C. Henry Gordon
Also Known As: Henry Racke
Biography: C. Henry Gordon (born Henry Racke) was an American stage and screen actor. Sources conflict as to whether his June 17 birth date was in 1884 or in 1883. (1884 is most commonly accepted, though most of his obituaries state he died at age 57.)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 17, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 1940
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Scarface
Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-09
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Overview: Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Conquest
Overview: A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Overview: Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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City in Darkness
Overview: Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-15
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Trapped in the Sky
Overview: In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Trouble in Morocco
Overview: A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-09
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Penthouse
Overview: Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advice column because he missed the scoop on a major earthquake whilst out on the town. Determined to be fired from the column he starts to give crazy advice to the readers, but this only makes him even more popular.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-20
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Stamboul Quest
Overview: In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route, she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Overview: A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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The Gay Caballero
Overview: Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-14
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Kongo
Overview: The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
Genres: Drama Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Hell's Highway
Overview: A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Overview: A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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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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Turn Back the Clock
Overview: While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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You, the People
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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Women in Hiding
Overview: In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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Trapped by G-Men
Overview: Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Stand-In
Overview: An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Pursuit
Overview: "Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Clear All Wires!
Overview: Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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Professional Soldier
Overview: Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Made on Broadway
Overview: A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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Whistling in the Dark
Overview: A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Miss Pinkerton
Overview: Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Straight Is the Way
Overview: Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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Renegades
Overview: Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-26
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Overview: Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Stage Mother
Overview: Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Fugitive Lovers
Overview: In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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Lazy River
Overview: Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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The Big Game
Overview: A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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The Devil's in Love
Overview: The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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This Side of Heaven
Overview: A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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The Crooked Circle
Overview: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Storm at Daybreak
Overview: Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-14
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Roar of the Dragon
Overview: A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Chief
Overview: The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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The Black Doll
Overview: Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
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State's Attorney
Overview: Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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Hide-Out
Overview: Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Rasputin and the Empress
Overview: The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Love Letters of a Star
Overview: A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-08
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Thirteen Women
Overview: Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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Gabriel Over the White House
Overview: A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Women in His Life
Overview: An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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A Devil with Women
Overview: Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-17
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A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Washington Masquerade
Overview: An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-09
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Under Two Flags
Overview: Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Once a Sinner
Overview: As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still has a thing for her. Refusing she heads to Sparta, where she informs Tommy of her affair with the older man. Tommy tells her that he doesn't want to know the man's name or any details and Diana is happy to forget the past and move on. This decision comes to bite them a year later though, when Kent returns into the picture.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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The Black Camel
Overview: Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-21
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Tarzan's Revenge
Overview: Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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The Long Shot
Overview: A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Overview: In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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The Crusades
Overview: King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-21
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Heritage of the Desert
Overview: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Overview: Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-02
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Overview: Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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Adventure in Sahara
Overview: Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Man of Conquest
Overview: The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-15
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Sharpshooters
Overview: Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He gets his negatives out of the country and finds the young crown prince who is also in danger.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Kit Carson
Overview: Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Invisible Enemy
Overview: Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-03
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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Mata Hari
Overview: A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Death on the Diamond
Overview: Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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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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Hush Money
Overview: Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-05
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Honor of the Family
Overview: Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Hollywood Extra Girl
Overview: A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-22
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The Doomed Battalion
Overview: During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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The Great Hotel Murder
Overview: Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-27
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Passport to Alcatraz
Overview: George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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