Brian Donlevy
Biography: Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Ulster-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His obituary in The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom stated that "any consideration of the American 'film noir' of the 1940s would be incomplete without him". Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Donlevy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: February 09, 1901
Deathday: April 06, 1972
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Never So Few
1959-12-07
Never So Few
Overview: A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-07
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Kiss of Death
1947-08-27
Kiss of Death
Overview: An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-27
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Command Decision
1948-12-23
Command Decision
Overview: High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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The Big Combo
1955-02-13
The Big Combo
Overview: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-13
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1955-08-26
The Quatermass Xperiment
Overview: The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Impact
1949-03-20
Impact
Overview: After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982-05-21
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Overview: Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Quatermass 2
1957-05-24
Quatermass 2
Overview: In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Hoodlum Empire
1952-04-15
Hoodlum Empire
Overview: It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
1965-07-14
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Overview: When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Gammera the Invincible
1966-12-15
Gammera the Invincible
Overview: An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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The Errand Boy
1961-11-28
The Errand Boy
Overview: Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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A Cry in the Night
1956-08-17
A Cry in the Night
Overview: A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Beau Geste
1939-07-24
Beau Geste
Overview: When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-24
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944-09-18
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Overview: A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
Canyon Passage
Overview: In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-17
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Wake Island
1942-08-11
Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Allegheny Uprising
1939-11-10
Allegheny Uprising
Overview: South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
Genres: Western Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Jesse James
1939-01-14
Jesse James
Overview: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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Destry Rides Again
1939-11-30
Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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36 Hours to Kill
1936-07-24
36 Hours to Kill
Overview: Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Curse of the Fly
1965-05-01
Curse of the Fly
Overview: The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The Glass Key
1942-09-08
The Glass Key
Overview: A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-08
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Cowboy
1958-01-23
Cowboy
Overview: Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Shakedown
1950-09-01
Shakedown
Overview: Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Brigham Young
1940-09-27
Brigham Young
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Pit Stop
1969-05-14
Pit Stop
Overview: Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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The Beginning or the End
1947-02-19
The Beginning or the End
Overview: The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
Genres: Drama Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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Barbary Coast
1935-10-13
Barbary Coast
Overview: Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
Genres: Romance Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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Five Golden Dragons
1967-08-03
Five Golden Dragons
Overview: While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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Stalingrad
1943-05-14
Stalingrad
Overview: Soviet documentary film.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Killer McCoy
1947-12-01
Killer McCoy
Overview: Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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Birth of the Blues
1941-11-07
Birth of the Blues
Overview: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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In Old Chicago
1936-01-09
In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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The Remarkable Andrew
1942-03-05
The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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A Gentleman After Dark
1942-04-16
A Gentleman After Dark
Overview: A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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The Great Man's Lady
1941-10-31
The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Kansas Raiders
1950-11-15
Kansas Raiders
Overview: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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Waco
1966-09-01
Waco
Overview: Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-01
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Heaven Only Knows
1947-09-12
Heaven Only Knows
Overview: Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Stand by for Action
1942-12-31
Stand by for Action
Overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Genres: Action Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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The Virginian
1946-05-05
The Virginian
Overview: Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-05
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1935-11-15
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Overview: A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Slaughter Trail
1951-10-15
Slaughter Trail
Overview: Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the war path and they have to take refuge in an Army fort to avoid them. The Indians then arrive offering peace if the three men are turned over to them. The fort's commanding Officer wants peace but the rules say the men must be tried in a white man's court leaving the Indians no choice but to attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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Billy the Kid
1941-05-30
Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Strike Me Pink
1936-01-24
Strike Me Pink
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Battle of Broadway
1938-04-22
Battle of Broadway
Overview: The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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I Wanted Wings
1941-03-26
I Wanted Wings
Overview: Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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When the Daltons Rode
