Otto Hoffman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 23, 1944
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Strangers of the Night
Overview: A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-10
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The Family Skeleton
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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Satan in Sables
Overview: A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-14
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
Overview: A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Pardon My Nerve!
Overview: A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He didn't do it, but he has to find who the real killer is and clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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The Fourflusher
Overview: Young and ambitious but so far unsuccessful shoe clerk Andy Whittaker meets June Allen and tries to impress her by pretending to be an important businessman, she discovers his deception but before too long because of complications and luck good fortune finds its way to the pair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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Ridin' Wild
Overview: Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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The Sin Flood
Overview: Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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The Glorious Fool
Overview: Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Egg Crate Wallop
Overview: Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily train. Jim soon falls in love with Dave's lovely daughter Kitty, who, he worries, is interested in city slicker Perry Woods. When Woods steals $2,000 from the station safe, Jim, thinking that Dave took the money, confesses the crime and leaves for Chicago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-28
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This Woman
Overview: Facing poverty, Carol Drayton is prevented from suicide by Rose, a woman of the streets, who buys Carol a meal in a cafe of questionable reputation. The cafe is raided, and Carol is arrested and jailed on the false testimony of wealthy Gordon Duane. When she is released, Carol is again penniless until intoxicated Bobby Bleeker pays her to sing beneath the window of his sweetheart, Aline Sturdevant, where she is discovered by Stratini, a famous impresario. While studying with Stratini, Carol is blackmailed by the butler. Whitney Duane (Gordon's brother) falls in love with her but doubts her because of the gossip, and Carol incurs Aline's wrath by borrowing money from Bobby for Rose. Carol finally realizes her love for Stratini, who has remained loyal to her, and they are married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Rinty of the Desert
Overview: Rinty rescues heroine June and hero Pat from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made. The film's high point of tension finds the canine star rescuing Nye from a deep pit.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-20
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The Sheriff's Son
Overview: Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his father's friend from kidnappers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-30
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Hello Trouble
Overview: After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Haunted Gold
Overview: John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
Genres: Western Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-17
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A Dangerous Game
Overview: Gretchen Ann runs away from her foster parents but is sheltered first by Bill Kelley, a train brakeman, then by elderly oilman Pete Sebastian. After Gretchen keeps Sebastian from being duped by a medium, he sends her to a fashionable school, asking that she agree to marry him when she returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-17
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Greased Lightning
Overview: Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Smart Girl
Overview: Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-16
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The Bronze Bell
Overview: In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he is half-European himself, he can't bring himself to do it and flees to America, to live in obscurity. He finds, however, that he can't outrun his obligations
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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Painted Ponies
Overview: A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Trimmed
Overview: Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. County political boss Nebo Slayter persuades the community to nominate Dale for sheriff--thinking he can be easily manipulated--against John Millard, the incumbent, who refuses political compromises. Dale easily wins and pledges to give the citizens an honest deal. Millard's daughter, Alice, who is Dale's childhood sweetheart, learns of Slayter's dishonest schemes and sees his men murder a moonshiner for whom they had been furnishing protection.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-03
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Downstairs
Overview: In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-06
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Double Dealing
Overview: The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-21
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The Son of His Father
Overview: A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Millionaires
Overview: Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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All Over Town
Overview: Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-09
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Overview: A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Lucretia Lombard
Overview: Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-08
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Captain Applejack
Overview: An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Secrets of the Night
Overview: Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-12
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Career Woman
Overview: A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Desert Song
Overview: French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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One Stolen Night
Overview: Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is rescued from a swarm of beggars by an "Arab," then meets him again when she slips out at night in native dress. They fall in love, but Diantha is abducted by Sheik Amud, then returned safely home by the "Arab." The next morning Diantha discovers her fiancé and lover to be one and the same.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-29
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Daddies
Overview: A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-09
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A Man of Sentiment
Overview: A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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The Kaiser's Shadow
Overview: French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss Dalton played the girl that would protect it from German spies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Gas, Oil and Water
Overview: George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of smugglers on the Mexican border.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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Son of India
Overview: An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Fighting Shadows
Overview: Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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Abraham Lincoln
Overview: A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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The Busher
Overview: A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-17
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Mr. Barnes of New York
Overview: An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the killer. Mr. Barnes of New York, who happened to see the duel, finds the name Gerard Anstruther engraved on the pistols.....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-22
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The Boy Friend
Overview: A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-14
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The Avenger
Overview: Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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The Circle
Overview: Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must decide whether to give everything up to follow her heart and run off with Ted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-22
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Midnight Taxi
Overview: A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-04
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Living on Love
Overview: A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-12
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His Own Home Town
Overview: Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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The Mummy's Tomb
Overview: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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Side Show
Overview: A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-19
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Back Page
Overview: A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-07
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Kentucky Kernels
Overview: The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Eagle
Overview: Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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Red River Robin Hood
Overview: An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-01
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Girl Loves Boy
Overview: Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Overview: Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Overview: Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-04
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Overview: New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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Hideaway
Overview: A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-13
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Overview: Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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The Iron Master
Overview: The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Kid Millions
Overview: A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Confessions of a Queen
Overview: The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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The Valley of the Giants
Overview: Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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Fast Workers
Overview: Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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One Wild Night
Overview: Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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Show Them No Mercy!
Overview: A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Ball of Fire
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Moby Dick
Overview: Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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The Cheyenne Kid
Overview: Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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The Hottentot
Overview: The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play, The Hottentot, by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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My Grandfather's Clock
Overview: At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-27
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Sagebrush Law
Overview: Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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My Little Chickadee
Overview: While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Captain Hurricane
Overview: Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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More Pay - Less Work
Overview: Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-04
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This Land Is Mine
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Lucky Partners
Overview: Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Murder at the Vanities
Overview: Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Genres: Music Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Passing Through
Overview: Passing Through is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film, directed by William A. Seiter and written by Agnes Christine Johnston, and Joseph F. Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-14
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Cimarron
Overview: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-26
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Is Everybody Happy?
Overview: It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-23
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Behind the Door
Overview: Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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Big Calibre
Overview: Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Texas
Overview: Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Hardboiled Rose
Overview: A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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The Terror
Overview: Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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Madonna of Avenue A
Overview: A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-21
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Young as You Feel
Overview: Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-06
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Bobbed Hair
Overview: Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Human Wreckage
Overview: An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-17
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-10
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The Other Tomorrow
Overview: The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-09
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Death Takes a Holiday
Overview: After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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The Arizona Express
Overview: A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-23
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Hot Tip
Overview: An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-20
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The Power of the Press
Overview: The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-30
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Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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The New Teacher
Overview: Society girl Constance Bailey becomes a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, telling her fiancé, Bruce Van Griff, that she is sailing to Europe.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-20
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Homer Comes Home
Overview: Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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The Jailbird
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-10
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Sinners' Holiday
Overview: Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-11
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Bachelor Bait
Overview: After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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The Dixie Handicap
Overview: Tale of a man and his horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-29
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The White Terror
Overview: Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-18
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It's a Great Life
Overview: At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
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Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Union Depot
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Overview: The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Beloved
Overview: Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Beware of Widows
Overview: The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-23
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Acquitted
Overview: A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The County Fair
Overview: A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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The Mad Martindales
Overview: A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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The Devil Within
Overview: Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-20
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String Beans
Overview: Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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The Price She Paid
Overview: Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemuel Sidall (William Welsh), a wealthy man she loathes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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A Nine O'Clock Town
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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Boy Crazy
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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The Last Train from Madrid
Overview: The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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The Siren
Overview: A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino partner Peter Dane (Tom Moore) proves her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-20
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