Eddie Quillan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward "Eddie" Quillan (March 31, 1907 – July 19, 1990) was an American film actor whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Quillan's very first film appearance was in the 1922 comedy short Up and at 'Em. His next performance was in the 1926 comedy short The Love Sundae opposite actress Alice Day. Quillan would remain a popular leading and secondary actor throughout the sound film era and would appear in such notable films as 1935's Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone, 1939's Young Mr. Lincoln opposite Henry Fonda and Alice Brady, as 'Connie Rivers' in John Ford's 1940 film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath opposite Henry Fonda, in 1943's Alaska Highway and It Ain't Hay opposite the comedic duo Abbott and Costello. Quillan's breezy screen personality was seen in "B" musicals, comedies, and even serials during the 1940s. In 1948 Columbia Pictures producer Jules White teamed Quillan with veteran movie comic Wally Vernon for a series of comedy short subjects. White emphasized extreme physical comedy in these films, and Vernon and Quillan made a good team, enthusiastically engaging in pratfalling, kick-in-the-pants slapstick. The series ran through 1956. Beginning in the late 1950s, Quillan began to make the transition to the medium of television and by the 1960s could be seen frequently appearing as a guest actor in such series as The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, Perry Mason, and approximately five appearances on the camp-horror comedy series The Addams Family. He was a regular on the Anthony Franciosa sitcom Valentine's Day from 1964 to 1965, and from 1968 through 1971 he appeared as "Eddie Edson" on the television drama Julia opposite actress Diahann Carroll. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Quillan continued to appear in motion pictures, but in increasingly smaller roles and often in bit parts. One notable appearance of the era was his role of 'Sandy' in the 1954 Vincente Minnelli directed musical Brigadoon. Quillan also appeared in the uncredited role of 'Mr.Cassidy' in the 1969 Gene Kelly film adaptation of Hello, Dolly!. Quillan appeared in My Three Sons as Mr Hewlett (1961) and also appeared on the western television adventure series The Rifleman as Angus Evans. In the 1970s, Quillan made guest appearances on such varied television series as Mannix, Here's Lucy, Chico and the Man and Baretta. After meeting and befriending actor and director Michael Landon, he played numerous bit roles in the popular television series Little House on the Prairie. Quillan also performed in the Landon-directed series Highway to Heaven and Father Murphy during the 1980s. Quillan made his last television appearance in a 1987 episode of the television crime-mystery series Matlock.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1907
Deathday: July 19, 1990
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Come on Seven
1956-02-23
Come on Seven
Overview: Wally and Eddie are on their way to Reno to win enough money to pay for a little boy's operation. On the way, their car is stolen by two girls and they are beaten up by the girl's boyfriends. They win a lot of money in Reno, but have to fight their way through a free-for-all with two amazons in order to keep it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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Viva Las Vegas
1964-02-08
Viva Las Vegas
Overview: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Come Blow Your Horn
1963-06-05
Come Blow Your Horn
Overview: The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-05
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The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
The Flame of New Orleans
Overview: In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-07
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Allegheny Uprising
1939-11-10
Allegheny Uprising
Overview: South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
Genres: Western Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939-06-09
Young Mr. Lincoln
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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The Mandarin Mystery
1936-12-23
The Mandarin Mystery
Overview: Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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Kid Glove Killer
1942-04-17
Kid Glove Killer
Overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1931-06-15
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Overview: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-15
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Made for Each Other
1939-02-10
Made for Each Other
Overview: A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972-12-02
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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Big City
1937-09-03
Big City
Overview: Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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The Impostor
1944-02-10
The Impostor
Overview: The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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The Darker Side of Terror
1979-04-03
The Darker Side of Terror
Overview: A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agrees to assist his former professor in a cloning experiment in which a duplicate of himself is created -- and which then, with a mind and will of its own, falls in love with the biologist's wife.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-03
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The Godless Girl
1928-08-20
The Godless Girl
Overview: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-20
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963-11-06
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Overview: Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
Broadway to Hollywood
Overview: In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Dark Mountain
1944-09-01
Dark Mountain
Overview: A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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The Perils of Petersboro
1926-09-26
The Perils of Petersboro
Overview: The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Should Husbands Marry?
