Christian Rub
Biography: Christian Rub was an Austrian-born American character actor. He was the visual basis and voice of Mister Geppetto in the animated Disney film Pinocchio (1940).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 13, 1886
Deathday: April 14, 1956
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The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
The Great Waltz
Overview: Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-04
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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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Berlin Correspondent
1942-08-17
Berlin Correspondent
Overview: Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Hidden Power
1939-09-07
Hidden Power
Overview: Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Café Metropole
1937-04-28
Café Metropole
Overview: An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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Humanity
1933-03-03
Humanity
Overview: A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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No More Women
1934-03-03
No More Women
Overview: Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-03
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The Night Is Young
1935-01-11
The Night Is Young
Overview: Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
1995-07-21
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
Overview: Sing, dance, and play along with your favorite Disney songs! It's fun and easy as you read the on-screen lyrics and join your favorite characters in their most memorable musical moments! Celebrate the music and learn your favorite songs from Disney's 33rd animated hit, Pocahontas! This colorful musical celebration includes "Just Around the Riverbend" and "Colors of the Wind". Plus, a new "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" montage from The Lion King, "The Work Song", and other popular Disney songs performed by your favorite Disney characters!
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-21
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936-02-17
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
Mark of the Vampire
Overview: Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora, or perhaps his daughter, but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Little Man, What Now?
1934-06-04
Little Man, What Now?
Overview: A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-04
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Luxury Liner
1933-02-03
Luxury Liner
Overview: This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Metropolitan
1935-10-17
Metropolitan
Overview: Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-17
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Peter Ibbetson
1935-11-07
Peter Ibbetson
Overview: When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-07
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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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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933-07-22
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Pinocchio
1940-02-23
Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Father's Son
1941-02-12
Father's Son
Overview: A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-12
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Fall Guy
1947-03-15
Fall Guy
Overview: A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-15
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No Other Woman
1933-01-06
No Other Woman
Overview: A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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Ladies Crave Excitement
1935-06-21
Ladies Crave Excitement
Overview: Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-21
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Dangerously They Live
1941-12-24
Dangerously They Live
Overview: A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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The Crooked Circle
1932-09-25
The Crooked Circle
Overview: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Hitch Hike Lady
1935-12-28
Hitch Hike Lady
Overview: Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-28
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Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Let 'em Have It
Overview: Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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We're Only Human
1935-12-27
We're Only Human
Overview: A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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A Man of Sentiment
1933-09-15
A Man of Sentiment
Overview: A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Haunted House
1940-07-21
Haunted House
Overview: Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-21
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Something for the Birds
1952-09-30
Something for the Birds
Overview: A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-30
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Earthbound
1940-06-06
Earthbound
Overview: A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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Four Sons
1940-06-14
Four Sons
Overview: Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932-05-01
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Overview: Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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A Dog of Flanders
1935-03-22
A Dog of Flanders
Overview: Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Jungle Woman
1944-06-01
Jungle Woman
Overview: Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Fountain
1934-08-22
The Fountain
Overview: Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-22
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One More Spring
1935-02-15
One More Spring
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
The Devil Is a Sissy
Overview: A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Oil for the Lamps of China
1935-06-08
Oil for the Lamps of China
Overview: An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-08
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Stolen Harmony
1935-04-20
Stolen Harmony
Overview: Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Henry Aldrich for President
1941-10-17
Henry Aldrich for President
Overview: Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Never Say Die
1939-03-08
Never Say Die
Overview: Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Nazi Agent
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
Everything Happens at Night
Overview: Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Outcast
1937-02-05
Outcast
Overview: A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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No Greater Glory
1934-03-30
No Greater Glory
Overview: A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Man of Two Worlds
1934-01-13
Man of Two Worlds
Overview: A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Sins of Man
Overview: Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Swiss Family Robinson
1940-02-08
Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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3 Is a Family
1944-11-23
3 Is a Family
Overview: Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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Murder with Pictures
1936-09-24
Murder with Pictures
Overview: Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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When Love Is Young
1937-03-26
When Love Is Young
Overview: In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Forged Passport
1939-04-23
Forged Passport
Overview: Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-23
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The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
The Princess Comes Across
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Music in the Air
1934-12-13
Music in the Air
Overview: A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-13
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All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
All This, and Heaven Too
Overview: When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Rhythm on the River
1940-08-28
Rhythm on the River
Overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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The Man from Yesterday
1932-06-24
The Man from Yesterday
Overview: A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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Leather Burners
1943-05-28
Leather Burners
Overview: As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Heidi
1937-10-15
Heidi
Overview: Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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The Belle of New York
1919-03-26
The Belle of New York
Overview: An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his daughter Violet goes to New York and joins the "Follies," where she is advertised as "The Belle of New York." The rich man's son is infatuated with Violet, and is introduced to her anonymously as Jack. When Violet learns of Jack's identity, she casts him off. He takes to drinking and she joins the Salvation Army. Jack is attacked in an underworld saloon just as Violet enters in Salvation Army attire. She nurses him at his home. When Jack's father discovers with whom Jack is in love, he begs forgiveness for the wrong he did Violet's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-26
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Secrets of the French Police
1932-12-02
Secrets of the French Police
Overview: A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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Bureau of Missing Persons
1933-09-16
Bureau of Missing Persons
Overview: Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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Silver Dollar
1932-12-22
Silver Dollar
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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It Could Happen to You
1937-06-28
It Could Happen to You
Overview: A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Strange Confession
1945-10-05
Strange Confession
Overview: A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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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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Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
Princess O'Rourke
Overview: A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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The Spectacle Maker
1934-09-20
The Spectacle Maker
Overview: A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-20
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Tovarich
1937-12-25
Tovarich
Overview: When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-25
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Romance in the Rain
1934-08-13
Romance in the Rain
Overview: The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-13
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Age of Indiscretion
1935-05-10
Age of Indiscretion
Overview: A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-10
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Bomber's Moon
1943-08-05
Bomber's Moon
Overview: An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-05
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No Ransom
1934-10-07
No Ransom
Overview: In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-07
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Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Tales of Manhattan
Overview: Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933-05-04
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Overview: When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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Mad About Music
1938-02-27
Mad About Music
Overview: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-27
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Ski Patrol
1940-05-09
Ski Patrol
Overview: In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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Murder on a Bridle Path
1936-04-17
Murder on a Bridle Path
Overview: When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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