Byron Foulger
Biography: An American character actor who over a 50-year career performed in hundreds of stage, film, and television productions.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 26, 1898
Deathday: April 04, 1970
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Known For
Pocketful of Miracles
1961-12-18
Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Till the Clouds Roll By
1946-12-05
Till the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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The Show-Off
1946-12-01
The Show-Off
Overview: Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-01
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Mutiny
1952-03-05
Mutiny
Overview: Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
Genres: Adventure War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-05
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Apache Country
1952-05-30
Apache Country
Overview: A criminal gang provokes the local Apaches in order to divert the authorities' attention from their own activities.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Cripple Creek
1952-06-30
Cripple Creek
Overview: It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-30
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Ellis in Freedomland
1952-06-15
Ellis in Freedomland
Overview: Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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Confidentially Connie
1953-03-12
Confidentially Connie
Overview: Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-12
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Gun Belt
1953-07-24
Gun Belt
Overview: Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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The Moonlighter
1953-09-19
The Moonlighter
Overview: Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck), who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-19
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The Gnome-Mobile
1967-07-19
The Gnome-Mobile
Overview: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-19
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Guns of Diablo
1964-10-04
Guns of Diablo
Overview: 14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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The Spirit Is Willing
1967-07-07
The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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Marriage on the Rocks
1965-09-24
Marriage on the Rocks
Overview: Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his wife Valerie marries his best friend Ernie Brewer by mistake.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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The Swinger
1966-11-13
The Swinger
Overview: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019-11-14
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Genres: Documentary Drama Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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The Rocket Man
1954-04-01
The Rocket Man
Overview: After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Man from God's Country
1958-02-09
Man from God's Country
Overview: Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. At first mistaken for a railroad agent by Beau Santee, a Sundown businessman who wants to keep the railroad away from his town, Dan is nearly killed by Santee's henchman, Mark Faber. Dan discovers that his old pal Curt works for Santee. Even after learning Dan's true identity, Santee considers him trouble and plots to get rid of him. With the help of Curt's son Stony, Dan tries to get Curt to take a stand on the right side of the law.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-09
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Silver Lode
1954-07-23
Silver Lode
Overview: Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-23
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Curfew Breakers
1957-03-22
Curfew Breakers
Overview: Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-22
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The Phantom Stagecoach
1957-03-31
The Phantom Stagecoach
Overview: A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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High School Big Shot
1959-10-16
High School Big Shot
Overview: Unpopular at school because of his high I.Q., neglected by his weak and alcoholic father, Marvin is easy prey for the campus vamb, Betty, who pretends an interest in Marv only so that he will write her term paper. When the two are discovered cheating by their professor, the longed-for scholarship recommendation is withdrawn. Meanwhile the jealousy of Betty's boy friend has been aroused and when Marv learns that he can only hold the girl's affections by offering her riches, he plans a million dollar robbery. Even the professional gangsters with whom he works are amazed at the brilliance of the young genius. Again, however, he is double crossed by Betty who has warned her friend and his gang of the plan. When the police also learn of the activities the project as well as the lives of a number of the boys ends in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1960-02-03
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Overview: Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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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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Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941-10-24
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Overview: On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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We're Not Married!
1952-07-11
We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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True Confession
1937-12-24
True Confession
Overview: A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Chinatown at Midnight
1949-11-17
Chinatown at Midnight
Overview: A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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The Man They Could Not Hang
1939-08-17
The Man They Could Not Hang
Overview: Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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He Walked by Night
1949-02-06
He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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The Long, Hot Summer
1958-05-17
The Long, Hot Summer
Overview: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-17
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I Shot Jesse James
1949-02-26
I Shot Jesse James
Overview: Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-26
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Out of the Storm
1948-09-11
Out of the Storm
Overview: Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-11
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Home Town Story
1951-05-18
Home Town Story
Overview: Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Experiment Alcatraz
1950-11-21
Experiment Alcatraz
Overview: A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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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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Superman and the Mole-Men
1951-11-23
Superman and the Mole-Men
Overview: Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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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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Rose of Cimarron
1952-01-28
Rose of Cimarron
Overview: A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-28
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The Little Minister
1934-12-28
The Little Minister
Overview: The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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They Live by Night
1949-11-01
They Live by Night
Overview: An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Sullivan's Travels
1941-11-30
Sullivan's Travels
Overview: Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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Gangster's Boy
1938-11-16
Gangster's Boy
Overview: A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-16
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Who's Minding the Store?