1926-10-26
Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-26
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Kitty from Killarney
1926-12-19
Kitty from Killarney
Overview: Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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Girl Crazy
1932-03-24
Girl Crazy
Overview: New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-24
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The College Kiddo
1927-08-07
The College Kiddo
Overview: The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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The Bull Fighter
1927-11-27
The Bull Fighter
Overview: The Bull Fighter is a 1927 short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-27
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Love in a Police Station
1927-12-25
Love in a Police Station
Overview: Love in a Police Station is a comedy short released in 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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For Sale, a Bungalow
1927-10-30
For Sale, a Bungalow
Overview: For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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She Lives!
1973-09-12
She Lives!
Overview: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal cancer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-12
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Sideshow
1950-06-18
Sideshow
Overview: A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-18
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The Tip-Off
1931-10-16
The Tip-Off
Overview: A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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Here Comes Kelly
1943-09-19
Here Comes Kelly
Overview: Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-19
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Dark Streets of Cairo
1940-12-01
Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Melody Parade
1943-08-27
Melody Parade
Overview: The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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Catalina, Here I Come
1927-04-16
Catalina, Here I Come
Overview: Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-16
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The Big Shot
1931-12-31
The Big Shot
Overview: A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Sweepstakes
1931-07-10
Sweepstakes
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
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Hollywood Party
1934-05-24
Hollywood Party
Overview: Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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Mad Bull
1977-12-21
Mad Bull
Overview: An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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Crabbin' in the Cabin
1948-05-13
Crabbin' in the Cabin
Overview: Wally and Eddie's hunting trip is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-13
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Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
1948-12-16
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
Overview: Wally intends to have a nice quiet day at home, until his brother-in-law Eddie shows up with his kids.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-16
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House About It
1950-07-20
House About It
Overview: Wally and his family and Eddie and his family all wind up living in the same house. Complications ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-20
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Let Down Your Aerial
1949-11-17
Let Down Your Aerial
Overview: Eddie buys a new TV set and Wally offers to help him put up his roof antenna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Fun on the Run
1951-05-10
Fun on the Run
Overview: Wally and Eddie head for Reno, Nevada to get jobs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-10
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He Flew the Shrew
1951-01-11
He Flew the Shrew
Overview: Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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He Popped His Pistol
1953-05-14
He Popped His Pistol
Overview: Vernon and Eddie run a shoe-store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-14
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His Pest Friend
1955-01-20
His Pest Friend
Overview: The boys install a television aerial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-20
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A-Hunting They Did Go
1953-10-24
A-Hunting They Did Go
Overview: The boys go off on a hunting weekend, followed closely by their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-24
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Strop, Look and Listen
1952-12-11
Strop, Look and Listen
Overview: Eddie and Wally are barbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-11
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He Took a Powder
1955-10-27
He Took a Powder
Overview: Wally leaves his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Nobody's Home
1955-06-09
Nobody's Home
Overview: The boys unknowingly purchase the same house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-09
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Doggie in the Bedroom
1954-01-07
Doggie in the Bedroom
Overview: Eddie visits, with his annoying kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978-01-23
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Overview: Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-23
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Jungle Raiders
1945-09-14
Jungle Raiders
Overview: Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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Jungle Queen
1945-01-22
Jungle Queen
Overview: A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Gridiron Flash
1934-10-06
Gridiron Flash
Overview: A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
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London by Night
1937-07-30
London by Night
Overview: A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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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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Dancing on a Dime
1940-11-01
Dancing on a Dime
Overview: Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Mystery of the Riverboat
1944-10-24
Mystery of the Riverboat
Overview: A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-24
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The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07
The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Summer Magic
1963-07-07
Summer Magic
Overview: Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up
Genres: Music Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-07
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Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975-02-28
Melvin Purvis G-Man
Overview: Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Brigadoon
1954-09-08
Brigadoon
Overview: Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-08
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For the Love of It
1980-09-26
For the Love of It
Overview: An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Slightly Terrific
1944-04-01
Slightly Terrific
Overview: A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Show Folks
1928-10-20
Show Folks
Overview: Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
1944-03-22
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Overview: An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-22
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The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
1980-04-21
The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
Overview: Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain a celebrity of sorts, by the whole country, which wants to partake of their largesse in their coast-to-coast spending spree.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-21
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Father of Hell Town
1985-03-06
Father of Hell Town
