Spencer Charters
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spencer Charters (March 25, 1875 – January 25, 1943) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 220 films between 1920 and 1943, mostly in small supporting roles. Spencer Charters first stage work soon after leaving school was a walk on part, but it wasn't long before he was being given fair-sized roles. He played on Broadway between 1910 and 1929 and was a busy character actor in films during the 1930s and early 1940s. He often portrayed somewhat befuddeled judges, doctors, clerks, managers, and jailers. He died by suicide from a mix of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1875
Age: 150 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 25, 1943
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Genres: Comedy History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Four's a Crowd
Overview: A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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Blondie Plays Cupid
Overview: The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-31
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Our Town
Overview: Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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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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Petticoat Politics
Overview: Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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The Covered Trailer
Overview: The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Welcome Home
Overview: A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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High Sierra
Overview: Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Lady Killer
Overview: An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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It's a Gift
Overview: After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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Remember the Night
Overview: Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Moon Over Miami
Overview: After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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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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Fashions of 1934
Overview: When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The Raven
Overview: A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Movie Crazy
Overview: After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Overview: An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Crime School
Overview: In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-10
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Palmy Days
Overview: Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-23
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The Match King
Overview: Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Lonely Wives
Overview: A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-15
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Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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The Golden Fleecing
Overview: A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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The Goose and the Gander
Overview: When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Overview: Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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The Nut Farm
Overview: Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-24
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Love on a Bet
Overview: An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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She Couldn't Say No
Overview: Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-07
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Mr. Chump
Overview: A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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He Married His Wife
Overview: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Five of a Kind
Overview: Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Overview: Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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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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Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Lady Behave!
Overview: It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Overview: A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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The Harvester
Overview: In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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The Bride Walks Out
Overview: Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Mr. Skitch
Overview: After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Boy Trouble
Overview: A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Spendthrift
Overview: A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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Topper Takes a Trip
Overview: Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Career Woman
Overview: A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-18
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Pacific Blackout
Overview: Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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Traveling Husbands
Overview: A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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The Flying Irishman
Overview: This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Crooked Circle
Overview: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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The Circus Clown
Overview: A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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Whoopee!
Overview: Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
Genres: Music Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
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Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Breaking the Ice
Overview: The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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The St. Louis Kid
Overview: Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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The Firebird
Overview: Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head. Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-03
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Wake Up and Dream
Overview: The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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The Gay Deception
Overview: A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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Lady from Nowhere
Overview: A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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Blind Date
Overview: A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-20
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In Person
Overview: Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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F-Man
Overview: Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-02
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Inside Story
Overview: A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Ex-Bad Boy
Overview: A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-15
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Banjo on My Knee
Overview: A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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The Moon's Our Home
Overview: A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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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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Women in the Wind
Overview: A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-15
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Tobacco Road
Overview: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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The Bat Whispers
Overview: Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-13
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In Name Only
Overview: A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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One Wild Night
Overview: Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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The Hurricane
Overview: A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-09
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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36 Hours to Kill
Overview: Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Million Dollar Ransom
Overview: To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Fugitive in the Sky
Overview: Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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The Lady and the Mob
Overview: Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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Spring Madness
Overview: Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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The Tenderfoot
Overview: Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-23
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Alias the Deacon
Overview: A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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Jesse James
Overview: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-14
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Eight Bells
Overview: A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-10
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Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case
Overview: Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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Girl Loves Boy
Overview: Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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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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They Made Her a Spy
Overview: When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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Dodge City
Overview: In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Two Thoroughbreds
Overview: A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Dr. Broadway
Overview: A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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The Texas Rangers
Overview: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Overview: Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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The Under-Pup
Overview: A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-31
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Dust Be My Destiny
Overview: Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-16
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Postal Inspector
Overview: Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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The Farmer in the Dell
Overview: An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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The Secret Bride
Overview: Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-22
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Whispering Smith Speaks
Overview: O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Bedtime Story
Overview: A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Janice Meredith
Overview: It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-08
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Overview: Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Female
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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The Kid From Texas
Overview: A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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Hold 'Em Jail
Overview: Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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So This Is Africa
Overview: Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-21
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Libeled Lady
Overview: When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Jewel Robbery
Overview: A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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All American Chump
Overview: A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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Big Town Girl
Overview: When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Four Days Wonder
Overview: Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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Man at Large
Overview: FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas Dayle is assigned by her editor to track down the enemy aviator and get an exclusive story. When she catches up with Grayson and Max, Dallas is under the impression that Grayson is a rival reporter and Max is the genuine fugitive.
Genres: War Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Overview: Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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They Asked For It
Overview: In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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Rough Necking
Overview: The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him into the house disguised as a woman. One of her father's friends, however, falls in love with the mysterious young "woman".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-24
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Overview: Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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The Night Before the Divorce
Overview: Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Overview: Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Gambling Ship
Overview: Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Friendly Neighbors
Overview: The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-17
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The Loudspeaker
Overview: A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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The Boys from Syracuse
Overview: The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Maryland
Overview: A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Gabriel Over the White House
Overview: A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Romance in Manhattan
Overview: Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Vivacious Lady
Overview: College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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From Headquarters
Overview: When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-16
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Unexpected Father
Overview: Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko. Theatre manager Allen Rand threatens to fire Jimmy for neglecting his work, but Jimmy's girlfriend Diana squares things by going to dinner with Rand over Jimmy's objections. Sandy catches measles and the quarantine causes Jimmy and Boris to miss a big audition.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-14
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Overview: Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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Silver Queen
Overview: A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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The Singing Hill
Overview: If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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Stablemates
Overview: A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Forbidden Valley
Overview: In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-13
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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So Ends Our Night
Overview: An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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April Folly
Overview: April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-20
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The Road to Reno
Overview: An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Meet the Missus
Overview: Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Dangerous Number
Overview: Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Venus Makes Trouble
Overview: A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Fifty Roads to Town
Overview: A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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The Great American Pie Company
Overview: In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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The Kennel Murder Case
Overview: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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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 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 Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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Half a Sinner
Overview: A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Behind the Mike
Overview: Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-26
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The Mighty Treve
Overview: Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-17
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Joy of Living
Overview: Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Overview: Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Girl from God's Country
Overview: Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-04
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Central Park
Overview: Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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The Ghost Walks
Overview: A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Star of Midnight
Overview: When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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Mountain Music
Overview: Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Union Depot
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Look Who's Laughing
Overview: Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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Checkers
Overview: A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-08
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Murder on a Bridle Path
Overview: When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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