Ralph Forbes
Biography: Ralph Forbes (born Ralph Forbes Taylor, 30 September 1904 – 31 March 1951) was an English film and stage actor in the UK and the United States.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 29, 1904
Deathday: March 31, 1951
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Charley's Aunt
1926-03-22
Charley's Aunt
Overview: Two Oxford University students, Jack and Charles, find themselves in a predicament. They enlist a friend to impersonate Charley's aunt from Brazil as a solution to their problems, not realizing that it would further complicate the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-03-22
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Twentieth Century
1934-05-11
Twentieth Century
Overview: A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Tower of London
1939-11-17
Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Christopher Strong
1933-03-09
Christopher Strong
Overview: A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-09
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934-09-21
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Overview: Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939-11-11
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Overview: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-11
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The Actress
1928-04-27
The Actress
Overview: A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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Rescue Squad
1935-05-15
Rescue Squad
Overview: An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian importer raise money for a son's surgery by buying a sacred statuette of Buddha, the sale of which the importer believes will curse him; therefore, the importer secretly plans to poison the collector after receiving the cash and keep the statuette in his possession. The titled "rescue squad" appears only briefly in the picture to help firemen rescue two principal characters from a stuck elevator in a building set afire by accident. There are no arsonists in this film.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937-02-19
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Overview: A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Smilin' Through
1932-09-24
Smilin' Through
Overview: On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935-12-07
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Overview: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Daniel Boone
1936-10-16
Daniel Boone
Overview: In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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If I Were King
1938-09-28
If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Beau Ideal
1931-01-25
Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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The Trail of '98
1928-03-20
The Trail of '98
Overview: Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-20
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The Goose and the Gander
1935-09-21
The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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The Mystery of Mr. X
1934-02-23
The Mystery of Mr. X
Overview: A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-23
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Piccadilly Jim
1936-08-14
Piccadilly Jim
Overview: Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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The Magnificent Fraud
1939-07-19
The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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The Thirteenth Chair
1937-05-07
The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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Under the Black Eagle
1928-03-24
Under the Black Eagle
Overview: A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-24
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I'll Name the Murderer
1936-01-26
I'll Name the Murderer
Overview: Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-26
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Enchanted April
1935-02-01
Enchanted April
Overview: Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Beau Geste
1926-08-24
Beau Geste
Overview: Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-24
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Outcast Lady
1934-09-28
Outcast Lady
Overview: A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Age of Indiscretion
1935-05-10
Age of Indiscretion
Overview: A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-10
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Make a Wish
1937-09-01
Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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The Bachelor Father
1931-01-10
The Bachelor Father
Overview: Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-10
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The Lady of Scandal
1930-05-24
The Lady of Scandal
Overview: A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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Rich Relations
1937-02-01
Rich Relations
Overview: A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
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The Legion of Missing Men
1937-07-28
The Legion of Missing Men
Overview: Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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Women Are Like That
1938-04-23
Women Are Like That
Overview: Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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Convicts at Large
1938-12-14
Convicts at Large
Overview: An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939-03-24
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Lilies of the Field
1930-01-05
Lilies of the Field
Overview: Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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The Fountain
1934-08-22
The Fountain
Overview: Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-22
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The Masks of the Devil
1928-11-17
The Masks of the Devil
Overview: Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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Pleasure Cruise
1933-04-01
Pleasure Cruise
Overview: Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Inside the Lines
1930-07-05
Inside the Lines
Overview: During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-05
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The Green Goddess
1930-02-13
The Green Goddess
Overview: An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-13
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Annabel Takes a Tour
1938-11-10
Annabel Takes a Tour
Overview: Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan for her personal appearance tour. The trip proceeds with a flurry of Morgan's crazy, slapstick publicity stunts. Then Annabel has her chance to "bag" a real Viscount.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-10
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Her Wedding Night
1930-09-28
Her Wedding Night
Overview: Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visit a friend in Southern France, she finds herself "married" to a playboy song writer Ralph Forbes she hadn't yet met. Some of his lady friends then show up. Some very good sequences, but also some flat spots. Her "husband's" house is very Hollywood deco and some of the costumes are very good.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-28
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Thunder Below
1932-06-17
Thunder Below
Overview: Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-17
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Woman Against the World
1937-09-01
Woman Against the World
Overview: A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Love Letters of a Star
1936-11-08
Love Letters of a Star
Overview: A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-08
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The Circus: Premiere
1928-01-13
The Circus: Premiere
Overview: Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Mr. Wu
1927-03-26
Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Mamba
1930-03-09
Mamba
Overview: August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-09
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The Solitaire Man
1933-09-22
The Solitaire Man
Overview: An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Riptide
1934-03-29
Riptide
Overview: Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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Bombay Mail
1934-01-06
Bombay Mail
Overview: In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-06
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Mary of Scotland
1936-07-28
Mary of Scotland
Overview: The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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The Whip
1928-09-16
The Whip
Overview: Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Strange Wives
1934-11-30
Strange Wives
Overview: When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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The Glorious Adventure
1922-04-23
The Glorious Adventure
Overview: An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-23
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Restless Youth
1928-11-30
Restless Youth
Overview: Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney). Dixie uses an employment agency to unknowingly land a job with Neil's attorney son, Bruce. A romance develops between the two until they go to meet the old man, who promptly forces Dixie to break up with Bruce because of her 'sordid' past. Bruce will have none of it, so to get him to drop her she attempts to get 'caught' in an innocent date with her employment agency contact, Haines. Unfortunately, Haines has different ideas about their encounter and will not take "no" for an answer so Dixie is forced to clock him with an urn, killing him. Dixie's trial for murder leads to a courtroom confrontation between father and son, with her fate resting in the balance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-30
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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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Streamline Express
1935-09-15
Streamline Express
Overview: A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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Kidnapped
1938-05-27
Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Owd Bob
1924-01-01
Owd Bob
Overview: An old farmer's sheepdog is saved when a rival's dog is proved to be a sheep killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Shock
1934-07-19
Shock
Overview: Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-19
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The Enemy
1927-12-08
The Enemy
Overview: Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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The Three Musketeers
1935-11-01
The Three Musketeers
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
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Frenchman's Creek
1944-09-20
Frenchman's Creek
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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Curtain Call
1940-04-18
Curtain Call
Overview: Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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Comin' Thro the Rye
1923-11-01
Comin' Thro the Rye
Overview: A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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The Latest from Paris
1928-02-04
The Latest from Paris
Overview: The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Phantom Broadcast
1933-03-14
The Phantom Broadcast
Overview: A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-14
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The Avenger
1933-08-10
The Avenger
Overview: A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-10
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Romeo and Juliet
1936-09-03
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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Adventure in Diamonds
1940-03-08
Adventure in Diamonds
Overview: A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Stage Door
1937-10-08
Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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A Lowland Cinderella
1922-01-11
A Lowland Cinderella
Overview: A retelling of Cinderella in 1920s Britain.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-11
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Réveille
1924-06-01
Réveille
Overview: A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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