Gilbert Roland
Also Known As: Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, Luis Alonso, Гилберт Роланд
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Roland was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. When Pancho Villa took control of their town, Roland and his family fled to the United States. He lived in Texas until at age 14 he hopped on a freight train and went to Hollywood. He chose his screen name by combining the names of his favorite actors, John Gilbert and Ruth Roland. He was often cast in the stereotypical Latin lover role. Roland's first film contract was with Paramount. His first major role was in the collegiate comedy The Plastic Age (1925) together with Clara Bow, to whom he became engaged. In 1926, he played Armand in Camille opposite Norma Talmadge, with whom he was romantically involved, and they starred together in several productions. With the advent of sound films, Roland frequently appeared in Spanish language adaptations of American films, in romantic lead roles. Roland served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Beginning in the 1940s, critics began to take notice of his acting and he was praised for his supporting roles in John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He also appeared in a series of films in the mid-1940s as the popular character "The Cisco Kid". He played Hugo, the agnostic friend of the three shepherd children in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. In 1953, Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Mike Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. His last film appearance was in the 1982 western Barbarosa. Roland married actress Constance Bennett in 1941. They were married until 1946 and had two daughters. His second marriage, to Guillermina Cantú in 1954, lasted until his death 40 years later. Gilbert Roland died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994, aged 88.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: December 11, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 15, 1994
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Monsieur Le Fox
Overview: Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant (Robert Elliott) suspects Louis LeBey (Gilbert Roland). When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin (Barbara Leonard), Woolie-Woolie (Nina Quartero) becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First, Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-12
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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Any Gun Can Play
Overview: A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-26
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Caboblanco
Overview: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Overview: Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges. Mike suffers a fatal accident when he falls from the reef leaving Tony to carry on the business. But now he has a companion, Gwyneth Rhys.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Barbarosa
Overview: Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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The Furies
Overview: A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Cheyenne Autumn
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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Thunder Bay
Overview: Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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She Done Him Wrong
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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Captain Kidd
Overview: Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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My Six Convicts
Overview: A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Malaya
Overview: After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-27
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Bandido!
Overview: American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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The Wild and the Innocent
Overview: In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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Resurrection
Overview: Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her jury joins her on the trip to Siberia to expatiate his guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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The Men in Her Life
Overview: Alternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Overview: In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to squelch the Church; reports of religious experiences are cause for serious concern. Yet the children stand by their story, and the message of peace and hope the Lady brings. In the last vision, attended by thousands of people, the Lady proves her reality with a spectacular miracle that is seen by everyone present. Based on actual events at Fatima in the summer of 1917.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-20
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My Life with Caroline
Overview: A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Overview: Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-30
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Crisis
Overview: An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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We Were Strangers
Overview: China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-06
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The French Line
Overview: Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Islands in the Stream
Overview: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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The Passionate Plumber
Overview: Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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The Midnight Story
Overview: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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Johnny Hamlet
Overview: On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been killed but that Gertrude, his mother, has married her late husband's brother Claude. The latter is now the owner of the ranch and of all the properties of the deceased. Polonius, a ruthless bandit, is supposed to have killed Johnny's father. But couldn't it be Claude...?
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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Three Violent People
Overview: A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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The Deadly Tower
Overview: The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-18
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Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Overview: A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-07
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The Ruthless Four
Overview: This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gold from a remote Southwestern mine without falling prey to each other's bullets.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Camille
Overview: Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Overview: In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-19
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Juarez
Overview: The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Bullfighter and the Lady
Overview: An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-26
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Treasure of Tayopa
Overview: Modern day western about an expedition led by Winters to find a lost treasure in the Mexican badlands. Psycho Trapani turns the search into a bloodbath.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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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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The Dove
Overview: Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictator, played by Noah Beery.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Underwater!