1963-11-28
Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Terror in a Texas Town
1958-09-01
Terror in a Texas Town
Overview: Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be the guilty party.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Mighty Joe Young
1949-07-27
Mighty Joe Young
Overview: A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
1946-11-22
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Overview: A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-22
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Lady in the Death House
1944-03-15
Lady in the Death House
Overview: As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-15
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940-11-30
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Overview: Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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The River's Edge
1957-04-11
The River's Edge
Overview: A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-11
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The Chinese Ring
1947-12-06
The Chinese Ring
Overview: Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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Arson, Inc.
1949-06-24
Arson, Inc.
Overview: An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-24
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The Panther's Claw
1942-03-03
The Panther's Claw
Overview: The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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The Sixth Column
1970-03-10
The Sixth Column
Overview: Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
Bad Little Angel
Overview: A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Night World
1932-05-04
Night World
Overview: "Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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Thunder Over Arizona
1956-08-04
Thunder Over Arizona
Overview: Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-04
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Footlight Varieties
1951-03-21
Footlight Varieties
Overview: A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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The Black Raven
1943-05-31
The Black Raven
Overview: One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Hidden Eye
1945-08-31
The Hidden Eye
Overview: A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-31
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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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Devil's Partner
1961-09-19
Devil's Partner
Overview: An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-19
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FBI Girl
1951-11-04
FBI Girl
Overview: G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-04
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The Three Musketeers
1948-10-20
The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Tenth Avenue Kid
1938-08-22
Tenth Avenue Kid
Overview: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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So Proudly We Hail
1943-09-09
So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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The French Key
1946-05-18
The French Key
Overview: Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-18
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Bells of San Fernando
1947-03-01
Bells of San Fernando
Overview: In the New Spain era, a tyrant ruling the San Fernando Valley attempts to wrestle a blacksmith’s daughter from the arms of her Irish sailor fiancé.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945-01-19
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Overview: A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
Sis Hopkins
Overview: An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-12
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Larceny on the Air
1937-01-11
Larceny on the Air
Overview: A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-11
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The Duke Comes Back
1937-11-29
The Duke Comes Back
Overview: After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-29
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The Flaming Urge
1953-09-27
The Flaming Urge
Overview: A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-27
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Gasoline Alley
1951-01-02
Gasoline Alley
Overview: A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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Tarnished Angel
1938-10-28
Tarnished Angel
Overview: A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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I Want a Divorce
1940-09-20
I Want a Divorce
Overview: Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Beware Spooks!
1939-10-24
Beware Spooks!
Overview: A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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Paris Model
1953-11-10
Paris Model
Overview: A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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The Devil Diamond
1937-01-15
The Devil Diamond
Overview: A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Genres: Drama Crime Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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The Desperados Are in Town
1956-11-01
The Desperados Are in Town
Overview: In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Strange Glory
1938-07-01
Strange Glory
Overview: During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tennessee River. This proved to be a vital action for the North in its push south...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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The Plainsman and the Lady
1946-11-11
The Plainsman and the Lady
Overview: Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1947-03-07
Easy Come, Easy Go
Overview: Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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The Devil Is Driving
1937-06-25
The Devil Is Driving
Overview: In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Going Steady
1958-02-01
Going Steady
Overview: Two high-school students keep their marriage a secret from their family and friends, but they're forced to confess when the teenage wife learns she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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The Iron Sheriff
1957-04-01
The Iron Sheriff
Overview: Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Man From Headquarters
1942-01-23
Man From Headquarters
Overview: A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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The Spider's Web
1938-10-21
The Spider's Web
Overview: Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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The Master Key
1945-04-24
The Master Key
Overview: Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
Genres: Action War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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Sierra Stranger
1957-05-01
Sierra Stranger
Overview: A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Exile Express
1939-05-27
Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Silver Spurs
1943-08-12
Silver Spurs
Overview: Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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King of the Wild Stallions
1959-05-17
King of the Wild Stallions
Overview: A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-17
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Born to Be Wild
1938-02-16
Born to Be Wild
Overview: Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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Boom Town
1940-08-30
Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Delinquent Parents
1938-07-15
Delinquent Parents
Overview: A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-15
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The Lady in the Morgue
1938-04-22
The Lady in the Morgue
Overview: A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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Miss Annie Rooney
1942-05-29
Miss Annie Rooney
