David Bruce
Biography: David Bruce (born Marden Andrew McBroom; January 6, 1914 – May 3, 1976) was an American film actor, known for his chilling performance as Ted Allison in The Mad Ghoul. He was a company member of Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wisconsin in 1939. Born in Kankakee, Illinois, he signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1940. The Northwestern University graduate appeared in many movies from the 1940s until 1955 when Bruce decided to give up acting. The 6' 1" (1.85 m) actor appeared in over 60 movies including Flying Tigers (1942), Christmas Holiday (1944) and Lady on a Train (1945).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 06, 1916
Deathday: May 03, 1976
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Santa Fe Trail
1940-12-20
Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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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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Revenue Agent
1950-12-12
Revenue Agent
Overview: Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
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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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The Sea Wolf
1941-03-21
The Sea Wolf
Overview: Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Calling Dr. Death
1943-12-17
Calling Dr. Death
Overview: Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Can't Help Singing
1944-12-25
Can't Help Singing
Overview: With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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That Night with You
1945-09-28
That Night with You
Overview: In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Alice in Movieland
1940-03-03
Alice in Movieland
Overview: In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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Pier 23
1951-05-11
Pier 23
Overview: Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison. The film's two-part structure leads to repetition and predictability, but it's fun to watch TV's "Ward Cleaver" making like Philip Marlowe.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-11
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The Smiling Ghost
1941-09-06
The Smiling Ghost
Overview: Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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The Mad Ghoul
1943-11-12
The Mad Ghoul
Overview: A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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Hi-Jacked
1950-07-07
Hi-Jacked
Overview: A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Salome, Where She Danced
1945-04-17
Salome, Where She Danced
Overview: During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
Genres: Western War Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Jungle Hell
1956-10-17
Jungle Hell
Overview: Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Flight from Destiny
1941-02-08
Flight from Destiny
Overview: After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Pygmy Island
1950-11-22
Pygmy Island
Overview: Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-22
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
1953-09-17
The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Overview: Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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The Sickle or the Cross
1949-07-01
The Sickle or the Cross
Overview: Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Singapore Woman
1941-05-17
Singapore Woman
Overview: A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-17
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Timber Fury
1950-06-02
Timber Fury
Overview: Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint)), and finds him in a struggle to keep his holdings. Wilson's foreman, McCabe (George Slocum), is employed by Wilson's enemy to destroy his company. Jim Caldwell (David Bruce), an engineer, is hired by Wilson and falls in love with Phyllis. McCabe kills Wilson and Sheriff Williams (Lee Phelps) thinks Caldwell is the killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940-07-16
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Overview: A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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Racing Luck
1948-11-18
Racing Luck
Overview: Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. Then Stuart learns that the horse will not run without its former stablemate. But neither Stuart nor the Warrens want to give up their respective horses. It is finally agreed that both horses will be entered in the same race, and the winning owner will gain possession of both horses. The only complication is that Phyllis has fallen in love with Stuart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-18
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Highways by Night
1942-10-02
Highways by Night
Overview: A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Moon Over Las Vegas
1944-04-01
Moon Over Las Vegas
Overview: A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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March On, Marines
1940-12-14
March On, Marines
Overview: Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam. He soon finds out that his younger brother, Jimmy Lansing, just recently made sergeant as well, will also be taking the exam with him. The Lansing brothers are hard working and patriotic military men and both deserve to be accepted into the Academy, but they learn there is only one spot available. As entrance into Annapolis is dependent both on their exam results and their record, they are encouraged by the base colonel to enter into a friendly rivalry for the three weeks on the base prior to the exam. They also enter into a friendly rivalry for the affections of Penelope Hayworth, the admiral's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-14
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Ladies Courageous
1944-02-02
Ladies Courageous
Overview: Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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The Yellow Haired Kid
1952-11-02
The Yellow Haired Kid
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Allergic to Love
1944-07-21
Allergic to Love
Overview: Newlywed bliss surround O'Driscoll and Beery until they get on board the ship for their honeymoon in South America. Then she starts sneezing, and hay fever's uncontrollable grip does not seem to want to let up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-21
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She's for Me
1943-12-10
She's for Me
Overview: Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-10
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Honeymoon Lodge
1943-07-23
Honeymoon Lodge
Overview: Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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Susie Steps Out
1946-12-13
Susie Steps Out
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-13
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Cannibal Attack
1954-11-01
Cannibal Attack
Overview: Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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How's About It
1943-01-01
How's About It
Overview: A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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The Letter
1940-11-21
The Letter
Overview: After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-21
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Pony Express Days
1940-07-13
Pony Express Days
Overview: In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-13
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A Dispatch from Reuters
1940-10-19
A Dispatch from Reuters
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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East of the River
1940-11-09
East of the River
Overview: Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Knute Rockne All American
1940-10-05
Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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The Body Disappears
1941-11-22
The Body Disappears
Overview: Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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Young Daniel Boone
1950-03-05
Young Daniel Boone
Overview: Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-05
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Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
1950-12-08
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
Overview: An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his help. When he gets there he discovers that his daughter, a lawyer, is under great stress because of her biggest client, an old geezer who is the wealthiest and most powerful man in town. The girl's father decides to make the old man "disappear" by performing a rain dance he learned from an Indian chief back in Wyoming--and lo and behold it starts to rain and the old man does indeed disappear. The local sheriff, however, suspects foul play and arrests the girl's father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Flying Tigers
1942-10-08
Flying Tigers
Overview: Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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River's End
1940-08-10
River's End
Overview: An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays two roles.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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The Mummy's Ghost
1944-07-07
The Mummy's Ghost
Overview: An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Iron Glove
1954-04-01
The Iron Glove
Overview: Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
1943-10-22
You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
Overview: A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-22
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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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South of Dixie
1944-06-23
South of Dixie
Overview: To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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Money and the Woman
1940-08-17
Money and the Woman
Overview: An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-17
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Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
1949-03-06
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
Overview: Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-06
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Gung Ho!
1943-12-20
Gung Ho!
Overview: A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-20
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Prejudice
1949-10-17
Prejudice
Overview: Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Adventures of Don Juan
1948-12-24
Adventures of Don Juan
Overview: Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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