Lloyd Corrigan
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Biography: Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s. The son of actress Lillian Elliott, Corrigan directed films, usually mysteries such as Daughter of the Dragon starring Anna May Wong (one of a trilogy of Fu Manchu movies for which he has writing credits), before dedicating himself more to acting in 1938. His short La Cucaracha won an Academy Award in 1935.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 14, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 05, 1969
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The Manchurian Candidate
Overview: Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Overview: Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-08
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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Son of Paleface
Overview: Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-14
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Nobody's Darling
Overview: Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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The Magnificent Stranger
Overview: Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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The Chase
Overview: Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Overview: On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-24
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The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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She-Wolf of London
Overview: A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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Confessions of Boston Blackie
Overview: A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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Boston Blackie 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 Big Clock
Overview: Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Overview: Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-08
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Lights of Old Santa Fe
Overview: Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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Dancing in the Dark
Overview: Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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The Mantrap
Overview: Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-13
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Whistling in the Dark
Overview: Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Overview: A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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Shadowed
Overview: Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-26
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The Lady in Question
Overview: When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-07
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Captive Wild Woman
Overview: An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-04
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The Crime Doctor's Courage
Overview: A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-27
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Overview: Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-01
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Two Smart People
Overview: Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-04
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Eyes of the Underworld
Overview: Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Overview: Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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The Bride Goes Wild
Overview: McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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London Blackout Murders
Overview: A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Homicide for Three
Overview: While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-08
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Ghost Chasers
Overview: A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Genres: Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-29
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King of the Cowboys
Overview: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Song of Nevada
Overview: When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-05
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The Last Outpost
Overview: The cavalry defend a small town from indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Lucky Jordan
Overview: Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Her First Romance
Overview: A teenager experiences her first crush while attending a summer camp. Director Seymour Friedman's 1951 film stars Margaret O'Brien, Allen Martin Jr., Sharyn Moffett, Jimmy Hunt, Elinor Donahue, Ann Doran, Lloyd Corrigan, Atthur Space and Maudie Prickett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Father Is a Bachelor
Overview: Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, especially the young school teacher, Prudence Millett, to avoid being sent to a children's home and eventual separation. Johnny moves in with the kids and poses as their uncle to take care of them while romancing Prudence. But in order to keep the children, he has to get married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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And Baby Makes Three
Overview: A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Overview: Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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The Return of October
Overview: A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Overview: An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Overview: A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Blaze of Noon
Overview: In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Lady Luck
Overview: A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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Mr. Reckless
Overview: An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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High School
Overview: A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Alias Mr. Twilight
Overview: Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-24
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Adventures of Casanova
Overview: Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Gambler's Choice
Overview: The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-27
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Hitler's Children
Overview: This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-06
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New Mexico
Overview: Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Return of Frank James
Overview: Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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The Great Commandment
Overview: Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-02
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Rosie the Riveter
Overview: In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-08
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Kathleen
Overview: Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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The Fighting Guardsman
Overview: A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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Sporting Blood
Overview: Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-11
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Jack Pot
Overview: This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Two Girls on Broadway
Overview: Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
Overview: A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-17
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Opened by Mistake
Overview: A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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North to the Klondike
Overview: Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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The Girl from Jones Beach
Overview: Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-16
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Treat 'Em Rough
Overview: When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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Young Tom Edison
Overview: Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Overview: Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-10
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Captain Caution
Overview: When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Sierra Passage
Overview: When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Bombay Clipper
Overview: Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-11
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Secrets of the Underground
Overview: With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Strike It Rich
Overview: When not drinking and fighting, three wildcatters in search of a gusher are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of them grows dissatisfied with their lifestyle and quits so he can be with his new wife. Unfortunately for him, soon after he leaves, the other two find their gusher and become filthy rich. The impoverished quitter is envious and begins looking for an obscure law that will force his pals to share.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-01
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Return from the Sea
Overview: A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Overview: Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film shows the return of the legendary former Marshal Wyatt Earp to his old stomping grounds. He visits old friends, teaches bad guys some manners and reveals secrets about his early life.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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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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Bring on the Girls
Overview: A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-30
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Marry Me Again
Overview: Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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The Stars Are Singing
Overview: After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of aspiring singer Terry Brennan (Rosemary Clooney). Soon Terry has Katri booked on a TV talent show -- but her immigration status may cause a problem. This musical classic boasts a host of famous performers, including Metropolitan Opera star Lauritz Melchior. [netflix]
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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Stallion Road
Overview: A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-12
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Home in San Antone
Overview: Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-14
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Hidden Guns
Overview: The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-30
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Overview: Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-28
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My Friend Irma Goes West
Overview: Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-25
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Men of Boys Town
Overview: Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Lake Placid Serenade
Overview: On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-23
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High Tor
Overview: High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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Passport to Destiny
Overview: An English charwoman, believing herself protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-31
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Public Deb No. 1
Overview: When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Paris Follies of 1956
Overview: Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-27
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Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Overview: Two singers step in to help an aspiring actress whose grandmother opposes her bid to launch a show-business career
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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A Date with Judy
Overview: Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-29
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Reckless Age
Overview: Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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It
Overview: A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, the capitvating personal quality otherwise known as "it."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-05
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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Overview: In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-21
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Tennessee Johnson
Overview: The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-01
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Queen of the Mob
Overview: Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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