Darby Jones
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: February 21, 1910
Deathday: November 30, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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I Walked with a Zombie
Overview: A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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Tarzan Escapes
Overview: White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
Overview: Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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Zamba
Overview: Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
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White Cargo
Overview: In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-12
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Black Magic
Overview: Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-19
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Virginia
Overview: Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-28
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Broken Strings
Overview: After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Stanley and Livingstone
Overview: When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Kentucky
Overview: Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Safari
Overview: Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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Maryland
Overview: A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Congo Maisie
Overview: Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Sundown
Overview: Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Macomber Affair
Overview: A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-20
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Passport to Suez
Overview: The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Zombies on Broadway
Overview: Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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Sleepy Lagoon
Overview: Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-05
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California
Overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-21
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