Tom Brown
Also Known As: Thomas Edward Brown, Thomas Brown, Том Браун
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Edward Brown was an American child model, and later a film and television actor. Brown was born Thomas Edward Brown, the son of William Harold (Harry) Brown and his wife, Marie Francis Brown, in New York City. As a child model from the age of two years, Brown posed as Buster Brown, the Arrow Collar Boy and the Buick boy. Brown was educated at the New York Professional Children's School. He was carried on stage in his mother's arms when he was only six months old. As an actor, he is probably best remembered for playing the title role in The Adventures of Smilin' Jack and as Gilbert Blythe in the 1934 version of Anne of Green Gables. Later he appeared on the television shows Gunsmoke, General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. He also had a recurring role as Lt. Rovacs in Mr. Lucky. He enlisted in the United States Army in World War II where in three years he rose from private to lieutenant serving in France as a paratrooper where he was awarded a French Croix de Guerre and a Bronze Star Medal. He was promoted to captain with the 40th Infantry Division. He served during the Korean War with the 40th Infantry Division where he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. Brown died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, aged 77. For his contributions to the film industry, Brown was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, with a motion pictures star located at 1648 Vine Street.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 06, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 03, 1990
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Judge Priest
Overview: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Maytime
Overview: An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Anne of Green Gables
Overview: Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-02
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The Lady Lies
Overview: Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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Slippy McGee
Overview: A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Three-Cornered Moon
Overview: Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-08
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Hell's Highway
Overview: A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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The Payoff
Overview: The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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Laughter in Hell
Overview: In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-12
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Central Airport
Overview: Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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The Notorious Mr. Monks
Overview: A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Merrily We Live
Overview: Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Destination Unknown
Overview: A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Navy Blue and Gold
Overview: Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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The Duke of West Point
Overview: A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Overview: This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Wrongdoers
Overview: Philanthropical druggist Daniel Abbott, occasionally robs the rich to take care of the poor, goes to court with his young ward, Jimmy Nolan. In the courtroom Daniel meets Mrs. Warren, who, despondent over her inability to care for a newborn baby, has been charged with attempted suicide. Daniel takes mother and daughter under his wing, watching with pride as the girl, Helen, and his ward, Jimmy, grow to a tender adolescence. Sylvester Doane, a tenement owner, falls in love with Helen, and Daniel makes plans to rob him. Jimmy learns with shock of the plans and goes to Doane's apartment to prevent the robbery. Jimmy takes the gems to forestall his father, but he is found with them in his possession and put in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-03
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Black Sheep
Overview: On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his son he's not seen since infancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Niagara Falls
Overview: The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Duke of Chicago
Overview: To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-15
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Mary Jane's Pa
Overview: Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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Sweepstake Annie
Overview: A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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I'd Give My Life
Overview: The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-13
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Operation Haylift
Overview: A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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These Glamour Girls
Overview: A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Sergeant Madden
Overview: A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Goodbye Broadway
Overview: Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
Overview: Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-05
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The Witching Hour
Overview: Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-29
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Youth on Parade
Overview: In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal has everything a university would ever want. The trouble begins when the campus psych professor becomes determined to meet this girl. If the gang cannot bring her forward, they will be expelled. They hire a New York actress to portray the imaginary girl and all is well at the end. Songs include: "It Seems I've Heard That Song Before," "You're So Good to Me" "If It's Love," "Man," "Gotcha Too Ta Mee," "You Got to Study, Buddy." All the songs were penned by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne who went on to become one of Hollywood's top song-writing teams.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-24
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Two Alone
Overview: Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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There's One Born Every Minute
Overview: A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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This Side of Heaven
Overview: A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Overview: A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-05
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I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: Rival horse traders clash in the Old West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-16
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Sandy Is a Lady
Overview: Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-21
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Hello, Sucker
Overview: A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-01
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Freckles
Overview: A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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That Man's Here Again
Overview: An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Three Sons o' Guns
Overview: Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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Her Husband Lies
Overview: J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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The Quiet Gun
Overview: A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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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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Swing That Cheer
Overview: Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-13
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Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
Overview: In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Overview: In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To escort her about town, the agent invents a "Mr. Manhattan." He then has them fake a marriage. When he realizes that he is in love with his creation, the agent promptly fires "Mr. M" and takes her to the altar personally. Songs include: "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me," "Unfair To Love," and "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love."
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Margie
Overview: Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Tom Brown of Culver
Overview: Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-30
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The Choppers
Overview: A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Hello, Annapolis
Overview: Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Naked Gun
Overview: Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Big Town Czar
Overview: When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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Manhunt in Space
Overview: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Fast Companions
Overview: A crooked jockey tries to reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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The Storm
Overview: A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Ringside
Overview: Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-14
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Annapolis Farewell
Overview: Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Let's Get Tough
Overview: Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Sleepytime Gal
Overview: Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Ex-Champ
Overview: A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Cutter's Trail
Overview: The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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Rose Bowl
Overview: Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Gentle Julia
Overview: A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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