Ben Welden
Also Known As: Benjamin Weinblatt, Ben Weldon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 17, 1997
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Mannequin
Overview: 'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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The Pretender
Overview: Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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Here Comes Elmer
Overview: This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-15
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Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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His Grace Gives Notice
Overview: 'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Overview: Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-07
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Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
Overview: A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-09
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Appointment with Murder
Overview: The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Search for Danger
Overview: The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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The Saint in New York
Overview: A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Overview: Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Dangerously They Live
Overview: A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Genres: Romance War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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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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Confession
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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Thunder Bay
Overview: Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Overview: Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-01
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Here Comes Trouble
Overview: A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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Tenth Avenue Kid
Overview: In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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Tough Assignment
Overview: A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Genres: Western Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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Lady at Midnight
Overview: A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-15
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The Man from Chicago
Overview: 'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-22
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Three Dark Horses
Overview: A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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Fighting Fools
Overview: The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-17
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Love Is on the Air
Overview: A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
Genres: Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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Varsity Show
Overview: Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-04
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Wolf of New York
Overview: A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-23
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Knockout
Overview: Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-29
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The Duke Comes Back
Overview: After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-29
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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I'll Wait for You
Overview: A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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Heading for Heaven
Overview: A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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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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Boys' Reformatory
Overview: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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Bullet Scars
Overview: Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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South of Pago Pago
Overview: Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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The Crooked Circle
Overview: A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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The Missing Corpse
Overview: A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Federal Man-Hunt
Overview: By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-27
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Always Goodbye
Overview: Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Happy Landing
Overview: Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-23
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Prison Nurse
Overview: A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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Mystery House
Overview: When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-21
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The Black Abbot
Overview: A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-10
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Crime Ring
Overview: Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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The Night Hawk
Overview: Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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This Is the Life
Overview: This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-24
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On the Isle of Samoa
Overview: After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Strange Alibi
Overview: An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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Back in Circulation
Overview: Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Overview: Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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Love and Hisses
Overview: As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Overview: Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Overview: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-16
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Adventures of Captain Africa
Overview: Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John Hart and the always-dull Rick Vallin making less-than-adequate substitutes for Tom Tyler and Gilbert Roland, this Sam Katzman "production" finds the mighty jungle avenger and legendary Captain Africa - A "Phantom" rip-off that side-stepped the need to pay King Features another fee for using the character - pledging to see that the legitimate Arabian caliph, Hamid, is restored to the throne which a tyrannical rival has usurped. He is joined in this enterprise by adventurer Ted Arnold, wild-animal trapper Nat Coleman, and his assistant Omar and, to cover all bases
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-09
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Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Rose of Washington Square
Overview: Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Too Many Winners
Overview: Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-24
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My Dear Secretary
Overview: A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Puppets of Fate
Overview: 'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-10
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Send 'Em Back Half Dead
Overview: 'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-24
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Hollywood or Bust
Overview: The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Aunt Sally
Overview: An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-13
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That Certain Woman
Overview: A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Overview: A female police detective enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Genres: Crime Mystery Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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The Pride of the Force
Overview: This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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I Was a Convict
Overview: In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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Killer Dill
Overview: Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-02
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Secrets of the Underground
Overview: With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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The Awful Sleuth
Overview: Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on, smiling Memphis Mike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-18
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Born Lucky
Overview: A humble girl's rise to fame.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-05
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The Medicine Man
Overview: A young man impersonates a doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Midnight Manhunt
Overview: Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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The Man Who Changed His Name
Overview: A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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The Fire Raisers
Overview: Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Gateway
Overview: Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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The Veils of Bagdad
Overview: Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-06
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Mr. Hex
Overview: Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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At the Stroke of Twelve
Overview: This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Gay Love
Overview: Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Annie, Leave the Room!
Overview: British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Big Splash
Overview: A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Come Out of the Pantry
Overview: A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Death on the Set
Overview: A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-29
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Their Night Out
Overview: An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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Blackmail
Overview: A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-24
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The Fighting Seabees
Overview: Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-27
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Spook Chasers
Overview: Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-02
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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Killers from Space
Overview: Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-23
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Impact
Overview: After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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Tales of Robin Hood
Overview: The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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Hidden Guns
Overview: The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-30
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Big Business
Overview: A Musical film Directed by Oscar M. Sheridan.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-30
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77 Park Lane
Overview: When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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Who Killed Doc Robin?
Overview: A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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His Lordship
Overview: The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-02
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The Innocents of Chicago
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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Men of Boys Town
Overview: Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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The Star Maker
Overview: This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Tin Gods
Overview: A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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Admirals All
Overview: A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Alibi Inn
Overview: A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-28
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Little Orphan Annie
Overview: Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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Buccaneer's Girl
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Straight, Place and Show
Overview: The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Mr. District Attorney
Overview: An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-27
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The Big Sleep
Overview: Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-23
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Tear Gas Squad
Overview: A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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A Song Is Born
Overview: The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-19
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The Man I Love
Overview: Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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All Ashore
Overview: Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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Shadows in the Night
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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Jinx Money
Overview: A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-27
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Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Lady and the Bandit
Overview: Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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The Medium
Overview: A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Sorrowful Jones
Overview: A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Little Miss Broadway
Overview: Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-19
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It's in the Bag!
Overview: The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-21
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The Noose Hangs High
Overview: Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-05
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Tell It to the Judge
Overview: Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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Rhubarb
Overview: Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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The Great Barrier
Overview: The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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Passport to Alcatraz
Overview: George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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Stand by for Action
Overview: U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Genres: Action Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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My True Story
Overview: Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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She Knew What She Wanted
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Overview: During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
Overview: Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Aliens from Space
Overview: A group of extra-terrestrials determined to take over the earth and make it their new home, station themselves in a canyon and set about their task.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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The Threat
Overview: A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Sinbad the Sailor
Overview: Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-13
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