Paul Hurst
Also Known As: Paul Causey Hurst, Paul C. Hurst
Biography: Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect). In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide. Date of Death: 27 February 1953, Hollywood, California (suicide)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Traver, California, USA
Birthday: October 14, 1888
Deathday: February 27, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Overview: A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Gone with the Wind
Overview: The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Island of Lost Souls
Overview: An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Paradise Island
Overview: The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-15
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Angel and the Badman
Overview: Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
Genres: Western Romance Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-15
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Steppin' in Society
Overview: In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-09
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Roaring Road
Overview: A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over the other contestants, incidentally winning the girl of his heart.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Petticoat Politics
Overview: Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Trouble in Morocco
Overview: A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-09
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The Secret Six
Overview: Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach
Overview: A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-07
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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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The Railroad Raiders
Overview: A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Woman's Wit; 6. The Overland Disaster; 7. Mistaken Identity; 8. A Knotted Cord; 9. A Leap for Life; 10. A Watery Grave; 11. A Desperate Deed; 12. A Fight for a Franchise; 13. The Road Wrecker; 14. The Trap; 15. The Mystery of the Counterfeit Tickets.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Hazards of Helen
Overview: The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed lost.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-24
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The Girl Detective
Overview: A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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A Lass of the Lumberlands
Overview: 15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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Hi'ya, Chum
Overview: Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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The Westerner
Overview: Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-18
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Overview: Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-24
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Toughest Man in Arizona
Overview: Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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Million Dollar Pursuit
Overview: A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-30
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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The Big Stampede
Overview: Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Overview: The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-18
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-06
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Summer Storm
Overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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The Sphinx
Overview: A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Topper Takes a Trip
Overview: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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The Gay Deception
Overview: A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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Whispering Smith
Overview: Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right and never falters in his steps to see that justice is given where it is deserved and crime punished on the same basis. Originally shot as a serial to be called "Whispering Smith", distributor Mutual Films decided to release it as two separate films - this film, which was released first, and Medicine Bend (1916).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Angel's Holiday
Overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Overview: Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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The Quicksands
Overview: Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-10
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The Thirteenth Guest
Overview: Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-09
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Bad Company
Overview: A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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The Chief of Police
Overview: How a man, imprisoned for another's crime, finds justice at last.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-04
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In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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The Racketeer
Overview: A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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December 7th
Overview: "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Rimrock Jones
Overview: Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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Stingaree
Overview: Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, accidentally kills a man with whom he has had an altercation. Fleeing to Australia, Randolph becomes known as the bandit Stingaree and is aided in his Robin Hood like adventures by his friend Howie and his sweetheart Ethel.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-24
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The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Overview: The movie serial sequel to the popular original series featuring Stingaree. Both are now lost.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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Terror Aboard
Overview: An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Overview: While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Caught in the Draft
Overview: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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The Sun Shines Bright
Overview: With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-02
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The Red Signal
Overview: Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insane. Meantime, a furious storm arises, a track walker discovers a washout and wires a warning to Helen, who sets the danger signal for the Limited which is due in ten minutes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Overview: In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-21
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Sequoia
Overview: A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-16
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The Diamond Runners
Overview: Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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Judith of the Cumberlands
Overview: Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of the different clans try to end the feud, and wind up falling for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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Medicine Bend
Overview: Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Swellhead
Overview: A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Island in the Sky
Overview: A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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It Could Happen to You
Overview: In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-08
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Borrowed Wives
Overview: Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Overview: Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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That's My Line
Overview: The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners the attention of a fair senorita which does not set well with the chief of a gang of bandits, and Bartels is soon seeking the USA/Mexico borderline.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-13
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Second Honeymoon
Overview: Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Midnight Alibi
Overview: An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-12
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I'd Give My Life
Overview: The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-13
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The Cossacks
Overview: Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-23
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Calaboose
Overview: A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-29
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Sweepstakes
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
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Hot Curves
Overview: The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Shadow of Doubt
Overview: When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Secrets of a Nurse
Overview: This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Big Show-Off
Overview: A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Overview: Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Remember?