Overview: Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-09
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The Other Love
Overview: Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-14
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The Reward
Overview: A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-15
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Apache War Smoke
Overview: An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Ten Tall Men
Overview: Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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The Mark of Zorro
Overview: The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
Genres: Western Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-29
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Sartana Does Not Forgive
Overview: Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-10-25
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Overview: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Overview: A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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The Big Circus
Overview: A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-05
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New York Nights
Overview: Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her husband after he spends the night with a floozie. Jill ends up as the gangster's moll, but she soon gets tired of the lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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The Racers
Overview: An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-04
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That Lady
Overview: In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-05
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The Diamond Queen
Overview: A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-28
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Isle of Missing Men
Overview: A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Gigolettes of Paris
Overview: Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-05
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Gambling on the High Seas
Overview: A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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Mystery Woman
Overview: A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-08
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A Parisian Romance
Overview: The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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The Torch
Overview: The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Overview: Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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Ladies Love Danger
Overview: A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor. He immediately suspects her of a murder that has just been committed in the apartment next to his. His prisoner for the night, she slips out at dawn, after two more murders have happened.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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Glory Alley
Overview: A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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After Tonight
Overview: When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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Isle Of Destiny
Overview: A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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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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King of the Bandits
Overview: Traveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been impersonating him and he is a wanted man. After retrieving some of the stolen loot, he is caught with it in his posession and put in the guard house. A friend whose life he recently saved beaks him out and Cisco heads out to find the impersonator and clear himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-07
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Samar
Overview: In 1870, in the Spanish Philippines, the commandant of an island penal colony, aided by an American doctor and local villagers, decides to relocate his coastal camp to a fertile valley inland but the arduous trek is fraught with dangers.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Beauty and the Bandit
Overview: In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman -- who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit's lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco's wishes and redistribute the wealth.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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The Gay Cavalier
Overview: The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission. His task is made easier once he learns that the "wealthy" suitor (Tristram Coffin) is also the man behind the gold robbers.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-30
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South of Monterey
Overview: The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Woods) in a small western town. Cisco's efforts against the plot cause the thieves to fall out, and Cisco is able to return the land to the rightful owners.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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Riding the California Trail
Overview: Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores. Learning that all her money will got to her uncle Don Jose when she marries Raole, Cisco suspects a plot and sets out to unravel it.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-11
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Robin Hood of Monterey
Overview: Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband, Don Carlos Belmonte. Eduardo offers Maria money if she will depart the hacienda premises, but she refuses and then accuses Eduardo of making love to her. The old Don doesn't take kindly to his son hitting on his step-mother and attacks him in a rage. The lights go out, the father is killed and Maria blames Eduardo, who escapes from the house, chased by Ricardo's men. The Cisco Kid and Pancho rescue Eduardo, who has been shot, and hide him while they investigate. Cisco discovers that bullets from Maria's gun, a handy little derringer, are the same type that killed Don Carlos. But the Alcalde arrests Cisco and Pancho, and Cisco is "supposedly" executed by a firing squad, but IS NOT shot and escapes by a trick. And now Maria and Ricardo are in real trouble with Cisco on the loose.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-06
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Guns of the Timberland
Overview: Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells led by Laura Riley are opposed to the felling of the trees, believing that losing them would cause mudslides during the heavy rains. Conflict between the town's residents and the loggers is inevitable.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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The Mark of the Renegade
Overview: An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-24
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Men of the North
Overview: Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-27
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The Dude Goes West
Overview: Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-30
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Angels with Broken Wings
Overview: Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-27
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The Spaniard
Overview: In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-04
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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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The Woman Disputed
Overview: An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Gateway
Overview: Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Midnight Taxi
Overview: A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-04
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Our Betters
Overview: Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocratic social circle. While Pearl pursues her own affair with gigolo Pepi D'Costa, her visiting sister, Bessie, arrives and is appalled when Pearl's arrangement is revealed.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-17
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Una viuda romántica
Overview: 1933 Spanish language film.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1933-10-14
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Pirates of Monterey
Overview: A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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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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Thunder Trail
Overview: A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-21
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The Pacific Connection
Overview: Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai to teach his son the Japanese Katana sword. To counter this, Ben studies under a blind Franciscan monk to obtain some advanced fighting secrets and develop his warrior senses. Additionally Ben must search for the legendary “Iron Reed”. A mystical stick so strong that grows in the lava of an active Volcano.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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The Woman in Room 13
Overview: Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he is accused of the crime.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-15
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Revolt of the Ghosts
Overview: When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter the decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-12
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The Campus Flirt
Overview: A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the train, Pat meets Denis Adams, a prominent athlete who is working his way through school as coach of the girls' track team; he introduces her to track star Charlie Paddock. Through efforts to keep her associates in place, Pat sinks deeper into the mire of antagonism; her only friends are Harriet Porter and Knute Knudson, the Swedish janitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-18
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The Christian Licorice Store
Overview: A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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The Bohemian Life
Overview: Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Incident on a Dark Street
Overview: A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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The Black Pearl
Overview: The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father agrees to let him experience this job. Ramon enters a forbidden cave, den of a giant skate nicknamed the Manta Diablo. He finds an oyster containing a black pearl of unusual size. His father donates it to the Virgin rather than sell it to dishonest traffickers. Shortly after, the flotilla of the village led by Salazar perishes at sea. Ramon must face the Manta Diablo with another fisherman to bring prosperity to the village ..
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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No Living Witness
Overview: An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-13
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Rose of the Golden West
Overview: Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Complicated Women
Overview: Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-06
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The Plastic Age
Overview: Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-15
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The Love Mart
Overview: Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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Elinor Norton
Overview: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Overview: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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Wings Up
Overview: Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-27
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Running Wild
Overview: A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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High Conquest
Overview: Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-21
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The Blonde Saint
Overview: Playboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and puritanical--society family, a girl so prim and proper that she's known as "The Blonde Saint". One night at a dinner party, she informs Maure that she is engaged to young VIncent Pamfort and is leaving for England the next day to marry him. Maure tricks her into meeting him onboard a boat going to Palermo, and before they get there she suddenly grabs her and jumps overboard. They wind up in a fishing village on a small island and before long find themselves caught up in a cholera epidemic and a local criminal gang.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-20
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The Lady Who Lied
Overview: During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former sweetheart, Dr. Alan Mortimer (Edward Earle).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-12
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