Charles Cane
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Birthday: April 18, 1899
Deathday: November 30, 1973
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Dead Reckoning
1946-12-31
Dead Reckoning
Overview: War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Kansas City Confidential
1952-11-11
Kansas City Confidential
Overview: An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-11
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Lucky Me
1954-04-09
Lucky Me
Overview: Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-09
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Revenge of the Creature
1955-05-13
Revenge of the Creature
Overview: In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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Framed
1947-05-25
Framed
Overview: Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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Quiet Please, Murder
1943-03-19
Quiet Please, Murder
Overview: A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-19
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
1943-05-10
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Overview: Gildersleeve has jury duty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-10
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Bodyguard
1948-09-04
Bodyguard
Overview: A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-04
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The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947-03-06
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Overview: A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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Born Yesterday
1950-12-26
Born Yesterday
Overview: Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Southside 1-1000
1950-11-16
Southside 1-1000
Overview: The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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No Escape
1953-07-31
No Escape
Overview: When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-31
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Ruby Gentry
1952-12-25
Ruby Gentry
Overview: A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Valley of the Zombies
1946-05-26
Valley of the Zombies
Overview: A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Dangerous Mission
1954-03-06
Dangerous Mission
Overview: A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-06
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The Steel Jungle
1956-03-10
The Steel Jungle
Overview: The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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My Favorite Blonde
1942-04-02
My Favorite Blonde
Overview: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Come to Dinner
1934-02-24
Come to Dinner
Overview: MGM's all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, 'Jean Harlow' , et al.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-24
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The Kid from Brooklyn
1946-03-21
The Kid from Brooklyn
Overview: Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-21
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Native Son
1951-03-02
Native Son
Overview: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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The Hairy Ape
1944-07-02
The Hairy Ape
Overview: Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-02
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Lucky Jordan
1942-11-16
Lucky Jordan
Overview: Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Girl on the Run
1958-10-10
Girl on the Run
Overview: A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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The Blonde Bandit
1949-12-22
The Blonde Bandit
Overview: A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Prison Warden
1949-10-29
Prison Warden
Overview: The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Lady on a Train
1945-08-03
Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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All Through the Night
1942-01-10
All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Casanova Brown
1944-08-23
Casanova Brown
Overview: Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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Gun Battle at Monterey
1957-10-27
Gun Battle at Monterey
Overview: An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-27
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Girls in the Night
1953-01-15
Girls in the Night
Overview: Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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The Dark Past
1948-12-22
The Dark Past
Overview: A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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In a Lonely Place
1950-05-17
In a Lonely Place
Overview: A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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A Day of Fury
1956-05-02
A Day of Fury
Overview: Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Holiday Affair
1955-12-22
Holiday Affair
Overview: Connie is a widow and mother whose work involves checking up on the competition for her department store employer. When Steve, a charming salesman at a competing store, recognizes her true motives but refuses to expose her, he ends up getting fired as a result. Feeling guilty, Connie agrees to buy lunch for Steve, striking up a friendship that complicates her relationship with Carl, a lawyer who wants to marry her.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Crime of the Century
1946-02-28
Crime of the Century
Overview: Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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Christmas Holiday
1944-07-31
Christmas Holiday
Overview: Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-31
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Marty
1955-04-11
Marty
Overview: Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-11
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The Killing
1956-06-06
The Killing
Overview: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Crime Wave
1953-10-22
Crime Wave
Overview: Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-22
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The Man in the Trunk
1942-09-19
The Man in the Trunk
Overview: The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942-06-25
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-25
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Tenth Avenue Angel
1948-02-20
Tenth Avenue Angel
Overview: Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-20
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The Big Heat
1953-10-14
The Big Heat
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
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1956-10-02
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
Overview: Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their father will let them work on one of his cases. Disappointed when he tells them his work is too dangerous for children, they are more determined than ever to follow in their dad's footsteps, and solve mysteries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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Belle Le Grand
1951-01-27
Belle Le Grand
Overview: Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-27
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Bells of Capistrano
1942-09-15
Bells of Capistrano
Overview: America's favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, both angling to ride the talented crooner to riches. Featuring several memorable musical performances from Autry, including renditions of "Forgive Me" and "In Old Capistrano," this rousing Western co-stars Smiley Burnette, Virginia Grey and Lucien Littlefield.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-15
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Invaders from Mars
1953-04-22
Invaders from Mars
Overview: In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Adventures in Silverado
1948-03-25
Adventures in Silverado
Overview: Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961-05-04
The Gambler Wore a Gun
Overview: The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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The Lady and the Monster
1944-04-17
The Lady and the Monster
Overview: A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-17
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Corvette K-225
1943-09-29
Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01
Mr. Lucky
Overview: A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-01
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True to Life
1943-12-24
True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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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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The Great Jewel Robber
1950-07-15
The Great Jewel Robber
Overview: Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-15
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Convicted
1950-08-01
Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Too Young to Kiss
1951-11-22
Too Young to Kiss
Overview: Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Overview: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949-09-20
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Overview: Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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The Big Street
1942-08-13
The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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The Dark Corner
1946-04-09
The Dark Corner
Overview: Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-09
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Brimstone
1949-08-15
Brimstone
Overview: A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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