Overview: Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-19
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Bad Lands
Overview: A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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The Plainsman and the Lady
Overview: Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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The Legion of Missing Men
Overview: Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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Wake Up and Live
Overview: Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Girl Rush
Overview: During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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Virginia
Overview: Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-28
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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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Hold That Co-ed
Overview: An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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The Sky's the Limit
Overview: Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-13
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Something for the Boys
Overview: The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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The Runaway Bride
Overview: Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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My Lucky Star
Overview: George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-09
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Officer O'Brien
Overview: Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-15
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State's Attorney
Overview: Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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The Devil's Saddle
Overview: Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-10
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The Single Sin
Overview: A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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The California Mail
Overview: During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent Bob Scott is therefore instructed to clean out the bandit gangs that have been stopping the vital California gold shipments.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-07
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Men Are Such Fools
Overview: An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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The Red Raiders
Overview: Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the new reservation, he sends his men to trap Scott and his troop before they can deliver the information.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-27
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The Lawless Legion
Overview: Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Lucky Larkin
Overview: Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, and he refuses an offer of Martin Brierson to buy him out. Pete, Brierson's brother, in hiding because of his criminal record, burns the colonel's barn and injures his horses. Convinced of Brierson's responsibility for the terror tactics, "Lucky" Larkin plans to ride Tarzan, the colonel's pet colt. Brierson does his best to disqualify the horse, but Larkin tricks him and wins the race. Larkin captures Pete and forces him to confess. The Brierson brothers are brought to justice, and Larkin wins Emmy Lou, a homesteader's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Mountain Justice
Overview: In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. When he learns that it was Abner Harland, he fakes the killing of his friend Rusty, puts Abner in a coffin, and takes off. Lem Harland, seeing Rusty alive, realizes what happened and the chase is on.
Genres: Action Western Romance Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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The Cave Men's War
Overview: The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-03
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My Pal, the King
Overview: The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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She's No Lady
Overview: Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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The Lady Fights Back
Overview: Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
Genres: Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Tide of Empire
Overview: California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Shadow of the Law
Overview: John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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Josette
Overview: Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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Lightning Bryce
Overview: Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-14
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Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Overview: Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight and drops onto the roof of the car from above as it crosses underneath. A chase along the roofs of the speeding cars ensues.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-06
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Sailor's Holiday
Overview: Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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We Who Are About to Die
Overview: John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Blue Streak O'Neil
Overview: On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sheriff's posse. Having won the ranch for the heroine, he accepts from her a half interest in it, and also her love.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-15
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You Can't Have Everything
Overview: Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-02
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Overview: In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Genres: Action History Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-17
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A Very Honorable Guy
Overview: Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-18
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Cafe Society
Overview: A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Lilac Time
Overview: In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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The Secret Witness
Overview: A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Overview: A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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The Virginian
Overview: Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-05
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Tomorrow's Youth
Overview: A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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The Public Defender
Overview: A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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On Your Toes
Overview: A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-14
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Overview: New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Each Dawn I Die
Overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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Take the Stand
Overview: A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-07
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Dudes Are Pretty People
Overview: Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Prince of the Plains
Overview: Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and unable to pay. But the secret leader of the gang is James Taylor large stockholder of the bank.....
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-08
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Glove Slingers
Overview: A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Pioneer Marshal
Overview: Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote frontier town that serves as an outlaw hideaway. All previous lawmen have been disposed of by town boss Bruce Burnett (Damian O'Flynn), who demands a hefty price for his services.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-24
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Spring Parade
Overview: In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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The Valley of the Giants
Overview: Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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San Antone Ambush
Overview: Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-06
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The Phantom President
Overview: Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Among the Missing
Overview: Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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The Arizona Ranger
Overview: A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-14
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Tugboat Annie
Overview: Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business because of Terry's drunken mistakes. Alec wants to quit school to work on the tug full time, but Annie will not sacrifice her son's education. A grown Alec has followed in his mother's footsteps and becomes a mariner, but a more upscale one as the captain of a luxury liner. Alec returns home with his fiancée, Pat - the boss' daughter - with a grand plan to save Annie from the life that drunkard Terry has provided her. But ultimately, it's Annie and Terry that need to be Alec's savior, and by their move show him the meaning of true commitment.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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Oh, Yeah!
