Henry Victor
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He died at 52 of a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California's at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Victor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 02, 1892
Deathday: March 15, 1945
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Gender: Male
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To Be or Not to Be
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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King of the Zombies
Overview: During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-14
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Topsy and Eva
Overview: Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-26
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Overview: A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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The White Monkey
Overview: Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-07
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Underground Agent
Overview: In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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The Mummy
Overview: An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Overview: Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-13
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She
Overview: An explorer is the reincarnated lover of a 2000-year-old queen. First adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's novel, unfortunately lost.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-01
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L'Argent
Overview: Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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The White Shadow
Overview: The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2012.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-05
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Tiger Bay
Overview: Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Luxury Liner
Overview: This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Overview: A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Braveheart
Overview: Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Mystery Sea Raider
Overview: June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Suicide Fleet
Overview: Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-20
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Desperate Journey
Overview: During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-26
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Old Wives' Tale
Overview: A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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John Heriot's Wife
Overview: A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-14
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The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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One Heavenly Night
Overview: A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-25
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The Luck of the Navy
Overview: A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-22
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Crossed Signals
Overview: A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-28
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The Fourth Commandment
Overview: Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Overview: FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Overview: British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Espionage Agent
Overview: When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-30
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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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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Fame
Overview: Comedy film...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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The Guns of Loos
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-28
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Overview: A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-03
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Charter Pilot
Overview: US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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As God Made Her
Overview: A Lady persuades her son's lowly wife to desert him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-13
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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
Overview: A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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I Spy
Overview: Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-26
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Seven Sinners
Overview: Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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The Mortal Storm
Overview: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-20
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Escape
Overview: An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Our Fighting Navy
Overview: Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the Marines and the Customs" and Lieutenant Enricquo, the gunnery officer of the small republic's one battleship, have taken over the battleship, and the town. Most of the British citizens have taken refuge at the Consulate or have been evacuated to the small cruiser in Bianco's port, the "H. M. S. Audacious." But there are two major issues; the Consul's daughter, Pamela, and Canadian Lieutenant Bill Armstrong have been kidnapped by the rebels and now held hostage on the battleship "El Mirante," and El Presidente was visiting the consulate when the war broke out and is now under the protective custody of the British Empire.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-25
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Bentley's Conscience
Overview: A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-01
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A Bill of Divorcement
Overview: Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-01
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Slaves of Destiny
Overview: In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-31
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The Sins Ye Do
Overview: A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-30
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Henry, King of Navarre
Overview: In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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His Grace Gives Notice
Overview: A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-01
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The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Overview: A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Diana of the Crossways
Overview: A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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A Romance of Old Baghdad
Overview: In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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Dangerously They Live
Overview: A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Overview: In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Underground
Overview: A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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Song of Soho
Overview: An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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After the Verdict
Overview: A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Hate Ship
Overview: A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Overview: Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The King's Romance
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-01
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Betrayal from the East
Overview: A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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A Royal Scandal
Overview: Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-26
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Zanzibar
Overview: A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Freaks
Overview: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Seas Beneath
Overview: In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-30
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-01
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The Royal Oak
Overview: King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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The Great Barrier
Overview: The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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The Way of Youth
Overview: The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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Tommy Atkins
Overview: A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-18
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Fine Feathers
Overview: A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-26
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The Crimson Circle
Overview: Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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