Hale Hamilton
Also Known As: Hale Rice Hamilton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Birthday: February 27, 1883
Deathday: May 19, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Most Dangerous Game
Overview: When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Overview: A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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Employees' Entrance
Overview: Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Good Intentions
Overview: When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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Love Affair
Overview: Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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The Cuban Love Song
Overview: A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-18
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In His Brother's Place
Overview: Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural church, who is struggling to increase his ever-shrinking flock, Barrington tells him that his problem could be solved with the right type of salesmanship, and proceeds to map out a plan to do just that. However, a case of mistaken identity--and a scheme by two of the church's deacons to take over all of the church property--throws a wrench into his plans.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-14
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Those We Love
Overview: Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-11
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Dr. Monica
Overview: A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Murder at Midnight
Overview: Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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A Fool's Advice
Overview: An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-20
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Life Begins
Overview: A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Manhattan Tower
Overview: The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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The Great Lover
Overview: An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-18
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The Marines Are Coming
Overview: Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-19
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Two Against the World
Overview: A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-03
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Her Painted Hero
Overview: A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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Summer Bachelors
Overview: Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-18
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City Park
Overview: The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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The Wolf Dog
Overview: The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Common Clay
Overview: Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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One Man's Journey
Overview: Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-31
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Overview: Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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Parole Girl
Overview: A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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The Drums of Jeopardy
Overview: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Let 'em Have It
Overview: Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Overview: A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-10
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Dance, Fools, Dance
Overview: When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Twin Husbands
Overview: The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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Full of Pep
Overview: Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company, notices a pretty girl smiling at him in the station. Since her train soon leaves, all Jimmy learns about her is information on her luggage: her initials and destination, the Central American republic Santo Dinero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-26
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Paid
Overview: Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-30
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Strangers May Kiss
Overview: After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Overview: The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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The Girl from Missouri
Overview: Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-03
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Grand Old Girl
Overview: An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-15
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The Nitwits
Overview: A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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Curtain at Eight
Overview: An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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Rebound
Overview: A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-28
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After Office Hours
Overview: A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Strange People
Overview: All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-16
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The Quitter
Overview: When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Edison, the Man
Overview: In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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The Woman in Red
Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-16
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The Manicure Girl
Overview: A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-06
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I Live My Life
Overview: A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Overview: Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea. Dan soon learns that Tamea wants him and will do nothing without a kiss. But Tamea soon learns that she is different than Dan and Maisie and that makes her angry. Dan decides to go and live on the island with Tamea, but soon finds out that Paradise is not everything that he thought it was.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-16
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Sitting Pretty
Overview: Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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The Champ
Overview: A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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A Successful Calamity
Overview: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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Good Time Henry
Overview: Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Big Hearted Herbert
Overview: After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-06
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His Children's Children
Overview: Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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The Greater Glory
Overview: A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Tin Gods
Overview: Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Hold 'Em Yale
Overview: A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
Overview: An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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The Telephone Girl
Overview: Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Reform Girl
Overview: A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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Opportunity
Overview: When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady she disgueses herself in her brother's clothes which sets in motion a series of misunderstandings that almost wreck a marriage and land Mary in jail but all works out in the end!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Calm Yourself
Overview: A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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Black Beauty
Overview: Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Winning of Beatrice
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-20
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