John Harron
Biography: John Harron (March 31, 1904 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1918 and 1940. Born in New York City, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron. Harron graduated from Santa Clara University. His film debut came in Through the Back Door (1921). After acting for Universal, he was under contract to Warner Bros. Harron "achieved great success on the silent screen but was reduced to minor roles or minor films with the coming of sound." Harron died in Seattle, Washington from spinal meningitis. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1903
Deathday: November 24, 1939
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Finders Keepers
1928-02-18
Finders Keepers
Overview: Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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Pop's Pal
1933-12-21
Pop's Pal
Overview: A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-21
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White Zombie
1932-07-28
White Zombie
Overview: In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-28
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The Grim Comedian
1921-11-13
The Grim Comedian
Overview: Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a convent far, far away from her fast lifestyle. But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother, Marie decides to reform. She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover, Harvey Martin (Jack Holt), to concentrate on her daughter and her career, in that order. But Martin has fallen for Dorothy, and Dorothy cares for him too, even though she is already promised to a young artist, Geoffrey Hutchins (John Harron).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Overview: A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-20
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The Fox
1921-07-24
The Fox
Overview: Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-24
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939-06-17
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Overview: When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-17
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Through The Back Door
1921-05-05
Through The Back Door
Overview: A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-05
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Street Girl
1929-08-21
Street Girl
Overview: A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-21
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The Crowd Roars
1932-04-16
The Crowd Roars
Overview: Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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Quiet, Please
1939-07-01
Quiet, Please
Overview: A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-01
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Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Midnight Warning
1932-11-15
Midnight Warning
Overview: Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-15
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The Murder in the Museum
1934-05-26
The Murder in the Museum
Overview: When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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Bride of the Storm
1926-02-20
Bride of the Storm
Overview: An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives only long enough to inform the three Dutch lighthouse keepers that her daughter is the heiress to a large fortune. Years pass and Faith grows to womanhood. Jacob Kroon and his son, Piet, then conspire to marry Faith to Piet's idiot son, Hans, in order to bring her fortune into the family. Dick Wayne, a sailor on an American cruiser that is repairing a damaged cable in the waters of the lighthouse, learns of Faith's captivity and comes to her rescue. Piet kills Jacob in a fit of jealousy, and Dick then kills Piet in a fight. Hans sets the lighthouse on fire and incinerates himself. Dick and Faith make it back to the cruiser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-20
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The Little Irish Girl
1926-03-06
The Little Irish Girl
Overview: Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-06
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City Park
1934-05-01
City Park
Overview: The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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Sister to Judas
1932-12-25
Sister to Judas
Overview: A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Indianapolis Speedway
1939-08-05
Indianapolis Speedway
Overview: A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-05
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Big Boy
1930-04-27
Big Boy
Overview: Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-27
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Beauty Parlor
1932-06-15
Beauty Parlor
Overview: Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-15
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Stolen Sweets
1934-03-15
Stolen Sweets
Overview: Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-15
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The Czar of Broadway
1930-05-25
The Czar of Broadway
Overview: Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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Below the Line
1925-09-20
Below the Line
Overview: Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The Night Cry
1926-02-27
The Night Cry
Overview: A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-27
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The Boy Friend
1926-01-01
The Boy Friend
Overview: A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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The Patient in Room 18
1938-01-08
The Patient in Room 18
Overview: Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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The Fire Patrol
1924-08-14
The Fire Patrol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-14
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Out Where the Stars Begin
1938-05-28
Out Where the Stars Begin
Overview: When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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The Invisible Menace
1938-01-11
The Invisible Menace
Overview: Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-11
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Racket Busters
1938-07-16
Racket Busters
Overview: A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Boy Meets Girl
1938-08-27
Boy Meets Girl
Overview: Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-27
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Going Places
1938-12-31
Going Places
Overview: A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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Code of the Secret Service
1939-05-27
Code of the Secret Service
Overview: Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26
Angels Wash Their Faces
Overview: A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-26
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938-07-09
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Overview: A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-09
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Gold Diggers in Paris
1938-06-11
Gold Diggers in Paris
Overview: When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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My Bill
1938-07-08
My Bill
Overview: An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Secret Service of the Air
1939-03-04
Secret Service of the Air
Overview: Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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Public Wedding
1937-07-09
Public Wedding
Overview: The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Smashing the Money Ring
1939-10-21
Smashing the Money Ring
Overview: T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-21
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That Man's Here Again
1937-04-16
That Man's Here Again
Overview: An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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He Couldn't Say No
1938-03-19
He Couldn't Say No
Overview: A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
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King of the Underworld
1939-01-14
King of the Underworld
Overview: Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21
They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
Blackwell's Island
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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The Oklahoma Kid
1939-03-11
The Oklahoma Kid
Overview: McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Women in the Wind
1939-04-15
Women in the Wind
Overview: A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-15
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Dark Victory
1939-04-20
Dark Victory
Overview: Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Each Dawn I Die
1939-08-19
Each Dawn I Die
Overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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The Daredevil Drivers
1938-02-12
The Daredevil Drivers
