Jack Wise
Also Known As: Jacob "Jack" Wise, Jacob Wise
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 02, 1888
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 07, 1954
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Earthworm Tractors
Overview: A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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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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Storm Warning
Overview: A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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Alice in Movieland
Overview: Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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San Quentin
Overview: Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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Smilin' Guns
Overview: After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he hightails it to San Francisco in order to learn how to become a gentleman. Returning to the ranch, the new but not necessarily improved Jack shreds his dandified image in order to save Helen from a lecherous but decidedly fake count and her mother from a jewel thief.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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House of Wax
Overview: A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-16
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Out of the Fog
Overview: A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-14
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Numbered Men
Overview: Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-07
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Five Star Final
Overview: Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-26
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Racket Busters
Overview: A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Code of the Secret Service
Overview: Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Hi, Nellie!
Overview: Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-20
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Broadway Hostess
Overview: Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Overview: A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-09
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Garden of the Moon
Overview: Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Melody for Two
Overview: A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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Here Comes Carter
Overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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My Bill
Overview: An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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Secret Service of the Air
Overview: Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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Smashing the Money Ring
Overview: T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-21
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The Big Noise
Overview: The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-22
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Guns of the Pecos
Overview: A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-28
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On Your Toes
Overview: A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-14
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He Couldn't Say No
Overview: A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
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They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Overview: While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Blackwell's Island
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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Women in the Wind
Overview: A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-15
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Overview: When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-17
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Hell's Kitchen
Overview: A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-08
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Indianapolis Speedway
Overview: A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-05
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Each Dawn I Die
Overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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King of Hockey
Overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Overview: Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-09
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While the Patient Slept
Overview: A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-09
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Midnight Court
Overview: After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Calling Philo Vance
Overview: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Smart Blonde
Overview: Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Overview: Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-13
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The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Overview: A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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King of the Lumberjacks
Overview: Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
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Murder in the Big House
Overview: When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-11
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Crime by Night
Overview: A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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I Sell Anything
Overview: Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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White Bondage
Overview: A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-05
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Freshman Love
Overview: A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-18
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Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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Saturday's Children
Overview: An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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No Time for Comedy
Overview: An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-14
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They Drive by Night
Overview: Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Knute Rockne All American
Overview: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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The Captain's Kid
Overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Road Gang
Overview: A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-28
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Life Begins
Overview: A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Satan Met a Lady
Overview: In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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Dinky
Overview: A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-11
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Vaudeville Days
Overview: A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-19
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Overview: A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-15
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The Screen Director
Overview: A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-12
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Alex in Wonderland
Overview: In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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Action in the North Atlantic
Overview: Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-12
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A Fugitive from Justice
Overview: Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Overview: When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-23
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Overview: A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-12
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Overview: Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Old Acquaintance
Overview: Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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The Doorway to Hell
Overview: A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
Overview: Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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Homicide
Overview: Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-02
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Overview: A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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Hollywood Canteen
Overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Overview: Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Private Detective
Overview: A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-09
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Highway West
Overview: A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Big City Blues
Overview: An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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Bullets or Ballots
Overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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Money and the Woman
Overview: An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-17
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The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Comet Over Broadway
Overview: Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Smarty
Overview: Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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It's a Great Feeling
Overview: A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-20
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Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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The Man I Love
Overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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