Eddy Chandler
Also Known As: Ed. Chandler, Eddie Chandler, Edward Chandler, Ed Chandler
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddy Chandler (March 12, 1894 – March 23, 1948) was an American actor who appeared, mostly uncredited, in more than 300 films. Three of these films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Gone with the Wind (1939). Chandler was born in the small Iowa city of Wilton Junction and died in Los Angeles, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA
Birthday: March 10, 1894
Deathday: March 23, 1948
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Gender: Male
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Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Flaming Fury
Overview: Ranger the dog stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-05
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Twentieth Century
Overview: A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Name the Woman
Overview: Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-25
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The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Something in the Wind
Overview: A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-21
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Night Editor
Overview: A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Overview: Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted son Tommy and his daughter Iris.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-14
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Show Boat
Overview: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Genres: Music Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-17
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Marriage in Transit
Overview: A gang of crooks led by Holden steals a government code, and Cyril Gordon, a Secret Service agent who bears a strong resemblance to the gang leader, is assigned to recover the stolen documents.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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Return of the Ape Man
Overview: The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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The Desert Trail
Overview: Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-21
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Overview: Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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Alias Mary Dow
Overview: A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Young Whirlwind
Overview: Red foils a plan to steal the airmail and in one especially exciting scene takes to the air armed only with a (very effective) slingshot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Pilot #5
Overview: A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Among the Living
Overview: A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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Borrowed Wives
Overview: Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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Flight
Overview: Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Wild Brian Kent
Overview: Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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King of the Turf
Overview: Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Sunny Skies
Overview: Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his steadfast supporter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-16
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Sensations of 1945
Overview: As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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The Best Man Wins
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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It Happened Tomorrow
Overview: A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-31
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You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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Car 99
Overview: A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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Topper Returns
Overview: Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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She Loved a Fireman
Overview: A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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State Trooper
Overview: Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Hurricane
Overview: Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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Fury of the Jungle
Overview: Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-23
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Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Alias French Gertie
Overview: A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Cross Country Cruise
Overview: A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-16
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Frisco Lil
Overview: Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Through Thick and Thin
Overview: An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There he meets and falls for a pretty young woman, whose father happens to be the man the agent suspects of heading the gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-29
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Matri-Phony
Overview: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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She Goes to War
Overview: A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-07
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Stage Struck
Overview: A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-12
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Flying Luck
Overview: A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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Woman Chases Man
Overview: A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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We Who Are About to Die
Overview: John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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Night Spot
Overview: A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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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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Going Places
Overview: A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Overview: A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-26
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Draegerman Courage
Overview: After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
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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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Dixiana
Overview: A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-22
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Overview: A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-08
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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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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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Public Wedding
Overview: The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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What! No Beer?
Overview: When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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That Man's Here Again
Overview: An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Gentlemen Are Born
Overview: A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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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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Pirates of the Skies
Overview: Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Buck Rogers
Overview: Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-10
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Mary Jane's Pa
Overview: Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Born to Love
Overview: A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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You Said a Mouthful
Overview: Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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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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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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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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Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Gone with the Wind
Overview: The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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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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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Overview: Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-13
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Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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Vanity Street
Overview: A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Blackmail
Overview: A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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There Goes My Heart
Overview: An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Horror Island
Overview: A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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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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Belle of the Yukon
Overview: Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-27
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Girl in Danger
Overview: Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-11
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Deadline at Dawn
Overview: A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-18
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It's a Great Life
Overview: Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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The Kid From Texas
Overview: A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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A Strange Adventure
Overview: A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-20
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Young Tom Edison
Overview: Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Murder Over New York
Overview: When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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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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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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Brother Rat and a Baby
Overview: Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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Kept Husbands
Overview: A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-22
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
Overview: Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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The Woman in the Window
Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-25
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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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Money to Loan
Overview: The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Call of the Jungle
Overview: A beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing sacred jewels.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-29
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The Runaway Bride
Overview: Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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Here Comes the Navy
Overview: A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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Eyes of the Underworld
Overview: Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Overview: Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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The Woman I Stole
Overview: A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-29
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Love Is News
Overview: When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Blonde and Groom
Overview: Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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Danger On Wheels
Overview: During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Flowing Gold
Overview: In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-24
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East of the River
Overview: Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Castle on the Hudson
Overview: A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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It All Came True
Overview: After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-06
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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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Behind the News
Overview: As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Girl in 313
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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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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Over the Goal
Overview: The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-16
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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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And Sudden Death
Overview: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Four Mothers
Overview: Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Overview: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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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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I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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I Was Framed
Overview: A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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The Singing Marine
Overview: Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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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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Welcome Danger
Overview: A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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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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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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Goldie Gets Along
Overview: A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-27
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Of Pups and Puzzles
Overview: This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help design aptitude tests for men applying for work.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Destroyer
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Dames
Overview: A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Informer
Overview: Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-09
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Murder in the Clouds
Overview: Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Flight from Destiny
Overview: After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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Special Agent
Overview: Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
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A Medal for Benny
Overview: Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-16
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Up the River
Overview: Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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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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Black Legion
Overview: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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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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House of Mystery
Overview: Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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A Criminal Is Born
Overview: An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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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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Invisible Stripes
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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In This Our Life
Overview: An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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The Mad Miss Manton
Overview: When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Kid Glove Killer
Overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Mysterious Intruder
Overview: A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-11
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Great Guy
Overview: A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Ghost and the Guest
Overview: Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks, searching for a fortune in diamonds. With the help of chauffeur Harmony Jones, the honeymooners attempt to outsmart the villains.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-19
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Swing Shift Maisie
Overview: Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-01
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The Jungle Captive
Overview: Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-25
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Sleepy Lagoon
Overview: Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-05
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American Madness
Overview: Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-15
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Black Angel
Overview: A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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The Law in Her Hands
Overview: A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-16
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Overview: A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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Platinum Blonde
Overview: Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-31
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Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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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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Bed of Roses
Overview: A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-29
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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