Overview: A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Hold 'Em Jail
Overview: Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Overview: A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-15
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The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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South of Rio
Overview: The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple of phony protection associations. Opposing them is Henry Waterman, publisher of the Rio Blanco Herald. He and his assistant, Andrew Jackson Weems, send for the help of the Territorial Rangers. One of the dispatched Rangers is Jeff Lanning who, unknown to him, has a brother as a member of the gang under an assumed name of Bob Mitchell. Jeff is so shocked at seeing his brother gun down Waterman that he is unable to act in time to prevent it. Unable to explain the cause of is inaction, he is suspended by the governor. Unable to persuade his brother to quit the gang, Jeff, with the aid of Weems and Waterman's daughter Carol, begins his quest to bring the outlaws to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-29
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The Vivisectionist
Overview: American horror movie from 1915.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-23
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Dakota
Overview: In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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Edison, the Man
Overview: In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Death Valley
Overview: A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-15
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You Can't Beat Love
Overview: The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will take on any bet or act on a whim. This becomes very apparent when he disrupts a food giveaway hosted by the mayor's daughter and as a result of this, he announces he's running for mayor--though he seems very much apolitical and has no interest in the job. Later, when he once again meets up with the mayor's daughter (Joan Fontaine) they supposedly fall in love--although there seemed to be little chemistry between them and it made very little sense for Fontaine to suddenly love a guy she so quickly hated at the beginning of the film. Plus, she really had plenty of reason to dislike the guy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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Madonna of the Desert
Overview: A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-23
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Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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North of Nome
Overview: John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Maker of Men
Overview: Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-03
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No Time to Marry
Overview: In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Son of God’s Country
Overview: Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the editor that received a letter that would expose him. But the editor earlier hid the letter in a chamber of his gun. Marshal Monte Hale arrives and eventually suspects Sanger and breaks into his house. After a gungight Sanger catches him and with one shot left shoots Monte. But he is using the editor's gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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The Parson of Panamint
Overview: As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-25
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The Last Express
Overview: A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Gun Smugglers
Overview: A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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This Is My Affair
Overview: President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-28
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In Old Sacramento
Overview: Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Midnight Manhunt
Overview: Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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California Firebrand
Overview: Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw and is hired by the town's corrupt mayor, Lance Dawson (Douglas Evans), as the new sheriff. But Monte secretly works to undermine Dawson's land-grabbing schemes. Monte defends the feisty owner (Lorna Gray) of a gold mine that Dawson covets, although she is suspicious of the cowpoke's loyalties and demands that he prove himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Smashing Through
Overview: Claim jumper Dave Marco and his boss Earl Foster, a crooked investment broker, hire chemist Ralph Brandon to falsify papers that a certain worthless mine is valuable then convince Ralph's mother to invest all her money in the mine. Ralph’s sister Holly meets Jack Mason, whose mine is actually valuable though not yet profitable, and they fall for each other. Once Mrs. Brandon finds out she has been duped, though forced into silence by the threat of having Ralph’s malfeasance exposed, and Marco attempts to jump Jack’s claim events come to a head until the happy conclusion.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-09
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Queen Christina
Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Overview: Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Torrid Zone
Overview: A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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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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Panama Flo
Overview: An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-19
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The Missourians
Overview: In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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The Old Frontier
Overview: Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-20
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This Woman Is Mine
Overview: Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Sundown Jim
Overview: US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Big Jim McLain
Overview: House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-30
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Kick In
Overview: Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Goin' Fishin'
Overview: The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Under Colorado Skies
Overview: Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He is about to leave to return to college when the bank is held up by two members of a notorious gang, headed by Marlowe, leaving Monte with the smoking gun of one of the bandits that killed the bank president. To avoid bringing disgrace on the family of his sweetheart, Julia Collins, by revealing that it was her brother Jeff, supposedly working in Denver, who induced him to open the back door of the bank to let the robbers in, Monte allows suspicion to rest on him until he can clear himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Vanishing Westerner
Overview: Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Law of the Golden West
Overview: Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Outcasts of the Trail
Overview: Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-08
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The Gay Desperado
Overview: Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-02
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Yellow Sky
Overview: In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
Genres: Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Barbary Coast Gent
Overview: Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Heart of Virginia
Overview: Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-25
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Super-Sleuth
Overview: A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Fifty Roads to Town
Overview: A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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Star Dust
Overview: When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-06
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Day of Reckoning
Overview: In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-26
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Murder in the Music Hall
Overview: An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Genres: Crime Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-10
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The Big Race
Overview: Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The Women in His Life
Overview: An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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Grand Slam
Overview: A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-22
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Outlaw's Paradise
Overview: Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Pardon My Stripes
Overview: Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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The Fighting Ranger
Overview: After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-15
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The Ghost That Walks Alone
Overview: Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Blackmailer
Overview: Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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South to Karanga
Overview: Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Buttons
Overview: Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-24
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The Manager of the B & A
Overview: Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of Griffith Ryder, labor leader and newspaper editor, they call a strike. The water main which supplies the railroad yards is cut, and a hot engine starts a fire. With water unavailable, the fire spreads to town, but through his superhuman efforts, Oakley gets it under control. His heroic moves win favor with the workers, and the strike is history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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The Third Alarm
Overview: The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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Quick Millions
Overview: In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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His First Command
Overview: A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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Riffraff
Overview: Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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The Ballad of Paducah Jail
Overview: Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Overview: Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-06
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Calm Yourself
Overview: A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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Hold Your Man
Overview: Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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