
Overview: The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-08
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Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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If You Could Only Cook
1935-12-30
If You Could Only Cook
Overview: An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Road to Zanzibar
1941-04-11
Road to Zanzibar
Overview: Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Drunk Driving
1939-10-28
Drunk Driving
Overview: In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Too Tough to Kill
1935-12-20
Too Tough to Kill
Overview: A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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The Mad Miss Manton
1938-10-21
The Mad Miss Manton
Overview: When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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The Public Menace
1935-09-30
The Public Menace
Overview: 1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-30
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Torpedo Boat
1942-01-24
Torpedo Boat
Overview: Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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The Black Room
1935-07-15
The Black Room
Overview: In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-15
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