Philip Morris
Also Known As: Francis Charles Morris, Phillip Morris
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1893
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 18, 1949
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Bombshell
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Return of the Terror
Overview: "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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Love on a Bet
Overview: An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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There Goes My Heart
Overview: An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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We Who Are About to Die
Overview: John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Next Time I Marry
Overview: Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Overview: Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Fugitives for a Night
Overview: A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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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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The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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It's a Wonderful World
Overview: Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Holiday Affair
Overview: Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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Blackmail
Overview: A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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The Flying Saucer
Overview: The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-04
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Whirlwind Raiders
Overview: It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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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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Code of the West
Overview: Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Overview: Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Parachute Jumper
Overview: An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Overview: Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Two O'Clock Courage
Overview: A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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The Lady from Shanghai
Overview: A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Out of the Past
Overview: Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Brigham Young
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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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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Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Flowing Gold
Overview: In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-24
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Overview: A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Overview: Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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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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Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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The Soldier and the Lady
Overview: In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Genres: Adventure History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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Super-Sleuth
Overview: A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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I Wake Up Screaming
Overview: A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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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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The Falcon in San Francisco
Overview: While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Crash Donovan
Overview: A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Repeat Performance
Overview: On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-22
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Home Sweet Homicide
Overview: Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-02
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Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Railroaded!
Overview: A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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Joe Smith, American
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Overview: Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-01
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Crack-Up
Overview: Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Overview: Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Johnny Angel
Overview: George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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High Barbaree
Overview: After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-01
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