George Zucco
Also Known As: George Desylla Zucco
Biography: From Wikipedia George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in 96 films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. In his horror films, he often played a suave villain or a mad doctor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: January 10, 1886
Deathday: May 27, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Lured
Overview: Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Midnight Manhunt
Overview: Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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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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Scared to Death
Overview: A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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The Roof
Overview: Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Overview: While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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A Woman's Face
Overview: A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Voodoo Man
Overview: A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-21
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Dead Men Walk
Overview: When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-12
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Fog Island
Overview: Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-15
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The Mummy's Tomb
Overview: A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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The Mummy's Ghost
Overview: An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Flying Serpent
Overview: A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Overview: A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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Return of the Ape Man
Overview: The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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The Black Swan
Overview: When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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The Barkleys of Broadway
Overview: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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After the Thin Man
Overview: Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Rosalie
Overview: West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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New Moon
Overview: A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Overview: In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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Moss Rose
Overview: When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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Madame Bovary
Overview: A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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Saratoga
Overview: A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Where There's Life
Overview: In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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Dr. Renault's Secret
Overview: A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
Genres: Horror Mystery Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-19
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Overview: The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-18
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Overview: A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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The Mad Ghoul
Overview: A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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Shadows in the Night
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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The Seventh Cross
Overview: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-24
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Overview: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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The Black Raven
Overview: One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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My Favorite Blonde
Overview: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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The Monster and the Girl
Overview: After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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The Mad Monster
Overview: A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Captain Fury
Overview: An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Half Way to Shanghai
Overview: A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Sudan
Overview: A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-18
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Holy Matrimony
Overview: An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-24
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Secret Service Investigator
Overview: Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-31
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Having Wonderful Crime
Overview: Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Harbor of Missing Men
Overview: A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-26
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The Magnificent Fraud
Overview: A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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The Imperfect Lady
Overview: A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-29
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Desire Me
Overview: A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-31
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London by Night
Overview: A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
Overview: Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Daily Dispatch editor Mac sends them on assignment accompanying his niece Kate as she tries to find Rick Banning, her fiancée, an archeologist who disappeared while working in Egypt. A letter from Rick directs them to Lord Darby in England. The trail takes them from London to Scotland and finally to Egypt where they discover more than they bargained for as they search for the lost city of Lemuria.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-10
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Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Fast Company
Overview: Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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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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Let's Dance
Overview: Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-29
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Topper Returns
Overview: Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Here I Am a Stranger
Overview: The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Souls at Sea
Overview: Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Suez
Overview: Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Autumn Crocus
Overview: A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-01
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The First Legion
Overview: A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Vacation from Love
Overview: A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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The Horror of It All
Overview: A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Hold That Blonde!
Overview: Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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Madame X
Overview: An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Captain from Castile
Overview: Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Abdul the Damned
Overview: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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The Cat and the Canary
Overview: Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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The Man from Toronto
Overview: According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Lady Is Willing
Overview: In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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The Midshipmaid
Overview: Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
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The Good Companions
Overview: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Overview: An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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Road House
Overview: Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Genres: Crime Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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The Pirate
Overview: A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-11
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Flame Of Stamboul
Overview: An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice".
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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Never a Dull Moment
Overview: Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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International Lady
Overview: Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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Confidential Agent
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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David and Bathsheba
Overview: King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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What’s in a Name?
Overview: “Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-06
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It's a Bet
Overview: A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Common Round
Overview: "The Common Touch" tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils who are working as missionaries in Africa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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What Happened Then?
Overview: Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
Genres: Romance Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-24
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Dreyfus
Overview: In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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The Bride Wore Red
Overview: A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Overview: Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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The Firefly
Overview: Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
Genres: History Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Something Always Happens
Overview: Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Doom of Dracula
Overview: An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Secret Garden
Overview: When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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There Goes the Bride
Overview: A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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