Overview: A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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San Quentin
1946-12-16
San Quentin
Overview: An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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Television Spy
1939-10-20
Television Spy
Overview: A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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The Rebel Set
1959-06-28
The Rebel Set
Overview: Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-28
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941-11-18
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Overview: The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-18
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Snafu
1945-11-22
Snafu
Overview: A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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Sweetheart of the Campus
1941-06-26
Sweetheart of the Campus
Overview: Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Margin for Error
1943-02-10
Margin for Error
Overview: When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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The Young Stranger
1957-02-01
The Young Stranger
Overview: The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942-05-07
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Overview: A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-07
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Ride the High Country
1962-06-20
Ride the High Country
Overview: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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The Man with Nine Lives
1940-04-18
The Man with Nine Lives
Overview: Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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History Is Made at Night
1937-03-05
History Is Made at Night
Overview: An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1945-10-04
Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944-09-18
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Overview: A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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The Luck of Roaring Camp
1937-11-17
The Luck of Roaring Camp
Overview: When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and promise to set aside money for him from their diggings. But when they strike it rich the money is gambled away instead.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Hold That Line
1952-03-23
Hold That Line
Overview: The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-23
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Arizona
1940-12-25
Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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A Man to Remember
1938-10-14
A Man to Remember
Overview: On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Smashing the Rackets
1938-08-08
Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Twelve Hours to Kill
1960-04-02
Twelve Hours to Kill
Overview: After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-02
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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944-06-10
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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Henry Aldrich Swings It
1943-06-23
Henry Aldrich Swings It
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
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Let Us Live
1939-03-29
Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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The Girl from Mexico
1939-06-01
The Girl from Mexico
Overview: Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Girl from Rio
1939-08-07
Girl from Rio
Overview: A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-07
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The Spellbinder
1939-07-28
The Spellbinder
Overview: Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939-07-31
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Overview: Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-31
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In Name Only
1939-08-18
In Name Only
Overview: A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Champagne for Caesar
1950-05-11
Champagne for Caesar
Overview: When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939-11-24
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Overview: Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Summer Storm
1944-07-14
Summer Storm
Overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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Too Many Winners
1947-05-24
Too Many Winners
Overview: Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-24
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The Steel Fist
1952-01-06
The Steel Fist
Overview: In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-06
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The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
The Lost Weekend
Overview: Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
Parole Fixer
Overview: This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Opened by Mistake
1940-05-10
Opened by Mistake
Overview: A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Good Bad Boys
1940-09-07
Good Bad Boys
Overview: Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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Golden Gloves
1940-08-02
Golden Gloves
Overview: An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Untamed
1940-07-24
Untamed
Overview: A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Mystery Ship
1941-09-03
Mystery Ship
Overview: FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-03
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Man-Made Monster
1941-03-28
Man-Made Monster
Overview: Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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Meet Boston Blackie
1941-02-20
Meet Boston Blackie
Overview: When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Under Age
1941-04-23
Under Age
Overview: Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-23
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The Gay Vagabond
1941-05-12
The Gay Vagabond
Overview: Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-12
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She Knew All the Answers
1941-05-13
She Knew All the Answers
Overview: Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-13
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Helping Hands
1941-09-29
Helping Hands
Overview: Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-29
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Purity Squad
1945-11-03
Purity Squad
Overview: This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-03
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You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
You Belong to Me
Overview: A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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The Stork Pays Off
1941-10-05
The Stork Pays Off
Overview: Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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Bedtime Story
1941-12-25
Bedtime Story
Overview: A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Overview: A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-04
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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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Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
Deadline at Dawn
Overview: A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-18
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942-04-17
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Overview: A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Reap the Wild Wind
1942-03-26
Reap the Wild Wind
Overview: The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942-05-01
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Overview: After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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The Magnificent Dope
1942-07-01
The Magnificent Dope
Overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The Palm Beach Story
1942-08-28
The Palm Beach Story
