Sam Hardy
Also Known As: Sam B. Hardy, Samuel B. Hardy, Samuel Hardy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sam B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras. He died of intestinal problems. He was also known as Samuel Hardy. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hardy attended Yale but left there to become an actor on stage. He entered the world of film with Biograph Studios. Hardy became ill while he was working in the film Shoot the Chutes, starring Eddie Cantor. He did not survive emergency surgery at a hospital.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: March 21, 1883
Deathday: October 16, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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King Kong
Overview: Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-15
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Fast Company
Overview: Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Overview: Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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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 Night Bird
Overview: A boxer falls in love with a girl he meets in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Little Miss Marker
Overview: Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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The Miracle Woman
Overview: After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-17
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Little Old New York
Overview: An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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The Butter and Egg Man
Overview: Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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A Man's Man
Overview: An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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Three-Cornered Moon
Overview: Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-08
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A Texas Steer
Overview: Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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The Dark Horse
Overview: The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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Peach-o-Reno
Overview: After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-25
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Outcast
Overview: Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-11
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Break of Hearts
Overview: Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Curtain at Eight
Overview: An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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Borrowed Wives
Overview: Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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Mexicali Rose
Overview: The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-26
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The Millionaire
Overview: A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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The Champion
Overview: Leather Pushers #10
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-25
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The Gay Bride
Overview: Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Goldie Gets Along
Overview: A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-27
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Overview: Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Magnificent Lie
Overview: A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-25
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Face in the Sky
Overview: Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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Song of the West
Overview: Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Burning Up
Overview: Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
Genres: Romance Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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Give and Take
Overview: The owner of a fruit cannery is facing financial ruin as a result of a strike. Unbeknownst to him, his son is the person who is organizing it.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-23
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Big News
Overview: A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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Night Alarm
Overview: A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Overview: When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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Annabelle's Affairs
Overview: After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her husband and told not to part with them. However she is an extravagant spender and is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival.....
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-14
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True to the Navy
Overview: Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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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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Make Me a Star
Overview: A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-01
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Aunt Sally
Overview: An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-13
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Rule 'Em and Weep
Overview: King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-02
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The Great Deception
Overview: Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, of which he is a member. He is loved by Lois, an American whose favor is sought by Rizzio, also a double agent, who suspects Cyril's disloyalty to Germany. With the intention of conveying false information to the Imperial German Government, Cyril, accompanied by his faithful mechanic, Handy, and by Lois, escapes to Germany, though Lois is herself abducted by Rizzio and brought to headquarters in a U-boat. Innocently, she betrays Cyril, and they are both sentenced to death. On a pretense of aiding Cyril, Rizzio urges Lois to accompany him on a diplomatic mission, but Cyril and Handy overcome their captors; and Lois and Cyril escape to England in his aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-26
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The Savage
Overview: Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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Broadway Nights
Overview: Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their latest show; however, they have no place for Johnny, so Fannie turns down the offer. (Film considered lost.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Overview: A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-04
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Reno
Overview: A film by George Crone
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
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The Big Noise
Overview: John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-25
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Powdersmoke Range
Overview: Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-27
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Diamond Handcuffs
Overview: German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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June Moon
Overview: An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-21
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Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Overview: Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-13
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When Love Grows Cold
Overview: Margaret has given up her stage career to marry inventor Jerry Benson. Jerry fails to impress oil executive William Graves with his idea, but Margaret has better luck when she catches Graves' attention and she both makes the sale and becomes the object of Graves' obsession. Profits from the invention make the Bensons wealthy; however Graves schemes to steal Margaret from Jerry by swindling them out of their money and getting Broadway floozy Gloria to break up their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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The Prince of Tempters
Overview: Francis, the result of a clandestine marriage between the Duke of Chatsfield and a peasant girl, after being raised in a monastery following his parents death assumes his title but falls victim to a pair of schemers leading to much heartache before all is set aright before the fadeout.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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I Give My Love
Overview: After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-17
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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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Orchids and Ermine
Overview: Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of wealth annoys her fellow workers, and ruins the heart of one of her worshiping colleagues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Mighty Lak' a Rose
Overview: A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianist, hears her playing and sends her to an uncle in New York so she can become educated. But the uncle is killed in an accident on his way to meet her and she is taken in by gang leader Bull Morgan. Morgan pretends to be her uncle to elude the police, and he sees the value of keeping her around as cover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Rainbow Man
Overview: The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-16
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Acquitted
Overview: A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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At First Sight
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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The Half-Way Girl
Overview: When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a bar in the seedy part of town as a "hostess", where she meets a down-on-his-luck Englishman. While drunk he gets into a fight, and is forced to kill his opponent in self-defense. The girl helps him escape and goes to Sam, a shady plantation owner, to try to get them out of Singapore. However, Sam has his own plans for Poppy, and they don't include potential rivals for her affections.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-16
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