Leonard Penn
Also Known As: Leonard Monson Penn, Leonard M. Penn
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 20, 1975
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Flame of Calcutta
Overview: A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-20
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Chick Carter, Detective
Overview: Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-11
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The Dead Don't Dream
Overview: Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has suddenly disappeared from the inn. Then Hoppy finds the uncle's body in the shaft of his nearby mine...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Hoppy's Holiday
Overview: Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new clothes and carrying his old ones in a suitcase, bumps into escaping bank robbers in the dark. His suitcase gets switched with that of the robbers and he is seen with the money. Hoppy must find the money that has mysteriously disappeared and also the robbers so that he can clear California who is now in jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Menace from Outer Space
Overview: A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger".
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Eyes of the Jungle
Overview: Ramar of the Jungle encounters a holy man who warns him of great danger. His friend Professor Howard is near death, cursed by the Mark of Shitan. A sacred golden tablet and a woman ready for sacrifice holds the key to Howard's survival. A feature film made from three episodes "Ramar of the Jungle" television series stitched together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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The Silver Chalice
Overview: A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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The Hat Box Mystery
Overview: Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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Beyond the Moon
Overview: This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brain washed.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-05
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The Saracen Blade
Overview: Based on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family friend in 15th century Italy. When the friend is killed by the same nasty baron who murdered Pietro's father as he led the peasants in revolt against the baron's tyranny, Pietro vows vengeance against the entire family. This will prove difficult, since he's been in love with the daughter of the nasty baron since he was a child and wants to marry her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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I Cover Big Town
Overview: One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-27
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No Holds Barred
Overview: One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-23
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Lonely Heart Bandits
Overview: Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-29
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Man-Proof
Overview: A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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King of the Congo
Overview: An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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Between Two Women
Overview: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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The Face Behind the Mask
Overview: This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
Genres: Documentary Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
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Savage Mutiny
Overview: Jungle Jim battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-03
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Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Judge Hardy's Children
Overview: Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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The Toy Wife
Overview: A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-10
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The Women Men Marry
Overview: A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Almost a Gentleman
Overview: Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-31
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Outlaw Brand
Overview: Jimmy and his pal Cannonball are hired by a rancher and horse breeder to capture Midnight, a wild stallion that has been interfering with local herds and has a reputation as a killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-24
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Murder Without Tears
Overview: A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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Young Dr. Kildare
Overview: A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Drum Beat
Overview: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Outlaw Women
Overview: A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-28
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A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Sirocco
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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Bachelor Mother
Overview: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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The Ship That Died
Overview: This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-19
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That Mothers Might Live
Overview: That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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South of Caliente
Overview: "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers stars with his real-life wife, Dale Evans, in this Western about a hardworking farmer who helps a struggling rancher by transporting her prize horse to Mexico. A fortuitous meeting with a fortune-teller (Charlita) -- who specializes in dire predictions -- sets the tone for their adventures. Burlesque comic Pinky Lee co-stars, playing himself.
Genres: Music Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Six Gun Mesa
Overview: To get the herd on Six Gun Mesa, Carson has the owner and hands killed. But one hand, Dave Emmett was in town instead of with the cattle. So Carter kills a man and frames Dave for the murder. Johnny Mack Brown arrives just in time to stop the lynching and sets out to find the real killer. Getting the Doctor who falsified the murder evidence drunk gets him the information he wants and this leads to the showdown with Carson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-30
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Range Land
Overview: Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-24
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Silver Raiders
Overview: Arizona Ranger Larry Grant is posing as an outlaw while hunting for an outlaw gang, secretly led by Lance Corbin, that is stealing silver in Mexico and smelting it into bars for sale in the United States.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-19
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Overview: A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-13
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Fort Algiers
Overview: In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-30
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Woman Against Woman
Overview: A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Killer at Large
Overview: Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-31
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Congo Bill
Overview: Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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Ladies in Distress
Overview: Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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The Lost Planet
Overview: Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Barbed Wire
Overview: A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-25
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Son of the Guardsman
Overview: David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The outlaws of Sherwood Forest are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard, whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent. 15 episode adventure serial.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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Law of the Badlands
Overview: The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate the printing press, one of Chito's girl friends arrives to expose their identity and they find themselves trapped by the entire gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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High School Hero
Overview: The football team can't score a win, the paper is on the outs, and the musical is booting performers. Can the plucky band of Whitney High students turn it all around?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Batman and Robin
Overview: This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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The Girl from San Lorenzo
Overview: Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-24
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Gunfire
Overview: Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like outlaw causes suspicion to fall back on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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In the Money
Overview: The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-16
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Partners of the Sunset
Overview: Jimmy and Cannonball stumble across a murder scheme, hatched by beautiful but deadly Janice Thompson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-05
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
Overview: Taggart and his men are breaking wanted outlaws out of jail and then killing them for the reward money. Marshal's Whip, Jim, and Texas have a plan to trap the gang. Whip poses as a wanted outlaw while Jim joins Taggart's gang and helps break him out. But there is trouble when gang member Mike, wanting a bigger cut, double-crosses everyone.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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Stagecoach Driver
Overview: Jim Bannon and his partner own a stagecoach line. With the coming of the telegraph and the end of the Pony Express, two men plot to take over and get the new mail contract. When Jim's partner is murdered and Jim's name is written in the sand beside the body, Jim is arrested. At his trial Whip brings surprising evidence that clears Jim and the two plotters are soon arrested.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-15
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Fangs of the Arctic
Overview: Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-18
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Clues to Adventure
Overview: This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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The Firefly
Overview: Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Women from Headquarters
Overview: Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed trained required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner, Harvey Gates cleanup up a skid-row Bar-girl scheme.And she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang ran by Richard Cott , and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Mysterious Island
Overview: It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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The Pilgrimage Play
Overview: Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Overview: Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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