Jason Robards Sr.
Birthday: 1892-12-30
Place of Birth: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
Biography: Famed American stage actor. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Appeared in many films, initially as a leading man, then in character roles and occasional bits. Consistently billed as Jason Robards, as his more famous son, Jason Robards, did not come into fame until the end of the elder Robards' career. Only referred to as Jason Robards Sr. in retrospect. Died in 1963, having lived to see his namesake son and grandson (Jason Robards III) carry on the family acting tradition.
Movies
Isle of the Dead
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If t...
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Bedlam
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy w...
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Dynamite
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at o...
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the sc...
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac....
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...
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Riff-Raff
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while ...
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Impact
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime...
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Subway Express
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a...
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The Super Snooper
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might ...
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Betrayal from the East
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal....
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The Second Woman
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coa...
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The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try ...
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The Falcon's Alibi
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels....
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The Falcon's Adventure
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder....
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Shed No Tears
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance pol...
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The Fighting Marines
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for th...
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The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d...
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Caught Plastered
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming ...
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Mademoiselle Fifi
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with...
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Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh...
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The Fatal Hour
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspe...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou...
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Damaged Lives
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease....
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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San Antonio Rose
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The M...
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Thunder Mountain
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud sti...
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A Game of Death
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the ma...
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Post Office Investigator
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang....
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Discarded Lovers
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting t...
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Klondike
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient ...
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Wild Horse Mesa
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking ...
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A Strange Adventure
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded kill...
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Return of the Bad Men
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws....
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Ladies Crave Excitement
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures....
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The Miracle Rider
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his...
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The Woman Condemned
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman di...
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Footloose Widows
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Sm...
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The Pride of the Legion
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a ...
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Public Stenographer
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle....
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Trapped
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Det...
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The Land of Hope
On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabino...
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Irish Hearts
Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, ...
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Carnival Lady
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Dep...
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Unholy Love
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been ...
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Docks of San Francisco
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by he...
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Sweetheart of the Navy
Singer Joan Whitney, called the "Sweetheart of the Navy" by sailors, is struggling to re-open the Sn...
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Clipped Wings
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Cana...
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Crimson Romance
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria...
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The Conquerors
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire....
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The Bamboo Blonde
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her...
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Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...
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Peacock Alley
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him b...
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Slightly Married
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for pros...
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Gangs of Chicago
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th...
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Fighting Father Dunne
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....
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Ding Dong Williams
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion p...
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Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha...
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich o...
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I Love You Again
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love...
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Ex-Bad Boy
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his sma...
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Woman Unafraid
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mo...
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Jaws of Steel
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has und...
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Traffic with the Devil
This "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as describ...
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Follow That Music
Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York....
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Vogues of 1938
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis...
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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is ...
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Western Heritage
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, ...
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for th...
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Employees' Entrance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thin...
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Zorro's Fighting Legion
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the go...
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The Long Shot
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thorough...
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Mystery Plane
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents....
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Juarez
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f...
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Stunt Pilot
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Unive...
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Take the Stand
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets...
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Sky Patrol
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-...
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings in...
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Deadline at Dawn
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m...
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South of Death Valley
When Steve Downey arrives to reopen his brother-in-law's gold mine, he finds a war between the ranch...
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Rimfire
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost....
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchel...
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Alaska Patrol
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he trie...
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The Judge Steps Out
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook....
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and severa...
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Born to Kill
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getti...
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A Likely Story
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself t...
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Code of the West
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in tim...
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Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence...
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Bermuda Mystery
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week....
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The Law of the Tong
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese...
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Cipher Bureau
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gan...
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Ship of Wanted Men
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws...
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Salvation Nell
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries...
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Lightnin'
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing w...
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Range War
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing i...
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Radio Hams
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows airc...
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Massacre River
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles....
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians....
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If You Knew Susie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, e...
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Half a Sinner
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to...
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Tracked by the Police
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or sto...
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The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex...
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Criminal Court
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nig...
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Smoky Mountain Melody
Country-western favorite Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys star in the Columbia musical western ...
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Corruption
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for...
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The Gamblers
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doe...
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All of Me
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend does...
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Horsemen of the Sierras
When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin ...
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Guns of Hate
Ben Jason has found a lost gold mine. When Morgan learns this, he and his henchman chase down Jason ...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for...
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The Death Ship
On a stormy night at sea, a Captain and the First Mate talk about the girl that they are both in lov...
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Trifles
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband,...
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Scouts to the Rescue
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's ...
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Son of God’s Country
Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows ...
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Silver Queen
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h...
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The Kansan
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital...
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San Francisco
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo...
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Zombies on Broadway
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss...
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On Trial
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful...
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Vacation in Reno
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce ...
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The Jazz Cinderella
Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed...
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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White Eagle
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his ...
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Break of Hearts
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music t...
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Trial Marriage
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness...
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Stella Maris
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of ...
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Banjo
Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she's...
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Paris
Irène Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy And...
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I'll Take Milk
Rita informs Leon that, as a lark, he stole a valuable necklace at a dinner party the night before a...
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Torture Money
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil...
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The Falcon in San Francisco
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl ...
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The Third Degree
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. ...
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The Heart of Maryland
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son ...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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Badman's Territory
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a...
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Wild Geese
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past I...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Leon suspects something between his wife (Dorothy Granger) - talk about the pot calling the kettle b...
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The Way to Love
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved c...
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The Mad Empress
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I ...
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The Gilded Lily
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone...
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Do or Diet
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-...
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Step by Step
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day o...
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome...
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The Cohens and Kellys
Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerhe...
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White Flannels
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank...
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Wild in the Country
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pu...
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Western Pacific Agent
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder vic...
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The Threat
A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars....
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Feudin' Rhythm
Eddy Arnold, singing star of the Ace Lucky radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a te...
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Masked Raiders
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizin...
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The Flying Marine
Released in both a silent and a sound version: Mitch Moran, a veteran WWI pilot and now a commercial...
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The Isle of Lost Ships
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitap...
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The Devil's Mate
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name...
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Crazy That Way
Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearanc...
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Dick Tracy
Detective Tracy rescues Tess Trueheart and Junior from a killer called Splitface....
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being mar...
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Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o...
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Laughing at Trouble
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ...
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Johnny Angel
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death....
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Music in Manhattan
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th...
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Let's Go Stepping
Leon (Leon Errol) wants to spend quiet evenings at home but his wife, Dorothy (Dorothy Granger) want...
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What, No Cigarettes
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and relucta...
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Polly of the Movies
A small town girl goes to Hollywood with ambitions of becoming major dramatic star. However, the mel...
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Sisters
In spite of her best efforts, a Manhattan model falls in love with a country-hick census taker, whil...
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Some Mother's Boy
When two young tearaways are fleeing from the scene of a crime one is shot and the other escapes. He...
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