Knox Manning
Also Known As: Charles Knox Manning
Biography: Knox Manning (born Charles Knox Manning, January 17, 1904 – August 26, 1980) was an American radio and film announcer/narrator/commentator and film actor. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. He and Annette North Manning are interred at Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura, California. A former radio newscaster at KNX and announcer, Manning entered the motion picture field in 1939 as an offscreen narrator. His distinctive voice and phrasing were noticed by other studios, and he quickly became one of the movies' busiest voice artists. Very often he was the trademark voice of several concurrent series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 17, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 26, 1980
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This is Your Enemy
Overview: Footage from a Nazi propaganda film about the invasion of Poland is translated from German.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Wedding Yells
Overview: Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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A Yank on the Burma Road
Overview: A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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The Unwritten Code
Overview: A Nazi spy sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-26
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Cavalcade of Archery
Overview: This short tells the story of archery through the ages, mostly using Warner Brothers archive footage. Noted archer Howard Hill demonstrates his skills with various trick shots.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-12
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Batman
Overview: Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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The Kid from Brooklyn
Overview: Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-21
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Up in Arms
Overview: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Rocky Mountain Big Game
Overview: An expedition into the Rockies is chronicled.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-02
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Overview: The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Cody of the Pony Express
Overview: Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-06
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Congo Bill
Overview: Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Overview: Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Mandrake the Magician
Overview: Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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The Rear Gunner
Overview: Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-10
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Good Old Corn
Overview: Good Old Corn was released theatrically in 1943 and later as a small 8mm silent film for the home market. Uses clips from silent films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-30
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The Tanks Are Coming
Overview: Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-04
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A Ship Is Born
Overview: This Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Blackhawk
Overview: Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-24
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Tanks a Million
Overview: Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Deadwood Dick
Overview: Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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So You Think You're Allergic
Overview: Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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The Iron Claw
Overview: The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Green Archer
Overview: The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
Genres: Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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Polo with the Stars
Overview: A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training, and later uses him in a match where Jack Holt and Joe E. Brown are among the players. Edward G. Robinson and Jack Oakie are among the spectators who see Joe. E. Brown knock in the winning score.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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At the Stroke of Twelve
Overview: This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Sabotage
Overview: The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Kings of the Turf
Overview: Kings of the Turf is a 1941 American short documentary film about horse racing, directed by Del Frazier. This entry in The Sports Parade series shows us how Mortimer, a Standardbred horse, is trained for harness racing. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
Overview: Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-09
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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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The Man Killers
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-29
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The Birds and the Beasts Were There
Overview: Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the visitors are caged and the simian inhabitants roam freely; and finally the Parrot Jungle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-30
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The Lawton Story
Overview: Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the film up to feature length, a fictional plotline concerning the preparations for the pageant was hastily assembled, featuring such familiar Hollywood character players as Forrest Taylor, Willa Pearl Curtis and Maude Eburne.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-31
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Carnival of Rhythm
Overview: A colorful music and dance tribute to the peasants and workers of Brazil.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-23
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Soldiers in White
Overview: A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-07
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The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Harmon of Michigan
Overview: A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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Smart as a Fox
Overview: Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-27
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Spills for Thrills
Overview: Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.
Genres: Documentary Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-07
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Remember Pearl Harbor
Overview: A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
Overview: Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Are Animals Actors?
Overview: A short film that looks at various animal acts training and working in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-29
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Facing Your Danger
Overview: This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, nine men undertake a nineteen days trip in three specially built rowboats through the more than 200 rapids, some which run at 30 mph. Along the way, they see the remnants of previous expeditions. They also visit abandoned Pueblo Indian cave dwellings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-11
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The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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Wild Boar Hunt
Overview: This short film showcases the skills of Howard Hill, known as the "World's Greatest Archer".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-21
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Flight Characteristics of the A-20
Overview: Tom, a young Army Air Forces pilot, begins instruction with his captain on flying the A-20 attack aircraft. The captain demonstrates to Tom the pre-flight routine and checklists, then pilots the plane with Tom as his passenger. The captain demonstrates the flight parameters of the plane, the synchronization of the engines, stall recovery, and emergency procedures. Finally, the instructor shows Tom how to fly the plane on one engine and how to land in such a circumstance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-24
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Overview: Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Jammin' the Blues
Overview: In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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Story of a Dog
Overview: A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945 short documentary film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-27
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Hitler Lives
Overview: This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-29
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The Forest Commandos
Overview: This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-19
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Mysterious Island
Overview: It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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Peeks at Hollywood
Overview: Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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Destination Moon
Overview: A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Beyond the Line of Duty
Overview: This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entry into World War II.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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The Babe Ruth Story
Overview: The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-16
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Wild Weed
Overview: A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-20
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Meet John Doe
Overview: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
Overview: A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Overview: Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-05
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A Day at Hollywood Park
Overview: A little feature on horse racing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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Angels of Mercy
Overview: Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitment. Deanna Durbin performs a song dedicated to the nurses. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-10
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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
Overview: Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Son of the Guardsman
Overview: David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The outlaws of Sherwood Forest are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard, whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent. 15 episode adventure serial.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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Divide and Conquer
Overview: Dealing with the subject of rumor mongering, clips from Nazi films are employed to show how the ruthless invasions of neutral countries were planned in advance.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-29
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Red Light
Overview: Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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