George E. Stone
Also Known As: Gerschon Lichtenstein, George Stone, Georgie Stone
Biography: George E. Stone (born Gerschon Lichtenstein; May 18, 1903 – May 26, 1967) was a Polish-born American character actor in movies, radio, and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article George E. Stone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
Birthday: May 18, 1903
Deathday: May 26, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Some Like It Hot
Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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42nd Street
Overview: A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-11
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Guys and Dolls
Overview: Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Cactus Caballeros
Overview: Harry and Joey are reluctantly out to capture "Black Pedro" the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Suspense
Overview: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Overview: Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Little Caesar
Overview: A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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A Slight Case of Murder
Overview: Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-26
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Bullets or Ballots
Overview: After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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The Face Behind the Mask
Overview: A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-16
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Penthouse
Overview: Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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The Robe
Overview: Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Don't Be a Sucker!
Overview: Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-04
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Five Star Final
Overview: Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-26
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The Front Page
Overview: Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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The Vampire Bat
Overview: A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Viva Villa!
Overview: In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-27
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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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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger. Blackie must set out to prove his innocence as well as capture the real killers.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Overview: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Confessions of Boston Blackie
Overview: A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Overview: Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-05
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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Overview: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-05
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Boston Blackie and the Law
Overview: Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-12
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One Mysterious Night
Overview: After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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Trapped by Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-13
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The Dragon Murder Case
Overview: Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-25
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The Last Mile
Overview: Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-17
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Alias Boston Blackie
Overview: It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Taxi!
Overview: Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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Rhythm on the Range
Overview: Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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The Miami Story
Overview: Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-03
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Maid to Order
Overview: While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-28
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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The Phantom Thief
Overview: Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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The Devil with Hitler
Overview: Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-18
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Island of Doomed Men
Overview: An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Overview: Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese espionage activities. Los Angeles cop Preston Foster suspects that there's dirty work afoot in the city's Japanese community, but no one will believe him except for intrepid girl reporter Brenda Joyce. When the spies frame Foster on a trumped-up murder charge, Joyce does a little detective work herself. The enemy agents are rounded up just before they can do any real damage. Because of its strident insistence that most (if not all) Japanese-American citizens were secretly loyal to the Rising Sun, Little Tokyo USA is seldom seen these days.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-08
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Broken Lance
Overview: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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Emergency Call
Overview: A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Secret of the Chateau
Overview: Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-03
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The Steel Cage
Overview: Drama set in San Quentin prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Jungle Hell
Overview: Jungle natives are treated by a physician who goes against the wishes of a witch doctor to provide burn healing methods caused by radioactive rocks discovered when the elephants were felling trees.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Over the Wall
Overview: When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-02
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Overview: Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-03
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Doll Face
Overview: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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Road Show
Overview: Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-18
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Frisco Kid
Overview: After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-30
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You and Me
Overview: Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
Overview: A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
Genres: Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-16
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Broadway Limited
Overview: A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Make a Million
Overview: A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-24
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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The Tijuana Story
Overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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The Spider
Overview: Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-23
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Calypso Heat Wave
Overview: A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-22
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Moonlight on the Prairie
Overview: A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-02
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Here Comes Carter
Overview: A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Overview: A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Overview: A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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King of Hockey
Overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Polo Joe
Overview: A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-04
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Submarine Patrol
Overview: A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Sierra Stranger
Overview: A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Weary River
Overview: A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-10
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Overview: On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-09
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Under a Texas Moon
Overview: A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-01
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Overview: Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-21
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Overview: A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Timber Queen
Overview: Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-13
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Combat Squad
Overview: A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-01
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Tenderloin
Overview: Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-14
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Back in Circulation
Overview: Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Slightly Tempted
Overview: A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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Ocean's Eleven
Overview: Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Emergency
Overview: An armed man breaks into a family's home during a terrible thunderstorm. Aired on Oct 15, 1953 as Season 2, Episode 3 of The Ford Television Theatre.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
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The Conqueror
Overview: Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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San Francisco Nights
Overview: Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Cimarron
Overview: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-26
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Last of the Duanes
Overview: Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Wrecker
Overview: The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
Genres: Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-10
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The Medicine Man
Overview: The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Abie's Irish Rose
Overview: Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-27
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The Long Shot
Overview: A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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King for a Night
Overview: A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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The Big Brain
Overview: A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the one who finally blows the whistle on the prevaricating hair-snipper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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Boulder Dam
Overview: Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Baby Face Nelson
Overview: Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Cherokee Strip
Overview: Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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The Untamed Breed
Overview: A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Sentimental Journey
Overview: An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-06
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I Take This Woman
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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7th Heaven
Overview: In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Man Hunt
Overview: A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-29
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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My Buddy
Overview: A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Freshman Love
Overview: A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-18
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Song of the Eagle
Overview: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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He Couldn't Take It
Overview: Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Brass Knuckles
Overview: Zac Harrison, upon his release from prison, assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry, the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has died. He is reformed by her innocence and, in time marries her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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Breakdowns of 1936
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Frontier Marshal
Overview: Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombstone, becoming acquainted, teaming up, and cleaning up the town with the help of “Doc” Warren and saloon singer Queenie La Verne, while sweet young maiden Mary Reid waits patiently on the sidelines.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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A Girl in Every Port
Overview: After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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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 World and the Flesh
Overview: During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-22
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The Captain's Kid
Overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Overview: Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-23
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Lone Star Ranger
Overview: Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Walking Back
Overview: Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-21
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Ladies Must Love
Overview: Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-25
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State Street Sadie
Overview: Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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The Redeeming Sin
Overview: The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Daisy Kenyon
Overview: Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Naughty Baby
Overview: A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
Overview: A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-23
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Melody Lane
Overview: A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl friend there leaves him. But Madelon can't forget him and comes to the USA to work there as singer. Per chance she meets the songwriter, and he is cured. Singing one of his love songs, he knows that he has found the right girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-20
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Don't Get Me Wrong
Overview: Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Teddington films which are now lost, this still survives. Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic. The millionaire finds himself taking the brunt of the disappointment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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One Hour Late
Overview: A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Anthony Adverse
Overview: Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-26
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Clothes Make the Woman
Overview: A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-04
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Woman's World
Overview: Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Some Came Running
Overview: A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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Back to Nature
Overview: The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-14
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The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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File 113
Overview: A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-05
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Embarrassing Moments
Overview: Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Sailor Be Good
Overview: A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-07
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Pickup on South Street
Overview: In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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Turn Back the Hours
Overview: Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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Million Dollar Baby
Overview: A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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Hold 'Em Yale
Overview: A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Dancing in the Dark
Overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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Alias Jesse James
Overview: Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Shock
Overview: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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Sob Sister
Overview: Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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