Overview: A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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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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The Forest Rangers
1942-10-21
The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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The Human Comedy
1943-03-02
The Human Comedy
Overview: Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Keep 'Em Sailing
1942-11-28
Keep 'Em Sailing
Overview: An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-28
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The Slowest Gun in the West
1960-05-07
The Slowest Gun in the West
Overview: The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-07
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Shantytown
1943-04-20
Shantytown
Overview: Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-20
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First Comes Courage
1943-07-29
First Comes Courage
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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The Adventures of a Rookie
1943-08-19
The Adventures of a Rookie
Overview: Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943-10-01
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Overview: An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
The President's Mystery
Overview: The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-28
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Soak the Poor
1937-08-21
Soak the Poor
Overview: This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-21
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A Day at the Races
1937-06-11
A Day at the Races
Overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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The Prisoner of Zenda
1937-09-03
The Prisoner of Zenda
Overview: A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Dick Tracy
1937-02-20
Dick Tracy
Overview: Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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King of the Newsboys
1938-03-18
King of the Newsboys
Overview: A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Test Pilot
1938-04-16
Test Pilot
Overview: Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-16
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You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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I Am the Law
1938-08-25
I Am the Law
Overview: With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-25
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I'll Tell the World
1939-03-09
I'll Tell the World
Overview: This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Smashing the Spy Ring
1938-12-29
Smashing the Spy Ring
Overview: G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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The Girl from Mexico
1939-06-01
The Girl from Mexico
Overview: Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Some Like It Hot
1939-05-19
Some Like It Hot
Overview: Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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A Woman is the Judge
1939-10-03
A Woman is the Judge
Overview: Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her mother, whom she's never met. As luck would have it, the presiding judge at Justine's trial is none other than Mary Cabot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-03
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Million Dollar Legs
1939-07-13
Million Dollar Legs
Overview: At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-13
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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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Once Upon a Time
1944-06-29
Once Upon a Time
Overview: Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-29
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Gambler's Choice
1944-04-27
Gambler's Choice
Overview: The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-27
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Stars on Parade
1944-05-25
Stars on Parade
Overview: In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" (Jack Lawrence), "It's Love, Love, Love" (Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer), "When They Ask about You" (Sammy Stept), "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" (Ben Carter, Mayes Marshall), "Taking Care of You" (Lou Brown, Harry Akst), "Where Am I Without You?" (Don Raye, Gene De Paul), "Two Hearts in the Dark" (Dave Franklin), "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944-06-03
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Overview: Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-03
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Take It Big
1944-06-09
Take It Big
Overview: Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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3 Men in White
1944-05-25
3 Men in White
Overview: Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competition. Lee's assignment is a small girl who falls ill whenever she eats candy. Red has to cure a girl's mother of a debilitating case of arthritis. But when Red needs Lee's help, will either one live with Gillespie's choice?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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A Night of Adventure
1944-06-02
A Night of Adventure
Overview: A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-02
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And Now Tomorrow
1944-11-22
And Now Tomorrow
Overview: Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-22
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Let's Go Steady
1945-01-04
Let's Go Steady
Overview: After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-04
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Music for Millions
1944-12-18
Music for Millions
Overview: Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Brewster's Millions
1945-04-07
Brewster's Millions
Overview: Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-07
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It's in the Bag!
1945-04-21
It's in the Bag!
Overview: The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-21
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Blonde from Brooklyn
1945-06-21
Blonde from Brooklyn
Overview: A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-21
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Wonder Man
1945-06-08
Wonder Man
Overview: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-08
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The Cheaters
1945-07-15
The Cheaters
Overview: An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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Breakfast in Hollywood
1946-02-26
Breakfast in Hollywood
Overview: The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-26
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People Are Funny
1946-01-11
People Are Funny
Overview: A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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Scarlet Street
1945-12-25
Scarlet Street
Overview: Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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Courage of Lassie
1946-11-08
Courage of Lassie
Overview: Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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Suspense
1946-06-15
Suspense
Overview: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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Sentimental Journey
1946-03-06
Sentimental Journey
Overview: An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-06
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The Mysterious Mr. M
1946-07-23
The Mysterious Mr. M
Overview: An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-23
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Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12
Dixie Dugan
Overview: Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970-04-01
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Overview: A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
Genres: Action Comedy Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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It's a Joke, Son!
