Adele Mara
Also Known As: Adelaida Delgado
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl. One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours. In 1961 appeared as a guest star with Cesar Romero on The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled "Deadeye & The Alamo" - she played Elaine the nurse. Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, she was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as a dancer in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick. Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Mara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Highland Park, Michigan, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 28, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 07, 2010
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Count the Hours!
Overview: A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Wake of the Red Witch
Overview: Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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You Were Never Lovelier
Overview: An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-19
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Blackmail
Overview: A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-24
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Back from Eternity
Overview: A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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I, Jane Doe
Overview: While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-25
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Overview: Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Overview: Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-05
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The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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The Inner Circle
Overview: A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-07
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The Vampire's Ghost
Overview: In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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The Catman of Paris
Overview: When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-20
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Overview: A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Exposed
Overview: A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-08
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The Black Whip
Overview: A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes according to plan, the outlaws will murder their hostage after collecting a hefty ransom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Night Time in Nevada
Overview: Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-05
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The Big Circus
Overview: A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-05
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Angel in Exile
Overview: An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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The Tiger Woman
Overview: Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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The Trespasser
Overview: Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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Back from the Front
Overview: The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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The Magnificent Rogue
Overview: A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
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Twilight on the Rio Grande
Overview: Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
Genres: Adventure Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-31
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The Saga of Andy Burnett
Overview: Andy's ambition is to become a farmer, but a penniless mountain man convinces him that is not the life for him. His band puts Andy through a series of tests to see if he has what it takes to become a mountain man.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-02
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Web of Danger
Overview: Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
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Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Rock Island Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Overview: When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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California Passage
Overview: A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Bells of Rosarita
Overview: Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-19
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Passkey to Danger
Overview: An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-11
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Night Train to Memphis
Overview: A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
Genres: Action Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-12
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Girls of the Big House
Overview: A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Overview: Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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Shut My Big Mouth
Overview: A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Genres: Western Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-19
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The Main Street Kid
Overview: A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Grissly's Millions
Overview: An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-16
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The Great Glover
Overview: Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-26
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The Sea Hornet
Overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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The Avengers
Overview: The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels and had thereby to kill a shark. Don tries to prevent the forced marriage of Mary with the ruthless revolutionary Colonel Luis Corral. An armed clash between Don and Luis seems inevitable.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-10
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Faces in the Fog
Overview: Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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The Gallant Legion
Overview: When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-24
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Campus Honeymoon
Overview: Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka University until they find lodgings in the school's overcrowded quarters. They pretend they are married to get the last two units in the married veteran's housing project, with the girls in one unit and the boys in the other. A noisy kid, Junior Ormsbee, the nephew of the landlords, voices his suspicions and nearly gets them evicted. And a U.S. Senator, investigating veteran's projects, adds new complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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I've Always Loved You
Overview: A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-02
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The Invisible Informer
Overview: An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company assigns operatives Eve Rogers and Mike Regan to the case.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-19
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A Guy Could Change
Overview: A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-27
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Traffic in Crime
Overview: Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the two leading gangsters, a mob girl, 'Silk" Cantrell, and a bribe-taking police official, into setting ambushes and death-traps for him, which backfire on them, and achieve his assignment directive.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-28
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Song of Mexico
Overview: Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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Earl Carroll Vanities
Overview: Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Atlantic City
Overview: In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-15
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Thoroughbreds
Overview: Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson. Unfortunately, the father of wealthy socialite Sally Crandall outbids him with plans to train Sireson for a steeplechase race. Sally and Rusty develop a rivalry because she has a favorite horse of her own, but when her horse is hurt she and Rusty declare a truce and begin a romantic relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-23
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Call of the South Seas
Overview: FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-07
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Overview: A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-29
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The Fighting Seabees
Overview: Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-27
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Redhead from Manhattan
Overview: Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-06
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Crime Doctor
Overview: Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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Vengeance of the West
Overview: Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-16
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Lucky Legs
Overview: Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Alias Boston Blackie
Overview: It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Overview: Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud, also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud, Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.
Genres: Western Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-15
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Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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I Can Hardly Wait
Overview: The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy its going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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