Edmund Breese
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Biography: From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 17, 1871
Age: 153 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 06, 1936
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Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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Finders Keepers
Overview: Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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Burning Daylight
Overview: Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-10
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Platinum Blonde
Overview: Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-31
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Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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Young Sinners
Overview: The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-17
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Paradise for Two
Overview: Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-23
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Return of the Terror
Overview: "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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The Perfect Crime
Overview: A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-04
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The Hurricane Express
Overview: The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-01
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Fighting With Kit Carson
Overview: In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-01
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Trying Out Torchy
Overview: The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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Broadway Bill
Overview: Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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An Honorable Cad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-02
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The Match King
Overview: Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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The Weakness of Strength
Overview: Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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Cross-Examination
Overview: Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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Millie
Overview: After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Chinatown After Dark
Overview: The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-15
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The Hatchet Man
Overview: When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Luck
Overview: A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Overview: Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-14
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Womanhandled
Overview: Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Reckoning
Overview: Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-15
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Morals for Women
Overview: A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-24
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The Wright Idea
Overview: A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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Damaged Hearts
Overview: Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with hostility, David now an adult, goes on a mission to seek vengeance on the adopting family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-21
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Overview: Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Overview: Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Overview: When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Torchy's Night Cap
Overview: Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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Torchy
Overview: Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-04
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Torchy's Two Toots
Overview: When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-06
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Torchy's Busy Day
Overview: Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the owner. This ends in the two of them playing a round of office gold to see whether the payment gets made in cash or stock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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Torchy's Kitty Coup
Overview: Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-22
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Torchy Rolls His Own
Overview: In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these short comedies, people believe the most peculiar things because it serves the unimportant plot. Cooke, of course, has never been on a horse so we have comedy sequences of him preparing for the big match, and his inevitable triumph which will offend those who hold polo so dear..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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Torchy Turns Turtle
Overview: One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund Breese's safe. Naturally he blames his office boy, Ray Cooke. Breese's daughter, Marion Shockley, tells Torchy the way back into her father's graces is to join his lodge, the Turtles.... but they have rough initiations. She drives him to what they imagine is the lodge hall, which is where the Arab gang is waiting, expecting a master spy, for whom they mistake Cooke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-23
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Alias Mary Smith
Overview: A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-14
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The Good Bad Girl
Overview: A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-20
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Young Bride
Overview: A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-08
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Drifting Souls
Overview: A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-07
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Laughing at Life
Overview: Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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Women Won't Tell
Overview: A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-16
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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The Sea Bat
Overview: The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
Genres: Action Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-05
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A Man of Sentiment
Overview: A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Defenders of the Law
Overview: A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-23
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The Painted Desert
Overview: Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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Above the Clouds
Overview: Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-13
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Overview: Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-26
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The Brown Derby
Overview: Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-04
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Treasure Island
Overview: In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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The Live Wire
Overview: The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Dancing Man
Overview: A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-24
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Top Speed
Overview: An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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Bright Lights
Overview: A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Tol'able David
Overview: Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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The Public Defender
Overview: A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Playboy of Paris
Overview: Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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Back to Liberty
Overview: Tom Devon, alias Reginald Briand, is the mastermind behind an organization of gentlemen thieves, including Jimmy Stevens and Rudolph Gambier. Jimmy falls in love with Tom's innocent daughter, Gloria, after he rescues her from an embarrassing scene in a restaurant. Tom disapproves of the romance and decides to dissolve the partnership. When an embittered Rudolph kills Tom he frames Jimmy, but Gloria is determined to clear him. Posing as a thief, she seeks the truth.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-11-15
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The Early Bird
Overview: An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Chiselers of Hollywood
Overview: Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-29
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Madame Butterfly
Overview: Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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In the Headlines
Overview: A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-31
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The Hottentot
Overview: The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play, The Hottentot, by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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The Sixth Commandment
Overview: John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields. However is playing around with a variety of different women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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Police Court
Overview: A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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International House
Overview: Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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Rough Waters
Overview: A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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Love Bound
Overview: A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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On Trial
Overview: A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Fancy Baggage
Overview: In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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Conquest
Overview: Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-22
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Come On, Marines!