1947-01-15
It's a Joke, Son!
Overview: Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947-05-10
Hard Boiled Mahoney
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
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The Adventures of Don Coyote
1947-05-09
The Adventures of Don Coyote
Overview: Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-09
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Unconquered
1947-10-10
Unconquered
Overview: England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-10
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The Long Night
1947-05-28
The Long Night
Overview: City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-28
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The Trouble with Women
1947-06-25
The Trouble with Women
Overview: A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Second Chance
1947-07-18
Second Chance
Overview: Jewel thieves battle investigators.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Linda, Be Good
1947-11-07
Linda, Be Good
Overview: A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-07
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Song of Love
1947-10-09
Song of Love
Overview: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
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I Was a Burlesque Queen
1953-07-13
I Was a Burlesque Queen
Overview: 1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Arch of Triumph
1948-02-17
Arch of Triumph
Overview: In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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A Southern Yankee
1948-08-05
A Southern Yankee
Overview: Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-05
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The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
The Kissing Bandit
Overview: Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
Genres: Western Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-14
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Relentless
1948-06-15
Relentless
Overview: A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-15
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Samson and Delilah
1949-12-21
Samson and Delilah
Overview: When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-21
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Key to the City
1950-02-02
Key to the City
Overview: At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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Streets of Laredo
1949-05-27
Streets of Laredo
Overview: Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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Tucson
1949-04-27
Tucson
Overview: The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Riding High
1950-04-12
Riding High
Overview: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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To Please a Lady
1950-10-13
To Please a Lady
Overview: Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-13
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The Return of Jesse James
1950-08-01
The Return of Jesse James
Overview: Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Dark City
1950-10-17
Dark City
Overview: Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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Pal, Canine Detective
1950-09-17
Pal, Canine Detective
Overview: Gary and his dog Pal are having fun working on make-believe crime cases, though Gary's father, a city detective, disapproves. Gary and Pal soon find themselves involved in a real case involving fur thieves.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-17
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Newlyweds Take a Chance
1951-08-08
Newlyweds Take a Chance
Overview: When her newlywed husband, Bob, mistakenly follows the diet prescribed for their dog and starts eating grass, Betty calls for a psychiatrist. To complicate their martial-bliss even more, Betty's parents comes for a visit and her father, a retired insurance salesman, forces an unneeded policy on Bob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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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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Best of the Badmen
1951-08-09
Best of the Badmen
Overview: After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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The Great Moment
1944-07-18
The Great Moment
Overview: The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-18
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Disc Jockey
1951-09-30
Disc Jockey
Overview: National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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Ever Since Venus
1944-09-14
Ever Since Venus
Overview: The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-14
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Barbary Coast Gent
1944-09-01
Barbary Coast Gent
Overview: Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Music in Manhattan
1944-10-06
Music in Manhattan
Overview: Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-06
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An American Romance
1944-04-16
An American Romance
Overview: A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-16
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Mrs. Parkington
1944-10-12
Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Girl Rush
1944-10-21
Girl Rush
Overview: During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960-11-20
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
Overview: Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disneyland Bowl, and get to enjoy a visit to the park.
Genres: Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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The Saint's Double Trouble
1940-01-26
The Saint's Double Trouble
Overview: Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Edison, the Man
1940-05-10
Edison, the Man
Overview: In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Coney Island
1943-06-18
Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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It's All in Your Mind
1938-03-28
It's All in Your Mind
Overview: Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-28
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Harvard Here I Come
1941-12-18
Harvard Here I Come
Overview: Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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Red Desert
1949-12-17
Red Desert
Overview: A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-17
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Beautiful But Broke
1944-01-28
Beautiful But Broke
Overview: Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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The Sniper
1952-05-09
The Sniper
Overview: Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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Swing in the Saddle
1944-07-30
Swing in the Saddle
Overview: In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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The Whistler
1944-03-30
The Whistler
Overview: A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-30
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Heroes of the Saddle
1940-12-01
Heroes of the Saddle
Overview: A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Voice of the Whistler
1945-10-30
Voice of the Whistler
Overview: A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-30
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Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
Just Before Dawn
Overview: In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-07
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Grissly's Millions
1945-01-16
Grissly's Millions
Overview: An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-16
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Arson Squad
1945-09-11
Arson Squad
Overview: Tom Mitchell is an insurance investigator and Fire Capt. Joe Dugan is chief of the police department's arson troubleshooters. Tom and Joe team up to solve a particularly vicious series of deliberate fires. A man has been killed in one conflagration, so the villains have a murder rap hanging over them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-11
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The Night of January 16th
1941-11-28
The Night of January 16th
Overview: Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Hoppy Serves a Writ
1943-03-12
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Overview: Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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In Old Oklahoma
1943-12-06
In Old Oklahoma
Overview: Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-06
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Ministry of Fear
1944-05-19
Ministry of Fear
Overview: Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-19
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937-05-09
Make Way for Tomorrow
Overview: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Skirts Ahoy!
