Don Brodie
Also Known As: Donald Lee Brodie, Donald L. Brodie, Donald Brodie, Don L. Brodie, Don Brody, Donald Ellis Brodie
Biography: Don Brodie was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 29, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 08, 2001
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Theodora Goes Wild
Overview: The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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...All the Marbles
Overview: A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Bombshell
Overview: A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Overview: Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Murphy's Law
Overview: A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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Jewel Robbery
Overview: A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Diary of a Madman
Overview: Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-06
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Overview: Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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The Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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A Man Betrayed
Overview: Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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The Super Snooper
Overview: Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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On the Town
Overview: Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Elmer, the Great
Overview: Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-29
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The Ladies Man
Overview: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Donald's Better Self
Overview: Schoolboy Donald is torn between his angel and devil sides, though in Donald's case, the devil side isn't hard to resist. But the smoking he's encouraged to do turns him green and gives him regrets, and when the good side shows up and kicks evil's butt, Donald cheers.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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The Last Tycoon
Overview: Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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Midnight Mary
Overview: While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Donovan's Brain
Overview: A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-30
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Street Corner
Overview: Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist. Depending on the release presentation, the movie includes an animation of conception, filmed vaginal and caesarian section births, and a filmed presentation on how syphilis and gonorrhea present themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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Exclusive Story
Overview: A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Missing Girls
Overview: A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-10
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Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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The Patsy
Overview: When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Harvey
Overview: The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-04
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Music in My Heart
Overview: A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-04
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Hard to Handle
Overview: A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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I'll Never Heil Again
Overview: The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-04
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The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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The Girl Who Came Back
Overview: A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Overview: Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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The Luck of the Irish
Overview: Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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Reckless
Overview: A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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Partners in Crime
Overview: Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Detour
Overview: The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-30
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Hell's Outpost
Overview: A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-15
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Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Mickey's Kangaroo
Overview: A friend in Australia has sent Mickey the kangaroo Hoppy, who with her pesky son drives Pluto completely to distraction. Mickey wants to train the kangaroos to be fighters, but they end up throwing him in his own hay-baling machine.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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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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While New York Sleeps
Overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Speed
Overview: Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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Hollywood Handicap
Overview: A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
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Ride the High Country
Overview: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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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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Baby Daze
Overview: Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-18
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Man Of The People
Overview: An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-27
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It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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Night Spot
Overview: A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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Love Is a Headache
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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One More Spring
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Lilly Turner
Overview: One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-13
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Woman Wanted
Overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
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Fatal Lady
Overview: On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Spendthrift
Overview: A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-22
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The Phantom Creeps
Overview: A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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Music Is Magic
Overview: An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Overview: A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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The Defense Rests
Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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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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Sworn Enemy
Overview: A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Strike Me Pink
Overview: Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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King of the Jungle
Overview: A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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You Said a Mouthful
Overview: Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Fast and Loose
Overview: The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Overview: In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Overview: The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Way Down South
Overview: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Golden Boy
Overview: Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-05
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Desperate Cargo
Overview: When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Dr. Broadway
Overview: A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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Sue My Lawyer
Overview: Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-15
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The Call of the Savage
Overview: Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Overview: Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-13
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Murder at Glen Athol
Overview: A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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Summer Storm
Overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-14
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The Winning Ticket
Overview: A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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Danger Ahead
Overview: The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Sky Bandits
Overview: Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Genres: Action Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-06
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Girl in Danger
Overview: Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-11
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The Chase
Overview: The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-18
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Crashing Hollywood
Overview: A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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The Great Dictator
Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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My Old Kentucky Home
Overview: Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
Overview: In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-19
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Postal Inspector
Overview: Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Overview: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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The Rookie Cop
Overview: A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-28
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Overview: Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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Second Chorus
Overview: Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Did'ja Know?
Overview: This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do indoor radiators make that pounding noise? Why do mammals yawn?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-06
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The Last Express
Overview: A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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The Woman in the Window
Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-25
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Captains Courageous
Overview: Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-25
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The Dancing Millionaire
Overview: The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Overview: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-09
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It's in the Air
Overview: Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-10
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Rhythm on the River
Overview: Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Overview: A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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Road to Singapore
Overview: Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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And Sudden Death
Overview: An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
Overview: A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-30
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Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Incendiary Blonde
Overview: Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-25
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Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell
Overview: Tycoon Howard Hughes and actress Jean Harlow have an affair while making his 1930 "Hell's Angels."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn
Overview: The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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The Comancheros
Overview: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-16
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Saturday's Millions
Overview: Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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The Westland Case
Overview: A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Overview: Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
Genres: Action Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-05
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Bell, Book and Candle
Overview: A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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American Spoken Here
Overview: This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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Just Suppose
Overview: An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-17
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Wholesailing Along
Overview: Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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The Kennel Murder Case
Overview: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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The Big Game
Overview: A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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The Rainmakers
Overview: Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Overview: When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Mr. Lucky
Overview: A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-01
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Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Overview: A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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You May Be Next!
Overview: Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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The Working Man
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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The Wet Parade
Overview: The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Her Favorite Patient
Overview: A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
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Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The Proud Ones
Overview: Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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You Only Live Once
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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Alibi for Murder
Overview: A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Overview: Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-21
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The Garden Murder Case
Overview: Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Ghost Talks
Overview: The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-03
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My Dream Is Yours
Overview: Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Big Brown Eyes
Overview: Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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Perils of Pauline
Overview: A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-05
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The Secret of Lost Valley
Overview: While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. When the wild boy is captured by scientists, Adam helps him escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-27
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Made on Broadway
Overview: A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-19
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Overview: Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Forced Landing
Overview: In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-02
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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The Timid Young Man
Overview: Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has sworn off men. Their trip together runs into interference from an aggressive driver who later reappears after the two have set up camp. He starts putting the moves on the woman, but when Milton's ex-girlfriend shows up, she gets into a fight with the interloper and gives Milton and his new pal the chance to slip away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Johnny Angel
Overview: George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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