Overview: To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
Kid Nightingale
Overview: A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-04
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The Return of Doctor X
1939-11-23
The Return of Doctor X
Overview: When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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Lincoln in the White House
1939-02-11
Lincoln in the White House
Overview: This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Heart of the North
1938-12-10
Heart of the North
Overview: A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-10
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Missing Witnesses
1937-12-11
Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Blazing Sixes
1937-06-12
Blazing Sixes
Overview: Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-12
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Varsity Show
1937-09-04
Varsity Show
Overview: Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-04
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The Fighting 69th
1940-01-27
The Fighting 69th
Overview: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Calling Philo Vance
Overview: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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The Law of the Tong
1931-12-15
The Law of the Tong
Overview: A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Beloved Brat
1938-04-30
The Beloved Brat
Overview: Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939-02-02
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939-05-13
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Overview: Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-13
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
Overview: Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
Brother Rat and a Baby
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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Talent Scout
1937-07-24
Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Virginia City
1940-03-23
Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Prairie Thunder
1937-09-10
Prairie Thunder
Overview: To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Jezebel
1938-03-26
Jezebel
Overview: In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Carnival Day
1936-01-11
Carnival Day
Overview: It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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Her Husband's Secretary
1937-02-26
Her Husband's Secretary
Overview: A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Over the Wall
1938-04-02
Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939-02-25
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Overview: Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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Learning to Love
1925-01-25
Learning to Love
Overview: A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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The Cowboy Quarterback
1939-07-29
The Cowboy Quarterback
Overview: Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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Hollywood Trouble
1935-01-01
Hollywood Trouble
Overview: An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Men in Exile
1937-04-04
Men in Exile
Overview: An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-04
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The Gold Diggers
1923-09-22
The Gold Diggers
Overview: Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-22
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Penrod
1922-02-20
Penrod
Overview: Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-20
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Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
Tear Gas Squad
Overview: A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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The Bill of Rights
1939-08-19
The Bill of Rights
Overview: This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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Hearts of the World
1918-03-11
Hearts of the World
Overview: A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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Once and Forever
1927-10-15
Once and Forever
Overview: Silent romantic drama starring Patsy Ruth Miller who suffers along with her beloved after he loses his sight during WWI.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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A Fugitive from Justice
1940-06-15
A Fugitive from Justice
Overview: Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
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The Easiest Way
1931-02-07
The Easiest Way
Overview: Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Will to wait for Jack's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning to Will who, upon learning of Jack's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Jack of her living situation or he will.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Penrod's Double Trouble
1938-07-23
Penrod's Double Trouble
Overview: When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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On Dress Parade
1939-11-18
On Dress Parade
Overview: The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-18
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The Adventurous Blonde
1937-11-13
The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Torchy Blane in Panama
1938-05-07
Torchy Blane in Panama
Overview: Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Torchy Gets Her Man
1938-11-12
Torchy Gets Her Man
Overview: A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-12
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The Declaration of Independence
1938-11-26
The Declaration of Independence
Overview: This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-26
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The Man Without a Country
1937-11-27
The Man Without a Country
Overview: This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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Slapsie Maxie's
1939-09-16
Slapsie Maxie's
Overview: In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Old Shoes
1925-04-08
Old Shoes
Overview: A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-08
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The Gilded Highway
1926-03-13
The Gilded Highway
Overview: After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-13
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The Woman Hater
1925-07-12
The Woman Hater
Overview: A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually ants her for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-12
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Hard to Get
1938-11-05
Hard to Get
Overview: When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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Boots and Saddles
1937-10-04
Boots and Saddles
Overview: Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-04
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Marked Woman
1937-04-10
Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Overview: A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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Laugh and Get Rich
1931-03-27
Laugh and Get Rich
Overview: An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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The West~Bound Limited
1923-04-14
The West~Bound Limited
Overview: The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-14
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My Wife and I
1925-05-16
My Wife and I
Overview: In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-16
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Hell-Bent for Heaven
1926-05-01
Hell-Bent for Heaven
Overview: Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude's brother, and a family-feud is started when Andy goes gunning after Sid. But Sid quiets the drunken Andy, and is taking him home when a shot is fired from ambush and Sid's horse comes home riderless. But he shows up unhurt, and the jealous-maddened Rufe sends him on a ruse to the big dam. Rufe sets off a dynamite explosion to catch Sid in the swirling waters but Jude is the one who is caught.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Satan in Sables
1925-10-14
Satan in Sables
Overview: A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-14
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Fly Away Baby
1937-06-19
Fly Away Baby
Overview: Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-19
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Behind the Curtain
1924-07-15
Behind the Curtain
Overview: When a brutal murder occurs, all the evidence points to a phony spiritualist, who is eventually convicted of the crime--but he may not have done it. This film is lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-15
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Hollywood Halfbacks
1931-12-23
Hollywood Halfbacks
Overview: Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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