Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 22, 1915
Deathday: May 25, 1993
Popularity:
1956-09-13
Overview: A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-13
Popularity:
1948-07-16
Overview: A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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1953-07-18
Overview: A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-18
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1945-01-20
Overview: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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1955-06-23
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
Popularity:
1974-08-08
Overview: Police try to halt a psychotic killer's rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-08
Popularity:
1952-03-06
Overview: A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-06
Popularity:
1955-06-24
Overview: Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-24
Popularity:
1948-09-14
Overview: A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-14
Popularity:
1959-07-01
Overview: Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
Popularity:
1946-09-28
Overview: Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-28
Popularity:
1945-12-29
Overview: Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-29
Popularity:
1953-04-18
Overview: A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-18
Popularity:
1947-12-06
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
Popularity:
1942-06-05
Overview: The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
Popularity:
1947-05-10
Overview: Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-10
Popularity:
1972-11-10
Overview: Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current number one star of the team. Karen proves herself a feisty competitor but refuses to be a team player. As she skates her way to roller stardom, she incurs the wrath of jealous team members and the owner of the team.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-10
Popularity:
1952-04-23
Overview: An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-23
Popularity:
1992-08-26
Overview: A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
Popularity:
1974-12-04
Overview: A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-04
Popularity:
1948-12-28
Overview: Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
Popularity:
1959-03-25
Overview: Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe, who guard the mines. Along the way, Harry and his friend Rick meet and take with them Erica, daughter of a missionary killed by a local tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-25
Popularity:
1947-07-17
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
Popularity:
1957-10-12
Overview: A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money consignment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-12
Popularity:
1952-11-01
Overview: Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
Genres: Western Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-01
Popularity:
1946-08-09
Overview: Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
Popularity:
1943-01-15
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
Popularity:
1973-10-17
Overview: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-17
Popularity:
1947-04-12
Overview: Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-12
Popularity:
1952-06-06
Overview: A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-06
Popularity:
1946-05-10
Overview: The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-10
Popularity:
1951-06-13
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
Popularity:
1954-08-05
Overview: A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-05
Popularity:
1943-04-06
Overview: The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
Popularity:
1950-11-04
Overview: Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-04
Popularity:
1943-12-16
Overview: A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
Genres: Action Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
Popularity:
1953-10-14
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
Popularity:
1942-08-17
Overview: Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
Popularity:
1945-11-02
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
Popularity:
1949-07-31
Overview: When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-31
Popularity:
1942-12-18
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
Popularity:
1950-03-01
Overview: Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
Popularity:
1997-01-05
Overview: Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-05
Popularity:
1942-11-10
Overview: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
Popularity:
1949-10-15
Overview: The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-15
Popularity:
1950-08-05
Overview: Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
Popularity:
1943-06-02
Overview: After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-02
Popularity:
1953-02-01
Overview: Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
Popularity:
1951-10-26
Overview: A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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