Donald Curtis
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Birthday: February 27, 1915
Deathday: May 22, 1997
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Spellbound
1945-11-08
Spellbound
Overview: When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Night Passage
1957-07-24
Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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It Came from Beneath the Sea
1955-07-01
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Overview: A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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The Amazing Mr. X
1948-07-29
The Amazing Mr. X
Overview: On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-29
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Courage of Lassie
1946-11-08
Courage of Lassie
Overview: Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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All That Heaven Allows
1955-12-25
All That Heaven Allows
Overview: Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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I Love Trouble
1948-01-15
I Love Trouble
Overview: A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
1956-07-04
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Overview: Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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They Were Expendable
1945-12-07
They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Phffft
1954-11-10
Phffft
Overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Stampede
1949-05-01
Stampede
Overview: In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked businessmen try to swindle both sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-01
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944-11-15
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Overview: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-15
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The Shanghai Story
1954-09-01
The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Flame of the Islands
1955-12-04
Flame of the Islands
Overview: A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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Warning Shot
1967-01-18
Warning Shot
Overview: Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Criminals Within
1941-06-27
Criminals Within
Overview: A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Code of the Outlaw
1942-01-30
Code of the Outlaw
Overview: After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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Gallant Bess
1946-12-05
Gallant Bess
Overview: Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
1942-06-13
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Overview: Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-13
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Secret Evidence
1941-01-31
Secret Evidence
Overview: A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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A Letter for Evie
1946-01-28
A Letter for Evie
Overview: Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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Dangerous Years
1947-12-07
Dangerous Years
Overview: Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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The Son of Davy Crockett
1941-07-15
The Son of Davy Crockett
Overview: Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-15
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Law of the Northwest
1943-05-26
Law of the Northwest
Overview: Briefly switching gears in 1942 and 1943, western star Charles Starrett made a handful of "northerns" in which he played a Canadian mountie. In Law of the Northwest, Steve King (Starrett) supervises a road-construction project designed to transport war materials to the Aleutians. Problems arise when a crooked contractor decides that his interests are more important than the war effort.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-26
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944-11-28
Meet Me in St. Louis
Overview: Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Thunder Over the Prairie
1941-07-29
Thunder Over the Prairie
Overview: An evil land baron uses the local Indians as laborers and then finds legal methods to cheat them of their pay. The reservation physician Steve Monroe does his best to thwart the villain by peaceable methods.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-29
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Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Westward Ho
1942-04-24
Westward Ho
Overview: The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Take Me Back to Oklahoma
1940-11-11
Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Overview: Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1940-11-11
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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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North West Mounted Police
1940-10-22
North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Bad Bascomb
1946-05-26
Bad Bascomb
Overview: A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Hands Across the Rockies
1941-06-19
Hands Across the Rockies
Overview: Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-19
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The Fuller Brush Man
1948-06-01
The Fuller Brush Man
Overview: Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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The Son of Monte Cristo
1940-12-05
The Son of Monte Cristo
Overview: Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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Son of Lassie
1945-04-20
Son of Lassie
Overview: Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
Genres: Action Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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Junior G-Men
1940-11-01
Junior G-Men
Overview: A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940-03-03
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Overview: A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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Today I Hang
1942-01-09
Today I Hang
Overview: Henry Courtney, a wealthy importer is found murdered and the famous DeNormand necklace has been stolen. The false testimony of two witnesses, Rand and Hobbs, puts Jim O'Brien in the shadow of the hangman's noose. Martha Courtney, widow of the murdered man and Jim's former sweetheart is convinced he isn't guilty, and promises crooked lawyer Roger Lanning the necklace - which Jim doesn't have - if he can arrange for Jim's escape. Rand and Lanning killed Courtney, but Lanning doesn't know that Rand has the necklace.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-09
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Salute to the Marines
1943-09-02
Salute to the Marines
Overview: It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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Hello, Annapolis
1942-04-23
Hello, Annapolis
Overview: Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Patrolling the Ether
1944-04-10
Patrolling the Ether
Overview: 1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it purely as a fun hobby. He is informed by Bill Beck of the Radio and Intelligence Division (RID) of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that amateur international radio communication is now banned due to spying a result of the war in Europe. Beck, on behalf of the RID, asks Phillip, however, to continue to monitor the airwaves for suspicious activity.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-10
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The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941-11-13
The Royal Mounted Patrol
Overview: Western star Charles Starrett makes one of his periodic forays into the Great White North in Columbia's Royal Mounted Patrol. When villainous lumberman Frenchy Duvalle refuses to limit his wood-chopping activities, he inadvertently touches off a forest fire. Trapped in the middle of the conflagration, Frenchy's only hope for rescue is mountie Tom Jeffries, presently scouring the countryside in his scout plane. Jeffries' reasons for bringing Frenchy out safely are twofold: he must deliver the renegade lumberjack to the authorities, and he happens to be in love with Frenchy's sister Betty.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-13
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A Tornado in the Saddle
1942-12-15
A Tornado in the Saddle
Overview: A Tornado in the Saddle starred Russell Hayden as the new sheriff of Crestview. Hot on the trail of a gang of claim jumpers led by Dalton and Slim, the novice lawman also has to deal with hotheaded wrangler turned deputy Bob Wilson, whom he is constantly forced to fight, but only after prudently removing his sheriff's star.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-15
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Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Swing Shift Maisie
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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In Old California
1942-05-31
In Old California
Overview: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
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This Man's Navy
1945-01-04
This Man's Navy
Overview: During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-04
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Thrill of a Romance
1945-05-23
Thrill of a Romance
Overview: A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-23
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Invisible Agent
1942-08-07
Invisible Agent
Overview: The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
Tear Gas Squad
Overview: A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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See Here, Private Hargrove
1944-03-18
See Here, Private Hargrove
Overview: Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-18
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Little White Lie
1945-03-03
Little White Lie
Overview: An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-03
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Return from Nowhere
1944-10-28
Return from Nowhere
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-28
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Bataan
1943-06-03
Bataan
Overview: During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-03
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Ditch and Live
1944-01-01
Ditch and Live
Overview: Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Inflation
1942-01-01
Inflation
Overview: The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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War Dogs
1942-11-13
War Dogs
Overview: A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
White Tie and Tails
Overview: When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Night Song
1948-01-20
Night Song
Overview: A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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7th Cavalry
1956-12-01
7th Cavalry
Overview: An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Swing Fever
1943-11-01
Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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