Michael Mark
Also Known As: Michael Marks
Biography: Michael Mark (born Morris Schulman; 15 March 1886 – 3 February 1975) was a Russian-born American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1928 and 1969.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
Birthday: March 15, 1886
Deathday: February 03, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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One Night of Love
Overview: Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Frankenstein
Overview: Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Overview: Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Son of Frankenstein
Overview: One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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The Big Combo
Overview: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-13
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The Mummy's Hand
Overview: A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
Genres: Horror Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Mr. Celebrity
Overview: A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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The Wasp Woman
Overview: The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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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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The Great Flamarion
Overview: A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-13
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The House of the Seven Gables
Overview: In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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Jealousy
Overview: A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-23
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Return of the Fly
Overview: Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Thin Twins
Overview: Thin Twins is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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Devil's Cargo
Overview: John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Appointment with Murder
Overview: The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Search for Danger
Overview: The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Once a Thief
Overview: A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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The Night Is Young
Overview: Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-11
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Crime, Inc.
Overview: A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-15
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Funny Girl
Overview: The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-19
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Rock Around the Clock
Overview: A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of Alan Freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time?
Genres: Drama Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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The Guardsman
Overview: An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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The Dark Hour
Overview: A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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The Face Behind the Mask
Overview: This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
Genres: Documentary Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-19
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Attack of the Puppet People
Overview: A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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Ambassador Bill
Overview: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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Rumble on the Docks
Overview: A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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6 Hours to Live
Overview: A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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City of Fear
Overview: An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is threating the lives of everyone in the city.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Edge of Hell
Overview: In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend; he sells him for $20. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Paris in Spring
Overview: Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-27
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I Am Suzanne!
Overview: A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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City in Darkness
Overview: Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-15
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Woman Wanted
Overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Mutiny
Overview: Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
Genres: Adventure War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-05
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Roar of the Dragon
Overview: A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Lady of the Tropics
Overview: Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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Balalaika
Overview: A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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House of Frankenstein
Overview: Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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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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Casablanca
Overview: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Society Smugglers
Overview: The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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The House of the Seven Gables
Overview: In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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The Son of Monte Cristo
Overview: Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Comrade X
Overview: An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Overview: A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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Sons o' Guns
Overview: Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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The Trespasser
Overview: Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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That Girl from Paris
Overview: Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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Napoleon's Barber
Overview: Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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Clues to Adventure
Overview: This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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The Pretender
Overview: Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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Phantom from Space
Overview: After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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The Big Fisherman
Overview: Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-04
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Resurrection
Overview: Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-27
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Background to Danger
Overview: An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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City Girl
Overview: A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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The Exile
Overview: In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-17
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Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Overview: Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Overview: In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Road to Morocco
Overview: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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Back to Bataan
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Overview: After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
Overview: When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Overview: Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Merry Widow
Overview: Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Yankee Fakir
Overview: A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-01
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