Richard Loo
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Biography: Richard Loo (October 1, 1903 – November 20, 1983) was an American film actor who was one of the most familiar Asian character actors in American films of the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1982. Chinese by ancestry and Hawaiian by birth, Loo spent his youth in Hawaii, then moved to California as a teenager. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and began a career in business. The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced Loo to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies and in 1931 made his first film. Like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of films. His stern features led him to be a favorite movie villain, and the outbreak of World War II gave him greater prominence in roles as vicious Japanese soldiers in such successful pictures as The Purple Heart (1944) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Loo was most often typecast as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during World War II. In the film The Purple Heart he plays a Japanese Imperial Army general who commits suicide because he cannot break down the American prisoners. According to his daughter, Beverly Jane Loo, he didn't mind being typecast as a villain in these movies as he felt very patriotic about playing those parts. In 1944 he appeared as a Chinese army lieutenant opposite Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom. He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles. In 1974 he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, opposite Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Loo was also a teacher of Shaolin monks in three episodes of the 1972–1975 hit TV series Kung Fu and made a further three appearances as a different character. His last acting appearance was in The Incredible Hulk TV series in 1981, but he continued to act in Toyota commercials into 1982. Loo died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 1983, age 80. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maui, Hawaii, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 01, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 20, 1983
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The Man with the Golden Gun
Overview: Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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The Sand Pebbles
Overview: Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-20
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Women in the Night
Overview: During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Hell and High Water
Overview: A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-06
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North of Shanghai
Overview: In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Overview: An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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The Clay Pigeon
Overview: Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-03
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The Purple Heart
Overview: This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-25
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Betrayal from the East
Overview: A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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Malaya
Overview: After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-27
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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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The Good Earth
Overview: China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-02
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The Steel Helmet
Overview: A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-24
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Overview: A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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Back to Bataan
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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I Was an American Spy
Overview: An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-14
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Battle Hymn
Overview: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Overview: Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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Target Hong Kong
Overview: Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-06
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The Quiet American
Overview: Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-08
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The Fatal Hour
Overview: When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
Overview: Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Chandler
Overview: A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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First Yank into Tokyo
Overview: A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-05
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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The Scavengers
Overview: A former smuggler finds his missing wife in Hong Kong. Marion has fallen in with a bad crowd and is involved with narcotics and stolen government bonds, requiring Stuart to extricate her from her woes.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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One More Train to Rob
Overview: Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Seven Were Saved
Overview: A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Overview: U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Flight for Freedom
Overview: A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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China
Overview: Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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A Girl Named Tamiko
Overview: A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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The Bamboo Prison
Overview: A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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West of Shanghai
Overview: American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Daughter of the Tong
Overview: A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Diamond Head
Overview: Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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Panama Patrol
Overview: A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
Genres: Mystery Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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Across the Pacific
Overview: Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Overview: A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Overview: A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-15
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
Overview: The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Overview: After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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State Department: File 649
Overview: Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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China Seas
Overview: Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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House of Bamboo
Overview: Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Web of Danger
Overview: Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Overview: A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Lady of the Tropics
Overview: Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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Now and Forever
Overview: Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-31
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5 Fingers
Overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Prison Ship
Overview: Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Tokyo Rose
Overview: Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-08
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Doomed to Die
Overview: Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-12
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Rogues' Regiment
Overview: A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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Secret of the Wastelands
Overview: Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Student Tour
Overview: A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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Barricade
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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China Sky
Overview: During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-16
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Destination Gobi
Overview: A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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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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The Cobra Strikes
Overview: A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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The Conqueror
Overview: Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure Romance History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Stowaway
Overview: Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
Genres: Music Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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Living It Up
Overview: Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-15
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Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Destroyer
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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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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Roaming Lady
Overview: Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
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Half Past Midnight
Overview: A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Road to Morocco
Overview: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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China's Little Devils
Overview: In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-27
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Overview: Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-07
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Mad Holiday
Overview: A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Hong Kong Affair
Overview: An American businessman travels to Hong Kong to find out why his tea plantation isn't making money. When he gets there he discovers that his business partner has been growing something on the plantation, but it isn't tea. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-11
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Soldier of Fortune
Overview: An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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Beyond Our Own
Overview: This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney. Bob Rogers is a thoughtful, contemplative doctor who decides to forsake his practice to do missionary work in war-torn China. When Peter's young son is tragically killed in an accident, he visits his brother and learns first-hand the importance of compassion and charity. In a world rocked by strife and pain, love can overcome and triumph.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-16
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China Venture
Overview: American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Island of Lost Men
Overview: A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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