Alan Davis
Also Known As: Allen Davies
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 30, 1913
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 11, 1943
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Wild Gold
Overview: A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Frisco Kid
Overview: After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-30
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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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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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King of the Underworld
Overview: Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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Wings of the Navy
Overview: Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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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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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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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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Charlie Chan in Panama
Overview: Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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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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Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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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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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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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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Swing, Sister, Swing
Overview: In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long, but they had fun anyway. Songs include: "Baltimore Bubble," "Gingham Gown," "Just a Bore," "Wasn't It You," "Kaneski Waltz" (Frank Skinner, Charles Henderson).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Penrod and Sam
Overview: A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-28
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Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Special Agent
Overview: A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
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Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Private Affairs
Overview: A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Overview: Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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The Big Guy
Overview: A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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