Paul Newlan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plattsmouth, Nebraska, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 23, 1973
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The Lonely Man
Overview: Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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Rancho Notorious
Overview: A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-06
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The Captive City
Overview: A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-26
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Dragnet
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Mary Hogan, an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-16
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Arrangement
Overview: An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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Bells of San Fernando
Overview: In the New Spain era, a tyrant ruling the San Fernando Valley attempts to wrestle a blacksmith’s daughter from the arms of her Irish sailor fiancé.
Genres: Western Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Don Ricardo Returns
Overview: After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-05
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Pirates of Tripoli
Overview: A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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River of No Return
Overview: An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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The Tijuana Story
Overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Overview: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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The Americanization of Emily
Overview: American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-27
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Prisoners of the Casbah
Overview: A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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Man Of The People
Overview: An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Trooper Hook
Overview: When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-12
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Lost in Alaska
Overview: After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Overview: Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-27
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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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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Balalaika
Overview: A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Rangers of Fortune
Overview: An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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The Gay Vagabond
Overview: Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-12
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A Likely Story
Overview: A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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Monsieur Verdoux
Overview: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Overview: Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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The Great McGinty
Overview: Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-01
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Overview: Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-18
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The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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Sea Raiders
Overview: A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Down Rio Grande Way
Overview: Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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The Devil's Trail
Overview: Our heroes head to a wide-open town in search of a gang of desperadoes, headed by swarthy Noah Beery Jr. Along the way, Elliot and Ritter find time to pitch woo to leading lady Eileen O'Hearn. The Devil's Trail was based on a story with the more intriguing title "The Town in Hell's Backyard."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-14
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Something to Live For
Overview: Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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The Spoilers
Overview: When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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Say It in French
Overview: An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Badlands of Montana
Overview: Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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A Date with the Falcon
Overview: In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Du Barry Was a Lady
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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Crazy House
Overview: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Inspector General
Overview: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Rulers of the Sea
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Bright Leaf
Overview: Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-16
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Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Lost in a Harem
Overview: Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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We're No Angels
Overview: Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credit. They initially intend to take advantage of them but have a change of heart after they find the family is in financial troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-07
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Her Favorite Patient
Overview: A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Four Faces West
Overview: Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-03
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You and Me
Overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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The Slender Thread
Overview: Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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High Barbaree
Overview: After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-01
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The Last Train from Madrid
Overview: The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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