1952-05-28
Skirts Ahoy!
Overview: Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-28
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Hi Diddle Diddle
1943-08-02
Hi Diddle Diddle
Overview: When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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The Bride Goes Wild
1948-03-03
The Bride Goes Wild
Overview: McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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The Secret of the Whistler
1946-11-07
The Secret of the Whistler
Overview: A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Sky Murder
1940-09-27
Sky Murder
Overview: This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Overview: Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Behind the News
1940-12-20
Behind the News
Overview: As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Three Faces West
1940-07-03
Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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Bandits of the West
1953-08-08
Bandits of the West
Overview: Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-08
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940-03-03
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Overview: A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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Dude Cowboy
1941-12-12
Dude Cowboy
Overview: A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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House of Horrors
1946-03-29
House of Horrors
Overview: An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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Hook, Line and Sinker
1969-06-06
Hook, Line and Sinker
Overview: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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The Magnetic Monster
1953-02-18
The Magnetic Monster
Overview: The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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The Sea Hornet
1951-11-06
The Sea Hornet
Overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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I Surrender Dear
1948-10-06
I Surrender Dear
Overview: Patty Nelson lands a job as a singer with orchestra leader Al Tyler, and tours with the band as "Patty Hart." Patty's father Russ is dismissed from his radio-station job, and the disc jockey selected to replace him is Al Tyler. Patty rushes home to keep Russ company on the air for the final few days, and Al wonders why she suddenly walked out on him. The new "Patty and Russ" radio show catches on, causing complications with Al and the radio-station bosses.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-06
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The Deadly Game
1941-08-08
The Deadly Game
Overview: A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Up In Smoke
1957-12-22
Up In Smoke
Overview: The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-22
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The Girl from San Lorenzo
1950-02-24
The Girl from San Lorenzo
Overview: Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-24
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Salt Lake Raiders
1950-05-01
Salt Lake Raiders
Overview: A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Sabotage
1939-10-13
Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Road to Happiness
1941-12-19
Road to Happiness
Overview: A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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Fancy Answers
1941-11-01
Fancy Answers
Overview: In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941-01-24
Ridin' on a Rainbow
Overview: When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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Dino
1957-07-21
Dino
Overview: A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-21
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Love and Learn
1947-05-02
Love and Learn
Overview: A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Curtain Call
1940-04-18
Curtain Call
Overview: Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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Satan's Cradle
1949-10-06
Satan's Cradle
Overview: Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-06
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The Dalton Gang
1949-10-20
The Dalton Gang
Overview: Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navajos or the Dalton Gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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Apache Trail
1942-09-01
Apache Trail
Overview: The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Sabotage Squad
1942-08-27
Sabotage Squad
Overview: A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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Blades of the Musketeers
1950-11-24
Blades of the Musketeers
Overview: In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Run for the Hills
1953-06-01
Run for the Hills
Overview: Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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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 Kansan
1943-09-10
The Kansan
Overview: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
Cattle Queen of Montana
Overview: Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939-07-21
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Overview: Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Say It in French
1938-11-25
Say It in French
Overview: An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Trouble on the Trail
1954-12-26
Trouble on the Trail
Overview: "Trouble on the Trail" is two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" television series edited together and released as a feature film by Allied Artists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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The Spoilers
1955-12-23
The Spoilers
Overview: In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Remember the Day
1941-12-25
Remember the Day
Overview: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Roar of the Press
1941-04-17
Roar of the Press
Overview: While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Adventure
1945-12-28
Adventure
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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Don Juan Quilligan
1945-06-01
Don Juan Quilligan
Overview: When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Blonde Inspiration
1941-02-07
Blonde Inspiration
Overview: A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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Phantom Trails
1955-05-08
Phantom Trails
Overview: A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series 'Wild Bill Hickok': "A Close Shave for the Marshal" (6/16/1952) and "Ghost Rider" (4/7/1952).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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The Buckskin Lady
1957-07-01
The Buckskin Lady
Overview: Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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I Am a Criminal
1938-12-07
I Am a Criminal
