Gordon Hart
Also Known As: Francis Gordon Hart
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Devon, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 24, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 27, 1973
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Overview: Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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The Great O'Malley
Overview: His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-13
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Isle of Fury
Overview: An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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Under Southern Stars
Overview: Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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Man from Music Mountain
Overview: Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-15
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Down the Stretch
Overview: A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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West of Shanghai
Overview: American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Guns of the Pecos
Overview: A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-28
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Land Beyond the Law
Overview: A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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King of Hockey
Overview: Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Overview: Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-04
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Numbered Woman
Overview: After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-22
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The Lady in the Morgue
Overview: A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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A Day at Santa Anita
Overview: Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Back in Circulation
Overview: Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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Radio Patrol
Overview: About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-03
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Racket Busters
Overview: A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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Fugitive in the Sky
Overview: Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Cassidy of Bar 20
Overview: Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an urgent message from his lifelong sweetheart, Nora Blake, who is in serious trouble. Before he and his saddlemates, "Lucky" Jenkins and "Pappy", can reach her ranch, they are stopped by Clay Allison, a cattle-rustler who is in almost complete control of the district, and wants to extend his holdings by seizing Nora's cattle and driving her out. Seeing Cassidy as a menace to his plans, he has him arrested on a trumped-up charge. Cassidy and his pals shoot their way out of the trouble and reach Nora;s ranch where they learn that Allison's henchmen have murdered her foreman, Tom Dillon, and Allison has sent for a crew of outlaws on the Texas border.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Overview: A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-08
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Melody for Two
Overview: A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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The Case of the Black Cat
Overview: Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-31
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Public Wedding
Overview: The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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The White Angel
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
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Women in the Wind
Overview: A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-15
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Lincoln in the White House
Overview: This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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The Cherokee Strip
Overview: A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
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Midnight Court
Overview: After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Overview: Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-16
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Should a Girl Marry?
Overview: A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Blazing Sixes
Overview: Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-12
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Fly Away Baby
Overview: Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-19
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The Devil's Saddle Legion
Overview: Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-14
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Once a Doctor
Overview: Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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The Beloved Brat
Overview: Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Overview: Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Syncopation
Overview: A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-22
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Secret of the Wastelands
Overview: Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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White Bondage
Overview: A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-05
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Overview: German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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The Captain's Kid
Overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Her Husband's Secretary
Overview: A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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I Am an American
Overview: The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-23
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Give Me Liberty
Overview: Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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The Romance Of Robert Burns
Overview: The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her side before she is married off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Blondes at Work
Overview: When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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Romance Road
Overview: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.
Genres: Adventure Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-29
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The Wrong Road
Overview: A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-11
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Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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On Trial
Overview: An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Overland Stage Raiders
Overview: After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-20
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