Overview: "Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Hold Everything
Overview: A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Mata Hari
Overview: A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Overview: Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-01
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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Stepping Along
Overview: Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Girl Overboard
Overview: A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-28
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How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Overview: The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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As You Desire Me
Overview: Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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The Speed Spook
Overview: An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-30
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The Highbinders
Overview: Author David Marshall is sandbagged by holdup men and loses his memory. He finds his way to a bookshop run by his friend Ladd, who takes him in with the hope of helping him to regain his memory. David there meets Hope Masterson and falls in love with her. Bill Dorgan, a gangster in love with Hope, kidnaps her, and David comes to her rescue. David is hit again on the head, and this time he regains his memory. He still recognizes Hope, however, and they look forward to a long and happy life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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The Czar of Broadway
Overview: Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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The Haunted House
Overview: Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Genres: Horror Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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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 Golden West
Overview: Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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Bright Lights of Broadway
Overview: An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled by the producer's surface charm as well as those bright lights the title refers to, but eventually gets a dose of reality
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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The She-Wolf
Overview: An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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The Song of the Wage Slave
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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Female
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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Beloved
Overview: Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Three O'Clock in the Morning
Overview: Impulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von Strohm, a wealthy playboy, procures Elizabeth a job as a chorus dancer and secretly pays her salary. After he tries to seduce her, Elizabeth sees through his kindnesses and returns to her parents and Clayton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-01
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Restless Wives
Overview: 1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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On Your Guard
Overview: An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-31
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Chains of Evidence
Overview: Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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Someone Must Pay
Overview: Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and finds Regina in Bryant's arms, he orders him to leave. Bryant obliges, but he doesn't go away -- when the Taylors' daughter, Vivian, has a birthday, Bryant gives her a Shetland pony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-28
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The Lure of Heart's Desire
Overview: Socialite Ethel Wyndham turns down Jim Carew’s marriage proposal because of his working-class status causing him to go prospecting in the Yukon. He strikes it rich and begins a romance with Little Snowbird. Deciding to take one last look at life in the big city before settling down he heads to New York where he runs into Ethel. After telling her of his success he proposes again and while she’s tempted Ethel is tempted to accept him, she has involved her in an extortion operation unknowingly and Thomas Martin threatens to expose her if she marries Jim. Once again broken-hearted, Jim returns to Little Snowbird only to face heartache and a daughter he knew nothing about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-17
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The Spell of the Yukon
Overview: Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries. Jim goes to Alaska, where he adopts Bob Adams, the son of a murdered friend, and then makes a fortune in a gold strike. After eighteen years in the Yukon, Jim returns to his hometown with Bob, who falls in love with Helen and Albert's daughter Dorothy. Because he so hates Albert, however, Jim refuses to consent to a marriage between Bob and Dorothy until Helen tells him that Albert is not the young woman's father. In reality, Dorothy is Jim's own daughter, and when he learns this, Jim quickly changes his mind about the marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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The Master Crook
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Overview: Jacqueline Roland, the daughter of a backwoodsman, meets Henri Dubois during a visit to the city, but is unresponsive to his attentions. Henri later takes charge of the lumber camp where Jacqueline lives, and is closely followed by Li Chang, who is blackmailing him to keep secret a murder he committed years earlier. The new boss is determined to win Jacqueline for himself and convinces her lover, Raoul Radon, that she no longer cares for him. When Li Chang kidnaps Jacqueline, Henri comes to claim her and an oil lamp is upset during the ensuing struggle. As the fire spreads into the forest, Jacqueline escapes with Li Ching in pursuit. She and Raoul are reunited, while Henri perishes in the blaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-19
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Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Overview: The story is set in the final days of the Civil War and spies from the North and the South. And, in the midst of this, a Yankee falls in love with Southern belle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-09
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Sure-Fire Flint
Overview: Sure-Fire Flint, an energetic chap just returned from wartime military service, meets June De Lanni, the girl of his dreams, while working as a cabdriver and busboy. Her father gives Flint a job in his factory, but Dipley Poole, who hoped to marry June, becomes jealous of Flint's success and attempts to rob the company safe. June is trapped in the safe, but after a series of adventures, Flint arrives in time to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-25
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Those Who Judge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-15
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