Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles. Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen" – though some sources give Oleson, later Oleson Kvalen as Qualen's earlier surnames. His father's ministering meant many moves and John was 20 when he graduated from Elgin High School in 1920. Though he was awarded a scholarship to Northwestern University after he won an oratory contest he never attended college. In a Milwaukee Journal interview he said he needed to start working and did so with the Chattaqua Circuit. Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. His movie career began when he recreated the role in the film version. This was followed by his appearance in John Ford's Arrowsmith (1931) which began a more than thirty year membership in the director's "stock company", with important supporting roles in The Searchers (1956), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Appearing in well over one hundred films, and acting extensively on television into the 1970s, Qualen performed many of his roles with various accents, usually Scandinavian, often intended for comic effect. Three of his more memorable roles showcase his versatility. Qualen assumed a Midwestern dialect as Muley, who recounts the destruction of his farm by the bank in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and as the confused killer Earl Williams in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (also 1940). As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954) Qualen was treasurer of The Authors Club and historian of The Masquers, Hollywood's social group for actors. John Qualen was blind in his later years. He died of heart failure in 1987 in Torrance, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was survived by his three daughters.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 06, 1899
Deathday: September 12, 1987
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1943-01-15
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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1940-03-15
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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1940-01-18
Overview: Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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1956-05-16
Overview: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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1940-11-22
Overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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1948-02-07
Overview: 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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1940-02-29
Overview: Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-29
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1960-11-07
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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1942-04-03
Overview: Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human village and reconnects with its inhabitants, including his widowed mother. Continuing to maintain a relationship with the jungle, adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-03
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1962-04-13
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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1948-08-18
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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1941-06-14
Overview: A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-14
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1965-12-10
Overview: A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-10
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1935-01-21
Overview: Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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1938-12-15
Overview: In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-15
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1950-11-10
Overview: Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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1964-03-18
Overview: An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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1944-11-21
Overview: Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-21
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1941-10-17
Overview: Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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1940-10-02
Overview: Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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1965-01-28
Overview: Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-28
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1942-12-25
Overview: Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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1966-06-08
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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1941-07-18
Overview: Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-18
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1947-11-11
Overview: Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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1953-08-14
Overview: After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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1940-10-05
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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1964-10-15
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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1945-12-28
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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1965-06-23
Overview: The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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1952-12-19
Overview: A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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1954-07-03
Overview: Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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1942-04-24
Overview: Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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1949-07-01
Overview: Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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1958-12-21
Overview: A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-21
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1940-11-16
Overview: The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-16
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1954-12-02
Overview: Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she gives him a drugged drink. She tells Darman they had been intimate and blackmails him for $50,000. More than a little distracted by his situation, his wife senses something is wrong and he gets into a violent argument with his father-in-law who owns the producing company Darman works for, and discontinues the picture. Sherry informs Darman she is going to tell his wife all about them. Darman tells his secretary that he is going to work late and is not to be disturbed, sets the moviola runnings, and exits by the back door and hot-foots it to Sherry's apartment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-02
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1958-08-01
Overview: Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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1950-11-01
Overview: Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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1944-02-10
Overview: The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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1958-08-20
Overview: A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-20
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1935-05-18
Overview: A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-18
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1937-06-07
Overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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1941-05-31
Overview: A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-31
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1943-10-01
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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1942-05-21
Overview: Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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1939-09-15
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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1968-01-24
Overview: A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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1939-09-29
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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1935-02-15
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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1954-10-06
Overview: In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters. Overjoyed, he plans to formalize his "unofficial" marriage. But trouble brews; Melo's land is of unclear title and the new Don Domingo hopes to grab it for his own profit. Violence results. Without even knowing who survived, Juan (accompanied by Rosa's tomboy sister Tonya) rides for revenge, through spectacular pastoral and wilderness scenery.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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1934-10-02
Overview: John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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1968-03-27
