Wilton Graff
Biography: Wilton Graff (13 August 1903 – 13 January 1969) was an American actor. He was born as Wilton Calvert Ratcliffe on 13 August 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, US. He died in Pacific Palisades, California on 13 January 1969.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 13, 1903
Deathday: January 13, 1969
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A Woman's Vengeance
1948-03-02
A Woman's Vengeance
Overview: A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-02
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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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Bloodlust!
1961-09-13
Bloodlust!
Overview: Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950-05-19
Fortunes of Captain Blood
Overview: When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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Earl of Puddlestone
1940-08-31
Earl of Puddlestone
Overview: When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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The Web
1947-06-04
The Web
Overview: A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-04
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A Double Life
1947-12-25
A Double Life
Overview: A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Compulsion
1959-04-01
Compulsion
Overview: Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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The Benny Goodman Story
1956-02-02
The Benny Goodman Story
Overview: Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-02
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Lili
1953-03-10
Lili
Overview: Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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The Dark Past
1948-12-22
The Dark Past
Overview: A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Miss Sadie Thompson
1953-12-23
Miss Sadie Thompson
Overview: Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Sail A Crooked Ship
1961-12-01
Sail A Crooked Ship
Overview: A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Gentleman from Nowhere
1948-09-09
The Gentleman from Nowhere
Overview: Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-09
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Key Witness
1947-10-09
Key Witness
Overview: A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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The Unknown
1946-07-04
The Unknown
Overview: "The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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King Richard and the Crusaders
1954-08-07
King Richard and the Crusaders
Overview: Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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The West Point Story
1950-11-25
The West Point Story
Overview: A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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Shadowed
1946-09-26
Shadowed
Overview: Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-26
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The Phantom Thief
1946-05-02
The Phantom Thief
Overview: Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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The I Don't Care Girl
1953-01-14
The I Don't Care Girl
Overview: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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Valley of the Zombies
1946-05-26
Valley of the Zombies
Overview: A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Springfield Rifle
1952-10-22
Springfield Rifle
Overview: Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-22
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Mask of the Avenger
1951-06-27
Mask of the Avenger
Overview: Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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Once More, My Darling
1949-09-10
Once More, My Darling
Overview: An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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Operation Secret
1952-11-05
Operation Secret
Overview: After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-05
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Scandal at Scourie
1953-05-17
Scandal at Scourie
Overview: After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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Fearless Fagan
1952-08-15
Fearless Fagan
Overview: A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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The Mozart Story
1948-11-13
The Mozart Story
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Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-13
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948-04-09
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Overview: A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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They Won't Believe Me
1947-07-16
They Won't Believe Me
Overview: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1947-09-04
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-04
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Caught
1949-02-17
Caught
Overview: Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-17
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950-02-17
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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The Gallant Blade
1948-10-12
The Gallant Blade
Overview: Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
Just Before Dawn
Overview: In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-07
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The Return of the Whistler
1948-03-18
The Return of the Whistler
Overview: When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Pillow of Death
1945-12-14
Pillow of Death
Overview: Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
Genres: Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
1948-02-04
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Overview: The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-04
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The Screen Writer
1950-09-13
The Screen Writer
Overview: This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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Traffic in Crime
1946-06-28
Traffic in Crime
Overview: Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-28
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Earl Carroll Vanities
1945-04-05
Earl Carroll Vanities
Overview: Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Avalanche
1946-06-30
Avalanche
Overview: Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-30
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Return to Peyton Place
1961-05-05
Return to Peyton Place
Overview: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-05
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Something of Value
1957-05-08
Something of Value
Overview: As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947-06-02
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Overview: Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-02
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Million Dollar Mermaid
1952-12-04
Million Dollar Mermaid
Overview: After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Strange Confession
1945-10-05
Strange Confession
Overview: A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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Reign of Terror
1949-10-15
Reign of Terror
Overview: The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-15
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Young Man with Ideas
1952-05-02
Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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High Conquest
1947-06-21
High Conquest
Overview: Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-21
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Another Part of the Forest
1948-05-18
Another Part of the Forest
Overview: This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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A Royal Scandal
1945-03-26
A Royal Scandal
Overview: Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-26
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The Sea Chase
1955-06-04
The Sea Chase
Overview: As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-04
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
1957-09-06
Tip on a Dead Jockey
Overview: Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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Gangs of the Waterfront
1945-07-03
Gangs of the Waterfront
Overview: Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-03
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My True Story
1951-03-08
My True Story
Overview: Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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