Barton MacLane
Also Known As: Ernest Barton MacLane, Barton Mac Lane, Barton Maclane, Barton McLane, Бартон Маклейн
Biography: Barton MacLane graduated from Wesleyan University, where he displayed a notable aptitude for sports, in particular football and basketball. Not surprisingly, his physical prowess led to an early role in The Quarterback (1926) with Richard Dix. MacLane once commented that, as an actor, he needed to have the physical strength to tear the bad guys "from limb to limb", if necessary. Ironically, it was usually Barton himself who was destined to be at the end of a hiding (when not getting shot, instead), typically as snarling henchmen, outlaws and other assorted dubious or abrasive types throughout most of his 40-year acting career. In fact, Barton became so typecast that his name was for a time used proverbially, to generally describe a shouting, hard-nosed ruffian. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, MacLane joined a stock company in Brooklyn. In 1927 he had his first part on Broadway, a brief moment as an assistant district attorney, in the melodrama "The Trial of Mary Dugan". He then played a small featured role as a police officer in "Subway Express" (1929-30), a drama enacted in the interior of a subway car. In mid-1932 MacLane tried his hand at writing his own starring vehicle for the stage, entitled "Rendezvous". While the play closed after just 21 performances, it led to a contract with Warner Brothers. Barton had already appeared in bit roles for Paramount at their Astoria Studios, including The Marx Brothers' debut film The Cocoanuts (1929). He portrayed mobster Brad Collins in 'G' Men (1935) (with James Cagney), which set the tone for most of his future assignments. Brawny, with squinty eyes and a rasping voice, MacLane was the ideal surly tough guy, particularly suitable for westerns and the type of films noir Warner Brothers excelled at. He was often cast as cops, be they bent or honest. Some of his most representative performances include gangster Al Kruger in Bullets or Ballots (1936), which won him some of the best critical notices of his career; outlaw Jack Slade in Western Union (1941); crooked construction boss Pat McCormick, who gets beaten up by Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt over past-due wages in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); hard-nosed cops Detective Dundy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Lt. Reece in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). MacLane, on loan to Universal, also had a starring role in Prison Break (1938) as an innocent tuna fisherman who is framed for murder. He was prominent as a tough but sympathetic cop, foil to sleuthing girl reporter Glenda Farrell in the "Torchy Blaine" series of the mid- to late 1930s. In the 1960s Barton began to cultivate a good-guy image as Marshal Frank Caine in the NBC western series Outlaws (1960) as well as showing up in a small recurring role as Air Force Gen. Martin Peterson in I Dream of Jeannie (1965). Barton was married to the actress Charlotte Wynters, who appeared with him in six of his films. When not on the set, the couple spent time on their 2000-acre cattle ranch in Madera County, California. For his work in television, Barton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Birthday: December 25, 1902
Deathday: January 01, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Maltese Falcon
Overview: A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
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Foxfire
Overview: A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-13
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Overview: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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The Secret Seven
Overview: Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-15
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Politics
Overview: An ambitious campaign manager makes friends, influences people and welcomes his long-lost mother to Ellis Island.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Nabonga
Overview: When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-25
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The Rounders
Overview: Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-08
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Come Live with Me
Overview: Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Red Light
Overview: Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Walking Dead
Overview: Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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High Sierra
Overview: Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Bullets or Ballots
Overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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Cry of the Werewolf
Overview: A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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The Mummy's Ghost
Overview: An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Mysterious Intruder
Overview: A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-11
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Western Union
Overview: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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Backlash
Overview: Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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The Geisha Boy
Overview: Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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You and Me
Overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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The Glenn Miller Story
Overview: A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-04
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The Cocoanuts
Overview: During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-23
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Overview: Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-19
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Kansas Pacific
Overview: Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-22
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San Quentin
Overview: Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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Tarzan and the Huntress
Overview: A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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You Only Live Once
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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Secret Command
Overview: Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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The Man Is Armed
Overview: Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Man of Courage
Overview: A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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Tarzan and the Amazons
Overview: A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-29
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Times Square Playboy
Overview: A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-09
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San Quentin
Overview: An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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Lone Cowboy
Overview: Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scooter longs to return to his home in Chicago especially after discovering Dobe is an embittered ranch hand hellbent on seeking revenge on his duplicitous wife Eleanor and the man she ran off with. Dobe is dogged in his pursuit until he unwittingly puts Scooter’s life in danger. Seeing the error of his ways the pair ride off together in search of a new adventure.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Overview: The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-09
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Ceiling Zero
Overview: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-16
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Black Fury
Overview: A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-18
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Bugles in the Afternoon
Overview: Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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The Spanish Main
Overview: Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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Smart Blonde
Overview: Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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Highways by Night
Overview: A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Wetbacks
Overview: Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and him with no money. Two local men hear of Jim's plight, and offer him money to smuggle a batch of illegal aliens, called Wetbacks, into the U.S. He agrees but is blackmailed into continuing to run the smuggling operation. Afraid, Jim decides to make a run for it, but someone close to him reveals themselves as a US Immigration agent and asks him to assist them in shutting down the smugglers for good.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-04
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Drums in the Deep South
Overview: Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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Best of the Badmen
Overview: After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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The Walls of Jericho
Overview: In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Tillie and Gus
Overview: Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Gunfighters of Abilene
Overview: A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Song of Texas
Overview: A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
Overview: A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-05
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Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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The Thundering Herd
Overview: A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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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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Unknown Island
Overview: Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-15
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Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Men Without Souls
Overview: A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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To the Last Man
