Doodles Weaver
Also Known As: Winstead Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon Weaver, Winstead Sheffield Weaver, Winstead S. Weaver, Winstead Weaver, Winstead 'Doodles' Weaver, Doodles Win Weaver, Glendening Winsted Weaver
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Winstead Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon "Doodles" Weaver (May 11, 1912 – January 17, 1983) was an American character actor, comedian, and musician. His mother gave him the nickname "Doodlebug" as a child because of his freckles and big ears. Weaver began his career in radio. In the late 1930s he performed on Rudy Vallée's radio programs and Kraft Music Hall. He later joined Spike Jones' City Slickers. In 1957, Weaver hosted his own variety show, The Doodles Weaver Show, which aired on NBC. In addition to his radio work, he recorded a number of comedy records, appeared in films, and guest starred on numerous television series from the 1950s through the 1970s. Weaver made his last onscreen appearance in 1981. His niece is actress Sigourney Weaver.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: May 11, 1912
Deathday: January 17, 1983
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Gender: Male
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Birds
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
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Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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The Rounders
Overview: Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-08
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The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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Tammy and the Doctor
Overview: Tammy becomes a nurse's aide, works in a hospital, cares for an old rich woman, and causes romantic commotion in the life of Dr. Mark Cheswick.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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The Singing Sheriff
Overview: In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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The Tunnel of Love
Overview: A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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The Nutty Professor
Overview: A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Invitation to Happiness
Overview: An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Overview: A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-14
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Duck Pimples
Overview: Donald has an unpleasant evening when a mysterious book salesman comes to his door then disappears leaving Donald with a collection of whodunnit novels. He reads one and gets so fully involved in it that it appears that the characters are actually coming out of the book and into his living room getting him involved in the murder caper. Finally the author of the book, J. Harold King, steps forth and claims Donald innocent. The characters return to the novel from whence they came leaving Donald wondering if it was really just his "imagination"
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-10
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Come and Get It
Overview: An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Kitty Foyle
Overview: A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Flight at Midnight
Overview: Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Genres: Action Romance Music Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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A Yank at Oxford
Overview: A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Overview: The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain...which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.
Genres: Music Fantasy Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-26
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Hot Rod Gang
Overview: A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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White House Madness
Overview: The Nixon Administration falls apart in a farcical manner in the time of the Watergate Scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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And Now Tomorrow
Overview: Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-22
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Cisco Pike
Overview: A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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Mail Order Bride
Overview: Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-10
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The Rookie
Overview: A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the only new recruit at basic training camp. Military comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Rosie!
Overview: An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Lodge Night
Overview: Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Overview: This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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Behind The Headlines
Overview: A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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The Road to Nashville
Overview: A Hollywood film company wants to make a movie about country music and sends Doodles Weaver to round up talent to appear. A host of then-current country stars perform their hits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-20
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Boy Trouble
Overview: A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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The Wild McCullochs
Overview: A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Winchester '73
Overview: TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Which Way to the Front?
Overview: Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not take "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Swiss Miss
Overview: Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Tennis Racquet
Overview: Two Goofys play a tennis match in typical Goofy style. The announcer sometimes has trouble following the action. The groundskeeper seems to always be present, trimming the grass, filling in holes (in one case with a tree), and delivering the oversized trophy.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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The Zodiac Killer
Overview: The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a cop?
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Hockey Homicide
Overview: A crowd gathers at the skating rink to watch the big championship hockey game of the Pelicans versus the Aardvarks. Although referee "Clean Game" Kinney does his best to supervise, the hockey game really gets out of hand eventually. Two star players, Bertino and Ferguson, are so anxious, they never get let out of the penalty box, referee Kinney is never able to drop the puck without being physically hurt somehow, and the spectators themselves are so worked into the game, they take out their aggression on the ice while the players relax in the bleachers.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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Take a Cue
Overview: Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson, who teaches them in the fine art of playing billiards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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A Ton of Grass Goes to Pot
Overview: A group of friends plan to smuggle a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the US by using a hot-air balloon.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-20
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The Ladies Man
Overview: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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A Tiger Walks
Overview: A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Girl Trouble
Overview: A South American in New York rents the apartment of a socialite who pretends to be his maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Overview: Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Cancel My Reservation
Overview: Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-21
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Li'l Abner
Overview: Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Bigfoot
Overview: Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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Thoroughbreds
Overview: Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his old military mount Sireson. Unfortunately, the father of wealthy socialite Sally Crandall outbids him with plans to train Sireson for a steeplechase race. Sally and Rusty develop a rivalry because she has a favorite horse of her own, but when her horse is hurt she and Rusty declare a truce and begin a romantic relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-23
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Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Truckin' Man
Overview: A young man takes up truck-driving to investigate his trucker father's suspicious death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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Ring of Fire
Overview: In Oregon, two sheriff deputies arrest three teenagers for robbery but are overpowered and taken hostage while forest fires rage all around them.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Quick, Before It Melts
Overview: A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Frontier Gun
Overview: Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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For God and Country
Overview: The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-15
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Macon County Line
Overview: A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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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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Mule Feathers
Overview: A drifter con artist, impersonating a parson, arrives in a small Wild West town with his mule and becomes embroiled in the lives of several townsfolk.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-05
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The Errand Boy
Overview: Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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The Woman I Love
Overview: In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-15
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Duel Personalities
Overview: While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Double Wedding
Overview: A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Kitten with a Whip
Overview: Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Fugitive Lovers
Overview: A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Hold That Co-ed
Overview: An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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Rendezvous in Space
Overview: This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-10
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Hey, Rookie
Overview: Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-06
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Carolina Blues
Overview: When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Sixpack Annie
Overview: A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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