Ralph Morgan
Also Known As: Raphael Kuhner Wuppermann, Ральф Морган
Biography: Ralph Morgan (July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956) was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor, and the older brother of Frank Morgan (who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz, 1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Morgan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: July 04, 1883
Deathday: June 11, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Excuse the Pardon
Overview: A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Jack London
Overview: The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Mannequin
Overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-21
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I've Been Around
Overview: Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-05
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Trapped in the Sky
Overview: In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Unwelcome Stranger
Overview: Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Condemned to Live
Overview: After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Song of the Thin Man
Overview: Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Rasputin and the Empress
Overview: The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Little Men
Overview: The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Weird Woman
Overview: After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-01
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Barefoot Boy
Overview: A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-03
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Devil's Lottery
Overview: Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Overview: Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Star of Midnight
Overview: When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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The Kennel Murder Case
Overview: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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Hollywood and Vine
Overview: A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-25
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Sleep, My Love
Overview: A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-18
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The Impostor
Overview: The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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The Power and the Glory
Overview: A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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A Gentleman After Dark
Overview: A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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Hitler's Madman
Overview: In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Night Monster
Overview: Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-20
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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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Way Down South
Overview: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Wives Under Suspicion
Overview: A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Strange Interlude
Overview: After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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The Last Round-up
Overview: A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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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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Mr. District Attorney
Overview: An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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Enemy of Women
Overview: Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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The Last Gentleman
Overview: In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-27
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Man of Conquest
Overview: The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-15
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Muss 'em Up
Overview: Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-13
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Army Girl
Overview: A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-11
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Yellowstone
Overview: Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Speed
Overview: Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Fast and Loose
Overview: The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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The Son-Daughter
Overview: Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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The Monster and the Ape
Overview: A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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This Love of Ours
Overview: At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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Love Is a Headache
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Mother Carey's Chickens
Overview: A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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The Great Alaskan Mystery
Overview: The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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The Outer Gate
Overview: Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Crack-Up
Overview: Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-14
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Exclusive
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Little Miss Nobody
Overview: A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Adventure in Washington
Overview: A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-29
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Klondike Fury
Overview: In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Trocadero
Overview: A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-24
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Black Market Babies
Overview: Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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The Creeper
Overview: Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Disorderly Conduct
Overview: When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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The Mad Game
Overview: Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-27
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Soak the Old
Overview: Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-24
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Shanghai Madness
Overview: In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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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 Monster Maker
Overview: Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-15
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Calm Yourself
Overview: A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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I'm Still Alive
Overview: Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the stunts and still manages to get her.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Magnificent Obsession
Overview: A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Human Cargo
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
Overview: The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-22
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Walls of Gold
Overview: A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-21
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Madame X
Overview: Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-14
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Gold Fever
Overview: Magician-turned-actor John Calvert, previously the suave leading man of Film Classics' "Falcon" series, is a curious choice to star in the rough-and-tumble western Gold Fever. John Bonar (Calvert) and grizzled old prospector Nugget Jack (Ralph Morgan) strike it rich, whereupon they are besieged by Bill Johnson's (Gene Roth) outlaw gang. Heavily outnumbered, our heroes are forced to rely on brain rather than brawn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-15
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General Spanky
Overview: Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Their Big Moment
Overview: Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Cheaters at Play
Overview: Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Smuggled Cargo
Overview: When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-21
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Trick for Trick
Overview: Six months after the unsolved murder of a young woman who had been his assistant magician Azrah arranges a seance that will be attended by his former partner La Tour, as well by detectives and interested parties who may also be suspects. The seance is abruptly ended when la Tour is murdered and general confusion and much activity inside and outside Azrah’s stone fortress, a veritable castle of magic, ensues until everything is sorted out and the culprit is revealed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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Orient Express
Overview: Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-28
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Sword of the Avenger
Overview: Roberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives the escape, carrying with him a treasure map left by one of the others. He crosses paths with Ming Tang (Strong) and a group of Chinese smugglers, with whom he finds the treasure. The booty makes him extremely wealthy, and he changes his name to Don Diego Sebastian. He then goes back to the Philippines to seek his revenge.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-02
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Heart of the Rockies
Overview: Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-29
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The Traitor Within
Overview: In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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Dance Team
Overview: Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but eventually find enormous success. Their personal relationship, however, hits a few snags on the way to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-17
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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The Life of Emile Zola
Overview: A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Geronimo
Overview: The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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Doctor Bull
Overview: In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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Gang Busters
Overview: Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-31
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Forty Little Mothers
Overview: An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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Anthony Adverse
Overview: Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-26
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Honor Among Lovers
Overview: Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-28
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Out West with the Hardys
Overview: Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Hell in the Heavens
Overview: During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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After Tomorrow
Overview: In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-06
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The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
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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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Charlie Chan's Chance
Overview: Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-24
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She Was a Lady
Overview: Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-22
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