Overview: In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17
Mystery of the White Room
Overview: A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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The Power of God
1942-01-15
The Power of God
Overview: As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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My Six Convicts
1952-03-20
My Six Convicts
Overview: A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Cruisin' Down the River
1953-08-02
Cruisin' Down the River
Overview: A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse enemy.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Wrecking Crew
1942-11-07
Wrecking Crew
Overview: Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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Follow That Woman
1945-12-14
Follow That Woman
Overview: A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
1941-08-04
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Overview: A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-04
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Stand by for Action
1942-12-31
Stand by for Action
Overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Genres: Action Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Crime Ring
1938-07-08
Crime Ring
Overview: Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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The Return of October
1948-10-26
The Return of October
Overview: A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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A Perilous Journey
1953-04-05
A Perilous Journey
Overview: A ship of women embarks on a voyage to California. Director R. G. Springsteen's 1953 adventure drama stars Vera Ralston, David Brian, Virginia Grey, Charles Winninger, Veda Ann Borg and Hope Emerson.
Genres: Romance Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-05
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Let's Live a Little
1948-12-09
Let's Live a Little
Overview: A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-09
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943-05-08
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Overview: In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-08
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Fun on a Weekend
1947-05-15
Fun on a Weekend
Overview: Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-15
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The Falcon Strikes Back
1943-04-01
The Falcon Strikes Back
Overview: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Ladies of Washington
1944-05-25
Ladies of Washington
Overview: The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreational activities lead to her involvement in murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Blonde Alibi
1946-03-01
Blonde Alibi
Overview: Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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The Inspector General
1949-12-31
The Inspector General
Overview: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Lightning Strikes Twice
1951-04-12
Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Fingers at the Window
1942-04-22
Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
Dancing in the Dark
Overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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Pacific Rendezvous
1942-05-21
Pacific Rendezvous
Overview: A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Genres: Comedy Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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The Penalty
1941-03-13
The Penalty
Overview: In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-13
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Blackbeard's Ghost
1968-02-08
Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Cornered
1945-11-23
Cornered
Overview: A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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What a Woman
1943-12-29
What a Woman
Overview: An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-29
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Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944-08-23
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Overview: Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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Borrowed Trouble
1948-07-23
Borrowed Trouble
Overview: Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-23
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Magnificent Doll
1946-12-08
Magnificent Doll
Overview: While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-08
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Streets of New York
1939-04-12
Streets of New York
Overview: Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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The Mad Miss Manton
1938-10-21
The Mad Miss Manton
Overview: When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Michigan Kid
1947-08-11
Michigan Kid
Overview: A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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When Strangers Marry
1944-08-21
When Strangers Marry
Overview: A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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At Gunpoint
1955-12-25
At Gunpoint
Overview: A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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You Can't Run Away from It
1956-10-30
You Can't Run Away from It
Overview: A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946-05-02
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Overview: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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Maisie Goes to Reno
1944-08-15
Maisie Goes to Reno
Overview: A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Union Station
1950-10-04
Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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They Won't Believe Me
1947-07-16
They Won't Believe Me
Overview: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Trouble Preferred
1948-12-31
Trouble Preferred
Overview: A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942-02-26
The Adventures of Martin Eden
Overview: Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-26
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1970-09-18
There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
Appointment in Berlin
Overview: The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-15
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Son of Flubber
1963-01-16
Son of Flubber
Overview: Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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Flying with Music
1942-05-22
Flying with Music
Overview: The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with several pretty young ladies. Marjorie Woodworth plays the girl who helps Marshall in his escape, pausing occasionally to participate in a some lively but forgettable musical numbers.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
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