Ray Cooke
Also Known As: Victor Ray Cooke
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: April 05, 1905
Deathday: July 10, 1963
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Cameraman
Overview: A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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Lady Killer
Overview: An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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Taxi!
Overview: Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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Now I'll Tell
Overview: A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Love on a Bet
Overview: An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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The Loud Mouth
Overview: Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Overview: Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Jimmy's New Yacht
Overview: A young lady is wooed by two men
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-03
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Torchy
Overview: Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-04
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Overview: Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Overview: Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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Torchy's Two Toots
Overview: When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-06
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Overview: When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Torchy's Night Cap
Overview: Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Overview: Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-22
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Torchy's Busy Day
Overview: Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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Torchy Rolls His Own
Overview: In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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Trying Out Torchy
Overview: The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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Torchy's Loud Spooker
Overview: When the story begins, you learn that Torchy's boss has a problem with his blood pressure and the doctor recommends he take a rest. So, he plans on taking some of his staff with him to a mansion in Florida. However, one of his clients offers the use of his place and the boss accepts. Torchy doesn't like this, as the place is the old Link Estate...the same place where Mr. Link was murdered years ago!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-25
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Torchy Turns Turtle
Overview: One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-23
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's secretly in love with him, save his neck?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-09
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King of the Newsboys
Overview: A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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The Freshman's Goat
Overview: The freshman and sophomore classes of Barton College get into a brawl over possession of a goat, then decide to settle the dispute with an auto race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-07
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Sweethearts on Parade
Overview: Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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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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Sailor's Holiday
Overview: Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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The Sophomore
Overview: Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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An All American Toothache
Overview: Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-25
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Jazz Heaven
Overview: A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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By Your Leave
Overview: A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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True to the Navy
Overview: Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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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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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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Daughters Courageous
Overview: Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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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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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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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Overview: Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
Genres: Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-05
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Submarine Patrol
Overview: A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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The Saint Takes Over
Overview: The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Overview: Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Overview: Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Wolf of New York
Overview: A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-23
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Captain Swagger
Overview: Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Doubting Thomas
Overview: A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-10
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Walking Back
Overview: Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-21
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The Unholy Three
Overview: A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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Flying Down to Rio
Overview: A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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The Man with Two Faces
Overview: Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-04
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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Blonde Crazy
Overview: Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-16
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I'm No Angel
Overview: The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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The Broadway Melody
Overview: The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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Men in White
Overview: A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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High School
Overview: A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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West Point Widow
Overview: In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Jealousy
Overview: Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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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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The Midnight Patrol
Overview: A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-10
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