Lloyd Nolan
Also Known As: Lloyd Benedict Nolan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies. Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer of Irish descent. He attended Santa Clara Preparatory School and Stanford University, flunking out of Stanford as a freshman "because I never got around to attending any other class but dramatics." His parents disapproved of his choice of a career in acting, preferring that he join his father's shoe business, "one of the most solvent commercial firms in San Francisco." Nolan served in the United States Merchant Marine before joining the Dennis Players theatrical troupe in Cape Cod. He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, private detectives, and policemen in many film roles. Nolan also contributed solid and key character parts in numerous other films. One, The House on 92nd Street, was a startling revelation to audiences in 1945. It was a conflation of several true incidents of attempted sabotage by the Nazi regime (incidents which the FBI was able to thwart during World War II), and many scenes were filmed on location in New York City, unusual at the time. Nolan portrayed FBI Agent Briggs, and actual FBI employees interacted with Nolan throughout the film; he reprised the role in a subsequent 1948 movie, The Street with No Name. Nolan appeared three times on NBC's Laramie Western series, as sheriff Tully Hatch in the episode "The Star Trail (1959), as outlaw Matt Dyer in the episode "Deadly Is the Night" (1961)[5] and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode "War Hero" (1962).[6] On December 8, 1960, Nolan was cast as Dr. Elisha Pittman, in "Knife of Hate" on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. In the story line, Dr. Pittman removed one of the legs of Jack Hoyt (Robert Harland) after Hoyt sustained a gunshot wound from which infection was developing. Hoyt wants to marry Susan Pittman (Susan Oliver), but her father is at first unyielding on the matter. Nolan starred in The Outer Limits episode "Soldier" written by Harlan Ellison. He appeared in the NBC Western Bonanza as LaDuke, a New Orleans detective. In 1967, Strother Martin and he guest-starred in the episode "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" of NBC's The Road West series, starring Barry Sullivan. Also in 1967, Nolan was a guest star in the popular Western TV series The Virginian, in the episode "The Masquerade" and in the first episode of Mannix. A long-time cigar and pipe smoker, Nolan died of lung cancer on September 27, 1985, at his home in Brentwood, California; he was 83. He is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. CLR Description above from the Wikipedia article Lloyd Nolan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: August 11, 1902
Deathday: September 27, 1985
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Gender: Male
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Lady in the Lake
Overview: Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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Airport
Overview: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Overview: In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-28
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Overview: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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Blues in the Night
Overview: A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Island in the Sky
Overview: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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The House on 92nd Street
Overview: The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-10
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Dressed to Kill
Overview: A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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The Street with No Name
Overview: After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-14
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Circus World
Overview: Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-25
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A Hatful of Rain
Overview: A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-17
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Peyton Place
Overview: In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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Bataan
Overview: During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-03
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Guadalcanal Diary
Overview: Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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The House Across the Bay
Overview: Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Portrait in Black
Overview: A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-27
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Ice Station Zebra
Overview: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Green Grass of Wyoming
Overview: The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-03
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Time to Kill
Overview: Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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The Texas Rangers
Overview: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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We Joined the Navy
Overview: Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Mr. Dynamite
Overview: A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Big Brown Eyes
Overview: Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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Galyon
Overview: An oil tycoon hires Galyon, a jungle survival expert and soldier of fortune, to rescue his daughter and her husband from South American terrorists.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Susan Slade
Overview: A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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Fire!
Overview: The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-08
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The Girl Hunters
Overview: Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Two Smart People
Overview: Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-04
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It Happened in Flatbush
Overview: A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Abandon Ship
Overview: After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-12
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Easy Living
Overview: A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-08
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King of Alcatraz
Overview: A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Overview: A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-27
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Just Off Broadway
Overview: Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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Sleepers West
Overview: Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Overview: Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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The Double Man
Overview: In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-25
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The Last Hunt
Overview: A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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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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Pier 13
Overview: A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-08
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Overview: A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The Sun Comes Up
Overview: Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and his dog.
Genres: Action Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-12
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An American Dream
Overview: Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-31
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The Golden Fleecing
Overview: A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Toward the Unknown
Overview: Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Girl of the Night
Overview: Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-11
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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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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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You May Be Next!
Overview: Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Santiago
Overview: Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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Never Too Late
Overview: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-04
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The Man I Married
Overview: An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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My Boys Are Good Boys
Overview: Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Behind the News
Overview: As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Isn't It Shocking?
Overview: A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-02
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Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Ebb Tide
Overview: In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Exclusive
Overview: When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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Somewhere in the Night
Overview: George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-12
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She Couldn't Take It
Overview: The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-08
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Crazylegs
Overview: The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Bad Boy
Overview: A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Tip-Off Girls
Overview: A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Overview: When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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Stolen Harmony
Overview: Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Dangerous to Know
Overview: Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Manila Calling
Overview: During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Hunted Men
Overview: Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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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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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Flight to Holocaust
Overview: A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-26
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Apache Trail
Overview: The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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'G' Men
Overview: James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Prison Farm
Overview: Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Undercover Doctor
Overview: Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Devil's Squadron
Overview: In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Steel Against the Sky
Overview: Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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Prince Jack
Overview: A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Gangs of Chicago
Overview: A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-18
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15 Maiden Lane
Overview: Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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One Way Ticket
Overview: A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-25
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Counterfeit
Overview: A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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King of Gamblers
Overview: Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Ambush
Overview: Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-20
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Buy Me That Town
Overview: A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Internes Can't Take Money
Overview: Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Captain Eddie
Overview: WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-18
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Attack: The Battle for New Britain
Overview: War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943. - Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-20
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St. Louis Blues
Overview: A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue. But a competing carnival owner hatches a scheme to put an end to the show before it begins.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-03
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Don't Be a Sucker!
Overview: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-04
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Wild Harvest
Overview: Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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Sergeant Ryker
Overview: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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We're in the Movies, Now!
Overview: Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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War Comes to America
Overview: The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-14
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Every Day's a Holiday
Overview: When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smooth the path for the reform mayoral candidate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-18
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The November Plan
Overview: A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Valentine
Overview: A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
Overview: Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of China and shifting opinion as the United States moves from isolationism to supporting the war. Highlights include Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's moving address to Congress, Edward R. Murrow's reports from London during the Blitz and Charles Lindbergh expressing his opposition to America entering the war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Abduction of Saint Anne
Overview: A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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Lady of Secrets
Overview: Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Wings of Fire
Overview: A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-14
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The Sky's the Limit
Overview: A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-19
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