Overview: Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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1951-05-19
Overview: Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-19
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1939-01-06
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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1945-01-31
Overview: In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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1944-04-16
Overview: A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-16
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1935-08-09
Overview: An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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1936-08-08
Overview: When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-08
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1931-12-07
Overview: A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-07
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1936-07-16
Overview: Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-16
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1934-06-16
Overview: A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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1937-03-25
Overview: A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-25
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1935-07-05
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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1934-04-20
Overview: While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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1938-10-14
Overview: Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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1945-11-22
Overview: Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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1969-10-04
Overview: Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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1950-12-24
Overview: A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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1937-09-01
Overview: Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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1933-12-26
Overview: A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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1935-05-03
Overview: An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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1940-05-09
Overview: In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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1938-10-21
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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1933-12-25
Overview: A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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1947-02-26
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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1934-04-28
Overview: A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-28
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1934-12-11
Overview: Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie starring pretty student Alice Perkins. But Jimmie hopes to bilk the bilkers by actually completing the movie as ostensibly planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-11
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1957-03-01
Overview: Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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1936-03-12
Overview: A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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1937-12-31
Overview: A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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1955-05-01
Overview: Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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1948-02-03
Overview: Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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1936-11-20
Overview: Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-20
Popularity:
1931-09-05
Overview: The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-05
Popularity:
1950-02-02
Overview: The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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1933-12-26
Overview: A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
Popularity:
1934-01-20
Overview: Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-20
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1961-05-24
Overview: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
Popularity:
1955-06-04
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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1939-12-22
Overview: In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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1939-03-29
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
Popularity:
1936-09-04
Overview: The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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1956-07-01
Overview: In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
Popularity:
1935-12-21
Overview: A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-21
Popularity:
1940-05-17
Overview: The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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1963-06-12
Overview: After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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1935-09-16
Overview: Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a message from a blackmailer, threatening her husband. When the blackmailer winds up dead, Madalaine appears to be the most likely suspect. Torok, however, knows the case is more complicated than it seems and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-16
Popularity:
1959-07-01
Overview: Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
Popularity:
1948-02-01
Overview: Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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1940-06-14
Overview: A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
Popularity:
1955-08-25
Overview: This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-25
Popularity:
1953-05-01
Overview: Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
Popularity:
1936-02-15
Overview: Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't love. Turmoil ensues for Ross as he tries to make his marriage work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
Popularity:
1936-02-28
Overview: Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
Popularity:
1948-07-25
Overview: A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-25
Popularity:
1935-11-01
Overview: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
Popularity:
1940-05-04
Overview: An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
Popularity:
1937-11-25
Overview: When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
Popularity:
1960-02-01
Overview: When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
Popularity:
1935-07-10
Overview: A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-10
Popularity:
1935-12-18
Overview: Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-18
Popularity:
1951-01-27
Overview: Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-27
Popularity:
1965-06-18
Overview: Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-18
Popularity:
1934-08-10
Overview: Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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1941-04-17
Overview: Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
Popularity:
1963-12-25
Overview: A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
Popularity:
1950-03-01
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
Popularity:
1941-09-10
Overview: The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-10
Popularity:
1960-07-07
Overview: A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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1937-06-03
Overview: A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-03
Popularity:
1938-07-29
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
Popularity:
1937-07-02
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
Popularity:
1935-07-19
Overview: Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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1945-09-21
Overview: An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-21
Popularity:
1938-05-06
Overview: Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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1947-06-21
Overview: Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-21
Popularity:
1935-02-27
Overview: Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-27
Popularity:
1993-12-31
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
Popularity:
1955-12-25
Overview: A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
Popularity:
1939-07-03
Overview: A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
Popularity:
1934-09-25
Overview: Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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1942-12-31
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
Popularity:
1969-07-28
Overview: An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't resist butting in with comic results.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-28
Popularity:
1972-01-18
Overview: Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-18
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