James Donlan
Biography: James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 23, 1888
Deathday: June 07, 1938
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Thirteen Women
1932-09-16
Thirteen Women
Overview: Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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The Whole Town's Talking
1935-02-22
The Whole Town's Talking
Overview: Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Belle of the Nineties
1934-09-21
Belle of the Nineties
Overview: Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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Penguin Pool Murder
1932-12-09
Penguin Pool Murder
Overview: New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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I Loved a Woman
1933-09-23
I Loved a Woman
Overview: The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
Exclusive Story
Overview: A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936-04-24
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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The Nuisance
1933-06-03
The Nuisance
Overview: Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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College Humor
1933-07-05
College Humor
Overview: A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Genres: Action Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-05
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932-04-25
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Overview: Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-25
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Big Dame Hunting
1932-01-15
Big Dame Hunting
Overview: A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates
Overview: Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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The Good Bad Girl
1931-05-20
The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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Sporting Blood
1931-08-08
Sporting Blood
Overview: A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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Danger Lights
1931-01-09
Danger Lights
Overview: Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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The Fall Guy
1930-06-15
The Fall Guy
Overview: Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Remote Control
1930-11-15
Remote Control
Overview: A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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We're Only Human
1935-12-27
We're Only Human
Overview: A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Dark Hazard
1934-01-31
Dark Hazard
Overview: Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-31
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Wise Girls
1929-09-21
Wise Girls
Overview: Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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Five Star Final
1931-09-26
Five Star Final
Overview: Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-26
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Men of Chance
1931-12-26
Men of Chance
Overview: A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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The Painted Desert
1931-01-18
The Painted Desert
Overview: Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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Copy
1929-10-11
Copy
Overview: On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-11
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Under Pressure
1935-02-02
Under Pressure
Overview: Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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The Plot Thickens
1936-12-11
The Plot Thickens
Overview: A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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The Bishop Murder Case
1929-12-31
The Bishop Murder Case
Overview: The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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The Sins of the Children
1930-06-27
The Sins of the Children
Overview: A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-27
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934-04-18
A Very Honorable Guy
Overview: Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Hi, Nellie!
1934-01-20
Hi, Nellie!
Overview: Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-20
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What! No Beer?
1933-02-10
What! No Beer?
Overview: When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Back Street
1932-08-04
Back Street
Overview: A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-04
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Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
Here Comes the Band
Overview: In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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Mothers Cry
1930-12-04
Mothers Cry
Overview: Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-04
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Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Babes in Arms
1939-10-10
Babes in Arms
Overview: Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-10
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Traveling Saleslady
1935-03-28
Traveling Saleslady
Overview: A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-28
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Daybreak
1931-05-02
Daybreak
Overview: An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-02
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Now I'll Tell
1934-06-07
Now I'll Tell
Overview: A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932-12-24
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Overview: Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Design for Living
1933-12-29
Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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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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Huddle
1932-05-14
Huddle
Overview: Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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Paris Interlude
1934-07-27
Paris Interlude
Overview: Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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Life Begins at Forty
1935-03-22
Life Begins at Forty
Overview: A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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The Case of the Curious Bride
1935-04-13
The Case of the Curious Bride
Overview: After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-13
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Pilgrimage
1933-07-12
Pilgrimage
Overview: A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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Music for Madame
1937-10-08
Music for Madame
Overview: An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Doctor Bull
1933-09-22
Doctor Bull
Overview: In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Beau Bandit
1930-03-02
Beau Bandit
Overview: Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
Genres: Action Adventure Western Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-02
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The Final Edition
1932-02-12
The Final Edition
Overview: A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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The Death Kiss
1932-12-05
The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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A Free Soul
1931-06-02
A Free Soul
Overview: An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-02
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Borrowing Trouble
1937-12-10
Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Hot Tip
1935-08-20
Hot Tip
Overview: An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-20
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Crash Donovan
1936-08-01
Crash Donovan
Overview: A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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The Working Man
1933-04-20
The Working Man
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933-02-18
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Overview: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Big News
1929-09-06
Big News
Overview: A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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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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Night Work
1930-08-03
Night Work
Overview: Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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Dance, Fools, Dance
1931-02-07
Dance, Fools, Dance
Overview: When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Murder on a Bridle Path
1936-04-17
Murder on a Bridle Path
Overview: When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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