Horace McMahon
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horace McMahon (May 17, 1906 – August 17, 1971) was an American actor. McMahon was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut. He became interested in acting when he was a student at Fordham University School of Law. In his early career he mostly played thugs or jailbirds, but in 1949 he starred in his most acclaimed role, as Lieutenant Monaghan in the drama play Detective Story and in 1951 he reprised his character in Paramount Pictures' film version Detective Story, alongside Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. McMahon also starred on television, in the ABC police series Naked City as Lt. Mike Parker, a gruff, no-nonsense, but warmhearted cop's cop, interested only in justice and doing the job according to the proper rules of the game. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for this role. In 1964, McMahon played Hank McClure, a police contact in the 13-week CBS drama series, Mr. Broadway, with Craig Stevens. He also did voice-overs for commercials, including those for Close-Up toothpaste and Armstrong tires. In 1972, a 375-seat theater named in honor of McMahon was created in the McCrory Building on Washington Street in South Norwalk, Connecticut. McMahon was married to actress Louise Campbell from 1938 until his death in 1971, when he died from a heart ailment. Their daughter, Martha McMahon, also became an actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 17, 1906
Deathday: August 17, 1971
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Detective Story
1951-10-24
Detective Story
Overview: Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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Secrets of a Nurse
1938-12-02
Secrets of a Nurse
Overview: This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Come Live with Me
1941-01-31
Come Live with Me
Overview: Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Blackboard Jungle
1955-03-25
Blackboard Jungle
Overview: Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953-04-06
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Overview: Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-06
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The Detective
1968-05-28
The Detective
Overview: Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-28
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The Delicate Delinquent
1957-06-06
The Delicate Delinquent
Overview: Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-06
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Man in the Dark
1953-04-09
Man in the Dark
Overview: Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Susan Slept Here
1954-07-28
Susan Slept Here
Overview: On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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The Crowd Roars
1938-08-06
The Crowd Roars
Overview: A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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Birth of the Blues
1941-11-07
Birth of the Blues
Overview: Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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The Swinger
1966-11-13
The Swinger
Overview: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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My Sister Eileen
1955-09-22
My Sister Eileen
Overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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Lady Scarface
1941-09-26
Lady Scarface
Overview: A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Waterfront at Midnight
1948-06-25
Waterfront at Midnight
Overview: Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-25
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Tenth Avenue Kid
1938-08-22
Tenth Avenue Kid
Overview: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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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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Jail House Blues
1942-02-01
Jail House Blues
Overview: A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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Texas Lady
1955-11-23
Texas Lady
Overview: Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Duffy of San Quentin
1954-03-16
Duffy of San Quentin
Overview: San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Sergeant Madden
1939-03-24
Sergeant Madden
Overview: A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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The Wrong Road
1937-10-11
The Wrong Road
Overview: A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-11
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Never Steal Anything Small
1959-02-11
Never Steal Anything Small
Overview: Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Navy Blues
1937-03-29
Navy Blues
Overview: A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he pursues her, he discovers that she is quite beautiful and that he has competition -- but his rival has more sinister intentions than anyone imagines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-29
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Exclusive
1937-08-06
Exclusive
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Federal Man-Hunt
1938-12-27
Federal Man-Hunt
Overview: By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-27
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Fast Company
1938-07-05
Fast Company
Overview: Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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King of the Newsboys
1938-03-18
King of the Newsboys
Overview: A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Newsboys' Home
1938-12-24
Newsboys' Home
Overview: A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Wanted by the Police
1938-09-21
Wanted by the Police
Overview: A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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The Marines Fly High
1940-03-04
The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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They Gave Him a Gun
1937-05-07
They Gave Him a Gun
Overview: With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Genres: War Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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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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Pirates of the Skies
1939-01-01
Pirates of the Skies
Overview: Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
Calling Dr. Kildare
Overview: Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Another Thin Man
1939-11-17
Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939-06-02
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
Bachelor Mother
Overview: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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That's Right – You're Wrong
1939-11-24
That's Right – You're Wrong
Overview: J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Overview: In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-01
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Gangs of Chicago
1940-05-18
Gangs of Chicago
Overview: A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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She Married a Cop
1939-07-11
She Married a Cop
Overview: This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-11
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When G-Men Step In
1938-03-16
When G-Men Step In
Overview: Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-16
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Stage Door Canteen
1943-06-24
Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Ladies in Distress
1938-06-13
Ladies in Distress
Overview: Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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I Was a Convict
1939-03-06
I Was a Convict
Overview: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Pride of the Navy
1939-01-23
Pride of the Navy
Overview: A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-23
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The Stork Pays Off
1941-10-05
The Stork Pays Off
Overview: Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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Rookies on Parade
1941-04-16
Rookies on Parade
Overview: The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-16
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The Leather Pushers
1940-09-13
The Leather Pushers
Overview: A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Buy Me That Town
1941-10-03
Buy Me That Town
Overview: A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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We Who Are Young
1940-07-19
We Who Are Young
Overview: A man violates company policy by getting married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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The Officer's Mess
1935-11-09
The Officer's Mess
Overview: Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Timber Queen
1944-01-13
Timber Queen
Overview: Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-13
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A Girl with Ideas
1937-11-01
A Girl with Ideas
Overview: A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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My Favorite Wife
1940-05-17
My Favorite Wife
Overview: Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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The Golden Fleecing
1940-08-16
The Golden Fleecing
Overview: A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Overview: A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940-04-12
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Overview: Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23
Dangerous Blondes
Overview: Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-23
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Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12
Millionaires in Prison
Overview: A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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Melody Ranch
1940-09-15
Melody Ranch
Overview: His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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Laugh It Off
1939-12-01
Laugh It Off
Overview: Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Broadway Musketeers
1938-10-08
Broadway Musketeers
Overview: Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-08
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943-06-29
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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Sabotage
1939-10-13
Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Big Town Czar
1939-05-03
Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Run To Daylight
1964-01-01
Run To Daylight
Overview: A documentary based on the book by legendary Packer coach Vince Lombardi. Narrated by Horace McMahon and told by Vince Lombardi, the 55-minute B & W film is a behind-the-scenes look at the Green Bay Packers from the beginning thru the end of training camp for the 1964 NFL season.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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What Makes Sammy Run?
1959-09-27
What Makes Sammy Run?
Overview: An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Champ for a Day
1953-08-15
Champ for a Day
Overview: An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-15
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
1940-01-01
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Overview: In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Beau James
1957-06-07
Beau James
Overview: The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-07
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
1948-02-07
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Overview: Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Fast Company
1953-05-21
Fast Company
Overview: The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940-03-08
The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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