John Carroll
Also Known As: Julian Lafaye
Biography: John Carroll (July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979) was an American actor and singer. He was born Julian Lafaye in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carroll performed in several small roles in films under his original name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in Hi, Gaucho! He appeared in several Western films in the 1930s, including the role of Zorro in Zorro Rides Again in 1937. He was the male lead in the Marx Brothers' Western comedy Go West in 1940. Probably his best known role was as Woody Jason in the 1942 movie Flying Tigers with John Wayne. He was also notable as a Cajun soldier, aptly nicknamed "Wolf", in the 1945 comedy A Letter for Evie. He interrupted his movie career during World War II and served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot in North Africa. He broke his back in a crash. He recovered and resumed his acting career. John Carroll was a well-established actor and his wife Lucille was a casting director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 1948, the famous movie actress Marilyn Monroe moved into their house. They helped support her emotionally and financially during her difficult transition period. Their support was essential in her success as an actress. Carroll worked steadily through the mid-1950s, but his career began to fade in the latter half of the decade. He did play a memorable role in the 1957 Budd Boetticher western Decision at Sundown as Tate Kimbrough, the evil nemesis of Randolph Scott's character. His last role was in Ride in a Pink Car in 1974.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Birthday: July 17, 1906
Deathday: April 24, 1979
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Gender: Male
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Go West
Overview: Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Flying Tigers
Overview: Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Her Favorite Patient
Overview: A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Susan and God
Overview: A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Only Angels Have Wings
Overview: A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-15
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Fiesta
Overview: When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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The Flame
Overview: George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-24
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Decision at Sundown
Overview: A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-10
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I, Jane Doe
Overview: While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-25
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Murder on a Bridle Path
Overview: When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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Pilot X
Overview: Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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I Am a Criminal
Overview: In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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Congo Maisie
Overview: Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Rio Rita
Overview: Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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The Youngest Profession
Overview: Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-12
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Sunny
Overview: Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Swingtime in the Movies
Overview: In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Angel in Exile
Overview: An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Surrender
Overview: Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Zorro Rides Again
Overview: The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden. Manuel Vega, aged co-owner, calls in the aid of his nephew James, great-grandson of the original Zorro. Alas, James seems more adept at golf than derring-do; but after he arrives, Zorro rides again! Can one black-clad man on horseback defeat a gang supplied with airplanes and machine guns?
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-20
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Plunderers of Painted Flats
Overview: To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-23
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The Fabulous Texan
Overview: A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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Belle Le Grand
Overview: Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-27
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A Letter for Evie
Overview: Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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New Moon
Overview: New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriving at the port of Krasnov, Petroff learns that Tanya is engaged to the old Governor Brusiloff. Petroff, disillusioned, crashes the ball to talk with Tanya. Found by Brusiloff, they invent a story about her lost bracelet. To reward him, and remove him, Brusiloff sends Petroff to the remote, and deadly, Fort Darvaz. Soon, the big battle against overwhelming odds will begin.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-23
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Hi, Gaucho!
Overview: The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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Wolf Call
Overview: A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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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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Hired Wife
Overview: Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Doughboys
Overview: Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-30
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Hit Parade of 1943
Overview: When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Musical Movieland
Overview: A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they appear to watch the filming of several productions in progress. Musical numbers from several previous Warner Bros. Technicolor shorts are edited into this short to create the illusion.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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Ride in a Pink Car
Overview: A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Lady Be Good
Overview: Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-18
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Overview: The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
Genres: Romance Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-15
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Pierre of the Plains
Overview: A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-29
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Soaring Stars
Overview: Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-25
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The Reluctant Bride
Overview: A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Devil-May-Care
Overview: A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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Phantom Raiders
Overview: In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Genres: Crime Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Overview: Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Marianne
Overview: At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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The Avengers
Overview: The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-10
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This Woman Is Mine
Overview: Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Wyoming
Overview: Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-28
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Old Los Angeles
Overview: Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the early statehood days of California, with Elliot keeping the peace and warding off plunderers and marauders. As always, Elliot is a "peaceable man"--until he beats the tar out of those who rile him. The problem with Elliot's more expensive Republic vehicles is that action invariably took a back seat to plot, romance, costumes and decor. Within a year of Old Los Angeles, Elliot started a more austere, less prettified and far superior western series.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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Hollywood Wonderland
Overview: Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-09
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Monte Carlo
Overview: A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Overview: This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-31
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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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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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Geraldine
Overview: Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-26
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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A Boy Called Nuthin’
Overview: A boy doesn’t find the life he expects out West when he leaves Chicago to find his uncle. The West has changed–it is no longer “cowboys and Indians.” He finds his uncle living in a shack, and in trying to be accepted and help out, the boy gets himself into all sorts of trouble, causing his uncle to refer to him as “good for nuthin’,” a nickname that sticks. Eventually the two see that they need each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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Hit Parade of 1951
Overview: While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-15
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