1940-08-23
When the Daltons Rode
Overview: Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
This Is My Affair
Overview: President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-28
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The Lucky Stiff
1949-05-26
The Lucky Stiff
Overview: A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Woman They Almost Lynched
1953-03-20
Woman They Almost Lynched
Overview: Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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An American Romance
1944-04-16
An American Romance
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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Rogue's Gallery
1968-01-01
Rogue's Gallery
Overview: A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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High Tension
1936-07-10
High Tension
Overview: Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Arizona Bushwhackers
1968-03-01
Arizona Bushwhackers
Overview: During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
1962-06-19
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Overview: An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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Behind Prison Gates
1939-07-28
Behind Prison Gates
Overview: An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Hostile Guns
1967-07-01
Hostile Guns
Overview: US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon, McCool's former flame. When McCool cannot be swayed from completing his lawful duty, Laura tries to endear herself to shotgun rider Mike Reno in hopes he will set her free.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Juke Box Rhythm
1959-08-01
Juke Box Rhythm
Overview: An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Damaged Hearts
1924-02-21
Damaged Hearts
Overview: Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-21
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A Southern Yankee
1948-08-05
A Southern Yankee
Overview: Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-05
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Another Face
1935-12-20
Another Face
Overview: The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Born Reckless
1937-06-25
Born Reckless
Overview: Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Crack-Up
1936-12-14
Crack-Up
Overview: Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-14
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13 Hours by Air
1936-04-30
13 Hours by Air
Overview: Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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The Fat Spy
1966-05-11
The Fat Spy
Overview: A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young people, who head there in a crowded powerboat ostensibly for a scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Two Years Before the Mast
1946-11-22
Two Years Before the Mast
Overview: In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-22
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Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Song of Scheherazade
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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A Man of Quality
1926-10-01
A Man of Quality
Overview: Jack Banning is a motorcycle cop by day and undercover agent by night. Disguising himself as "Strongarm Samson," Banning infiltrates a gang of smugglers headed by Richard Courtney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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Human Cargo
1936-05-15
Human Cargo
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Fighting Coast Guard
1951-05-31
Fighting Coast Guard
Overview: Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Half Angel
1936-05-22
Half Angel
Overview: Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Midnight Taxi
1937-04-04
Midnight Taxi
Overview: A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-04
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Monsieur Beaucaire
1924-08-11
Monsieur Beaucaire
Overview: The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-11
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Escape from Red Rock
1957-12-01
Escape from Red Rock
Overview: Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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The Trouble with Women
1947-06-25
The Trouble with Women
Overview: A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Ride the Man Down
1952-11-25
Ride the Man Down
Overview: After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-25
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997-05-12
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Overview: Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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Jamestown
1923-11-04
Jamestown
Overview: The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Two Americans
1929-06-22
Two Americans
Overview: Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln asserts his leadership and appoints Gen. Grant.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-22
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School for Wives
1925-04-05
School for Wives
Overview: School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946-06-14
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Overview: Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-14
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We're Going to Be Rich
1938-07-03
We're Going to Be Rich
Overview: A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-03
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Duffy's Tavern
1945-09-28
Duffy's Tavern
Overview: The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Girl In Room 13
1960-01-01
Girl In Room 13
Overview: A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Sharpshooters
1938-11-18
Sharpshooters
Overview: Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942-03-26
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Overview: The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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A Modern Cinderella
1932-11-05
A Modern Cinderella
Overview: Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the design at first, but agrees to let Anita model it for her to decide whether to keep it. Charlie, a drunk partygoer, sees Anita in the dress and invites her to attend the festivities. She reluctantly agrees and sings for the other guests.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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South of Tahiti
1941-10-17
South of Tahiti
Overview: Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Gentlemen of the Press
1929-05-04
Gentlemen of the Press
Overview: A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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Ireno
1932-06-30
Ireno
Overview: Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-30
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Mother's Boy
1929-07-01
Mother's Boy
Overview: Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-01
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Twenty Years After
1944-01-01
Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Nightmare
1942-11-10
Nightmare
Overview: An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987-06-26
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Overview: A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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