John McGuire
Also Known As: Джон Макгуайр, Джон Макгвайр
Biography: John McGuire was born on October 22, 1910. He was an actor, known for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Invisible Ghost (1941). He died on September 30, 1980 in Dublin, Ireland.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 30, 1980
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You're in the Navy Now
Overview: When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Invisible Ghost
Overview: The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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Charlie Chan at the Circus
Overview: While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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End of the Trail
Overview: In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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Dead of Night
Overview: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-09
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Overview: Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Wedded Blitz
Overview: Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Love in September
Overview: The story of a kindly old lady, her involvement with midget race cars and their drivers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Bells of San Angelo
Overview: Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-15
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Overview: A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-06
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The Tanks Are Coming
Overview: An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Overview: After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Highways by Night
Overview: A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Highway 13
Overview: Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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Flamingo Road
Overview: A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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Women Without Names
Overview: Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-14
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Sea Raiders
Overview: A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Overview: Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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The First Legion
Overview: A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Fugitives for a Night
Overview: A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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This Is the Life
Overview: A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-07
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Overview: The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, her admiration turns into suspicion.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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White Heat
Overview: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Federal Agent at Large
Overview: A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-12
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Street of Memories
Overview: Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Overview: A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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The Sea Hornet
Overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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Rock Island Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Overview: Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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The Navy Comes Through
Overview: A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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The Strawberry Roan
Overview: Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-01
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Sky Liner
Overview: Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Your Uncle Dudley
Overview: A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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Powder Town
Overview: Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-07
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Human Cargo
Overview: Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Contented Calves
Overview: An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-06
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My Favorite Spy
Overview: The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Overview: An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Overview: Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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Outlaw Rule
Overview: A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found dead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Racket
Overview: The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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Ever Since Eden
Overview: A history of the tomato. Begins with the discovery of the plant by Cortes when he conquered Montezuma.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Fighter Squadron
Overview: During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-27
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