Harry Shannon
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Biography: Born and raised on a farm in Michigan in 1890, Irish-American character actor Harry Shannon had the credentials for becoming a staple player in westerns. He started off his career traveling around with repertory and stock companies and developed his musical abilities in tent shows, burlesque houses and such tuneful Broadway shows as "Oh, Kay!" (1926), "Hold Everything" (1928), "Simple Simon" (1931), and "Pardon My English" (1933). A company member of Joseph Schildkraut's Hollywood Theater Guild, Shannon broke into films at the advent of sound and started things off in comedy film shorts opposite such celebrated players as Bert Lahr, Shemp Howard, and Leon Errol. In the 1940s Shannon established himself in feature-length movies and although he remained a minor, second-string player, he proved himself a durable presence in westerns usually remaining on the good side of the law as sheriffs and bucolic dads. In lighthearted entertainment he could be found as a friendly Irish cop or bartender. He made a slight but memorable impression as Kane's alcoholic father in the classic Citizen Kane (1941), while his last role would be as the grandfather in the musical Gypsy (1962). In between were small parts in such notable films as The Fighting Sullivans (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), High Noon (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Buccaneer (1958). 1950s TV westerns such as Cheyenne (1955), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), and Gunsmoke (1955) made consistent use of his rustic demeanor. Shannon died in 1964 at age 74.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Birthday: June 12, 1890
Deathday: July 27, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Citizen Kane
Overview: Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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Touch of Evil
Overview: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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My Girl Tisa
Overview: 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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The Lady from Shanghai
Overview: A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Where Danger Lives
Overview: A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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The Red House
Overview: An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Overview: In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Overview: An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Cry of the Hunted
Overview: A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Night Editor
Overview: A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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A Peach of a Pair
Overview: Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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The Underworld Story
Overview: A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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Crime, Inc.
Overview: A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-15
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The Scarf
Overview: A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Overview: Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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The Lonely Man
Overview: Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-21
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Overview: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-16
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The Farmer's Daughter
Overview: After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-26
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Witness to Murder
Overview: A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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City of Chance
Overview: Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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This Gun for Hire
Overview: Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Hunt the Man Down
Overview: A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Invisible Wall
Overview: A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-15
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Gypsy
Overview: Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Kansas Pacific
Overview: Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-22
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Written on the Wind
Overview: Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-04
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Mr. Soft Touch
Overview: When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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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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Yellowstone Kelly
Overview: A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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San Quentin
Overview: An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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The Saint In Palm Springs
Overview: George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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Man or Gun
Overview: Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-30
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Flesh and Fury
Overview: Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-26
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Tulsa
Overview: It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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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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At Gunpoint
Overview: A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Overview: A female police detective enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Genres: Crime Mystery Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang
Overview: Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-12
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Alibi Mark
Overview: When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-25
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When the Lights Go On Again
Overview: The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-22
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The Yellow Rose of Texas
Overview: Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-24
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Song of Texas
Overview: A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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Singing Guns
Overview: Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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Hell's Crossroads
Overview: An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Smoked Hams
Overview: A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-20
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Idaho
Overview: A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Duel at Apache Wells
Overview: A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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The Marauders
Overview: A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-26
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Overview: Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-25
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Overview: Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Rails Into Laramie
Overview: A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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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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Jack Slade
Overview: A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-08
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The Flying Missile
Overview: A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Lure of the Wilderness
Overview: A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in search of his dog.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-16
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The Violent Men
Overview: A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-26
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Come Next Spring
Overview: Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-09
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Three Little Words
Overview: Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Wild in the Country
Overview: A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-15
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Time Out of Mind
Overview: The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-03
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Fighting Father Dunne
Overview: A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Heads Up
Overview: Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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The Powers Girl
Overview: Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Summer and Smoke
Overview: In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-16
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Dangerous Years
Overview: Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Overview: A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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Alaska Highway
Overview: Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Coswell, the daughter of road engineer Blair Caswell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Sailor's Lady
Overview: Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Overview: "An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-30
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I Ring Doorbells
Overview: Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
Overview: Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Phantom Stallion
Overview: Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Big Town Scandal
Overview: A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
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Parole Fixer
Overview: This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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The World of Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" (1939).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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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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Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Overview: A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Rustlers
Overview: A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher Frank Abbott turns over to the gang to get his cattle back. Unfortunately drifters Dick McBride and Chito Rafferty are accused of being in the gang when they are found with the money, which they have actually won at the casino of saloon owner Brad Carew, a member of the gang. Dick and Chito break out of jail and hunt down the fleeing Carew in hopes of finding out who the true leader of the gang is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-03
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In Old California
Overview: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
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Too Many Girls
Overview: Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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Champion
Overview: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Wrongorilla
Overview: Jack Haley joins the circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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Someone to Remember
Overview: An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-21
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Cow Town
Overview: Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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Take a Chance
Overview: Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Sympathy
Overview: Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-29
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Close Relations
Overview: Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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Faint Heart
Overview: Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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The Mummy's Ghost
Overview: An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Tall Men
Overview: Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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The Peacemaker
Overview: A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Gambling on the High Seas
Overview: A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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No More West
Overview: Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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Tear Gas Squad
Overview: A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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One Crowded Night
Overview: The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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In Old Oklahoma
Overview: Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-06
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Headin' for God's Country
Overview: In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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The Falcon Takes Over
Overview: While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Blue Blood
Overview: An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-28
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Captain Eddie
Overview: WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-18
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The Lady Is Willing
Overview: Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-12
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The Sound of Fury
Overview: A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
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Roar of the Crowd
Overview: Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-31
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Tarnished
Overview: Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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Executive Suite
Overview: When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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Crack-Up
Overview: Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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The Mad Martindales
Overview: A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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The Girl from Avenue A
Overview: A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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The Buccaneer
Overview: During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-11
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Pride of the Marines
Overview: Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-24
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Canyon Passage
Overview: In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-17
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