Overview: In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Man of the Forest
Overview: Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-24
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Hell's Crossroads
Overview: An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Angel in Exile
Overview: An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Girl on the Run
Overview: A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Naked Gun
Overview: Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Fly Away Baby
Overview: Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-19
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Overview: A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-12
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Overview: Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-13
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Arizona Bushwhackers
Overview: During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Buckskin
Overview: A Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-07
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Wine, Women and Horses
Overview: An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-11
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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The Half-Breed
Overview: An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-03
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Treasure of Ruby Hills
Overview: Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-23
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Relentless
Overview: A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-15
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Cheyenne
Overview: Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-06
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Noose for a Gunman
Overview: Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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Law of the Lawless
Overview: A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Jail Busters
Overview: Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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The Acid Test
Overview: George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard. The gag works, so Howard tries to use the same gag, recruiting Donald MacBride as his foil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-27
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Melody Ranch
Overview: His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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Rails Into Laramie
Overview: A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Naked In The Sun
Overview: In the 1830s a Florida slave trader captures the wife of Chief Osceola, setting off a war between the Seminoles and the U.S. Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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Go Into Your Dance
Overview: An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Jack Slade
Overview: A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-08
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Marine Raiders
Overview: A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
Genres: Romance War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-11
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Dr. Socrates
Overview: Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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Jungle Flight
Overview: Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to Texas and buy a commercial line.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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The Underdog
Overview: During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-17
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Born Reckless
Overview: Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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The Bandit Queen
Overview: Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Captain Scarface
Overview: A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-15
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Prison Break
Overview: Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-12
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The Last Round-up
Overview: Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Cleve is actually out-heroed by the film's nominal villain, outlaw leader Jack Kells (Monte Blue). It is Kells who brings about the story's happy ending, sacrificing his own life to ensure the blissful future of young lovers Cleve and Joan Randall (Barbara Fritchie).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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I Found Stella Parish
Overview: A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-16
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Let's Dance
Overview: Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-29
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Sierra Stranger
Overview: A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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His Woman
Overview: Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-20
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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 Dude Goes West
Overview: Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-30
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Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Town Tamer
Overview: A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Cow Country
Overview: A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-25
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Santa Fe Uprising
Overview: The Duchess, the aunt of Red Ryder, comes to town to protect her property. Crawford, a town big-shot behind an outlaw gang, tries to prevent her from reaching her destination, but the attack is thwarted by Red. The latter is made town marshal, and when he gets too close to the truth and is making it too hot for the Crawford faction, Crawford has his henchman Luke kidnap Red's Indian friend Little Beaver.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-15
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Wild Geese Calling
Overview: In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Overview: After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-13
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'G' Men
Overview: James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Gentle Annie
Overview: The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-05
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Draegerman Courage
Overview: After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
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Mutiny in the Big House
Overview: A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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Man of Iron
Overview: A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-21
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Jaguar
Overview: Oil explorers suspect a South American jungle boy of murder.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-19
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Gangs of Chicago
Overview: A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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Bengal Tiger
Overview: After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-29
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Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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The Kid Comes Back
Overview: A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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I Was a Convict
Overview: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Naughty-Cal
Overview: A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Let's Dance
Overview: Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Hit the Road
Overview: Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Breakdowns of 1936
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Hell's Outpost
Overview: A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-15
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Jubilee Trail
Overview: A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-15
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All of Me
Overview: A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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Crimes Square
Overview: When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-26
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The Gigolo Racket
Overview: As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-15
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Silver River
Overview: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-20
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The Silver Star
Overview: A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-07
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Last of the Desperados
Overview: After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-31
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Three Violent People
Overview: A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Frontier Gun
Overview: Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Thunderbirds
Overview: An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
Genres: War Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Breakdowns of 1937
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Breakdowns of 1939
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-31
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The Storm
Overview: A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Overview: Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-05
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Sea of Lost Ships
Overview: The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-24
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It's Showtime
Overview: A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Big Executive
Overview: Big Executive
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-19
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The Quarterback
Overview: Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-11
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Girl in the Woods
Overview: Lumbering tale of lumbermen challenging the ownership of valuable woodlands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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