John Turnbull
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Turnbull was a British film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turnbull (actor),licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dunbar, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 23, 1956
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Lord Edgware Dies
Overview: A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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The 39 Steps
Overview: Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-06
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Overview: Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Silver Blaze
Overview: Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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The Shadow
Overview: A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Hard Steel
Overview: A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Overview: During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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So Well Remembered
Overview: A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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His Lordship
Overview: A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
Overview: Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-08
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The Black Abbot
Overview: A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-10
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Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor
Overview: In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Three Silent Men
Overview: An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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Song of the Road
Overview: After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-08
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Make-Up
Overview: Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Saturday Night Revue
Overview: There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Overview: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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The Lady Is Willing
Overview: In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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The Midshipmaid
Overview: Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
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Tudor Rose
Overview: The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Strange Boarders
Overview: Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-01
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Daybreak
Overview: A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Overview: The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Matinee Idol
Overview: A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-29
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Puppets of Fate
Overview: 'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-10
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Spare a Copper
Overview: George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-02
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Night Alone
Overview: Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-13
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Love at Sea
Overview: A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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The Hangman Waits
Overview: A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Ask Beccles
Overview: A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Night of the Party
Overview: A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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Badger’s Green
Overview: A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-11
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The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss
Overview: A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Black Mask
Overview: British crime film directed by Ralph Ince
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Spies of the Air
Overview: Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-30
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Shipmates o' Mine
Overview: A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-18
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The Common Touch
Overview: On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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The Umbrella
Overview: Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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77 Park Lane
Overview: When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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Tons of Money
Overview: A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Keepers of Youth
Overview: The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Rodney Steps In
Overview: A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-30
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Detective Lloyd
Overview: A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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The Man at Six
Overview: A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Wickham Mystery
Overview: 'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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Stepping Toes
Overview: The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by hereditary, and wins a talent competition, leading to star in a west end show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-11
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Murder on the Second Floor
Overview: A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-04
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A Voice Said Goodnight
Overview: A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Overview: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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The Man Outside
Overview: A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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A Place of One's Own
Overview: An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-20
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Passing Shadows
Overview: The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Where There's a Will
Overview: Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
Overview: The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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The Man from Yesterday
Overview: A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-01
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The Shipbuilders
Overview: A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Music Hall
Overview: A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-26
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The Terror
Overview: For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-02
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Once in a New Moon
Overview: When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Prete, fai un miracolo
Overview: "Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-17
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The Gaunt Stranger
Overview: A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Fanny by Gaslight
Overview: Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-08
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Don't Take It to Heart
Overview: A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-13
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Tangled Evidence
Overview: A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-17
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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Overview: Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-10
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: 18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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It's a Cop
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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