Overview: In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto priest in an impoverished inner-city parish.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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The Family Next Door
1939-03-30
The Family Next Door
Overview: Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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The Sophomore
1929-08-24
The Sophomore
Overview: Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Frankie and Johnny
1966-03-31
Frankie and Johnny
Overview: Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936-08-14
The Gentleman from Louisiana
Overview: In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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Strictly Personal
1933-03-17
Strictly Personal
Overview: Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Alaska Highway
1943-06-24
Alaska Highway
Overview: Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Coswell, the daughter of road engineer Blair Caswell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Geraldine
1929-01-20
Geraldine
Overview: Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten with the aloof lawyer Bell Cameron, initially embraces Eddie's lessons. However, Eddie falls for her genuine spirit and clashes with Mr. Wygate's aspirations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-20
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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
1966-01-20
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Overview: Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Genres: Comedy Family Mystery Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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White Mama
1980-03-05
White Mama
Overview: A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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Dixie Jamboree
1944-08-15
Dixie Jamboree
Overview: A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Sensation Hunters
1945-10-12
Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Twilight on the Prairie
1944-04-30
Twilight on the Prairie
Overview: In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-30
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Follow the Band
1943-04-01
Follow the Band
Overview: A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Swing, Sister, Swing
1938-12-16
Swing, Sister, Swing
Overview: In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Hawaiian Nights
1939-09-08
Hawaiian Nights
Overview: Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941-01-03
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Too Many Blondes
1941-08-01
Too Many Blondes
Overview: The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising situation with brassy blonde showgirl Hortense (Iris Adrian), Virginia is encouraged to inaugurate divorce proceedings by her oily ex-beau Ted (Jerome Cowan). It all winds up in Mexico, with Dick ardently chasing Virginia until she catches him.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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La Conga Nights
1940-05-31
La Conga Nights
Overview: In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
1941-01-17
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Overview: The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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Hi'ya, Sailor
1943-10-08
Hi'ya, Sailor
Overview: Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Song of the Sarong
1945-04-01
Song of the Sarong
Overview: An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
Genres: Music Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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The Golf Nut
1927-09-03
The Golf Nut
Overview: Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Moonlight and Cactus
1944-09-08
Moonlight and Cactus
Overview: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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It Ain't Hay
1943-03-10
It Ain't Hay
Overview: Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Flying Blind
1941-08-29
Flying Blind
Overview: A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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A Guy Could Change
1946-01-27
A Guy Could Change
Overview: A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-27
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Jungle Safari
1956-01-01
Jungle Safari
Overview: Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Promises! Promises!
1963-08-01
Promises! Promises!
Overview: After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-01
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The Bounty Killer
1965-07-30
The Bounty Killer
Overview: Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-30
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Lifetime of Comedy
1960-01-01
Lifetime of Comedy
Overview: Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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How to Frame a Figg
1971-02-01
How to Frame a Figg
Overview: Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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The Strongest Man in the World
1975-02-06
The Strongest Man in the World
Overview: Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972-07-12
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Overview: Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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Priorities on Parade
1942-07-23
Priorities on Parade
Overview: Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-23
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Incident on a Dark Street
1973-01-13
Incident on a Dark Street
Overview: A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968-07-10
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Overview: Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-10
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Heebie Gee-Gees
1952-04-09
Heebie Gee-Gees
Overview: Wally Vernon and Eddie Quillan, each in trouble with their respective spouse, spend the day at the race track. When they accidentally bet on the wrong horse rather than the one they had picked, they hit a long-shot winner. But their more-than-irate wives show up before they can collect their winnings, and the only winner is Big Dan, the bookie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-09
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This Is the Life
1944-06-01
This Is the Life
Overview: 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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Hitchhike!
1974-02-23
Hitchhike!
Overview: A Los Angeles woman, on her way to visit her sister in San Fransisco, picks up a hitchhiker who has just killed his stepmother. Charmed by him, she fails to notice his strange behavior until it is too late.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-23
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The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
1970-11-16
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Overview: Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-16
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Move Over, Darling
1963-12-19
Move Over, Darling
Overview: Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-19
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A Fool and His Honey
1952-01-10
A Fool and His Honey
Overview: Wally suspects Eddie of having more than a friendly interest in Wally's wife, and his suspicions, he thinks, are confirmed when he finds Eddie in his apartment. Eddie has a logical reason for being there, but Wally won't listen and the chase is on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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Big Money
1930-10-28
Big Money
Overview: A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-28
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Zebra in the Kitchen
1965-06-01
Zebra in the Kitchen
Overview: A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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Her Actor Friend
1926-08-29
Her Actor Friend
Overview: A 1926 comedy short directed by Eddy Cline.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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