Minerva Urecal
Birthday: 1894-09-20
Place of Birth: Eureka, California, USA
Biography: A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.
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Salty O'Rourke
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse....
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State Fair
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patr...
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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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The Corpse Vanishes
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from...
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The Living Ghost
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie....
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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Lady for a Night
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Double Jeopardy
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackm...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens s...
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A Man Betrayed
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politici...
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Without Reservations
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and beco...
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The Trap
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Three Godfathers
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Niagara
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The Lovable Cheat
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The Lost Moment
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19...
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The Jackpot
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order t...
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Sudden Danger
Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wal...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Pitchin' in the Kitchen
While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework....
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Frontier Scout
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)...
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Murder Among Friends
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy....
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The Raging Tide
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide ...
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A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find ...
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They Stooge to Conga
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Dear Brat
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of ...
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Love on a Bet
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Accent on Love
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The Kid Sister
A madcap comedy about a kid sister who tries to steal her older sister's boyfriend. Her plan involve...
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No Place to Go
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but ...
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match wit...
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Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother....
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Oklahoma Annie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the hear...
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Sweater Girl
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together th...
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Exiled to Shanghai
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in ...
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Family Honeymoon
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina...
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Side Street
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money f...
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Dramatic School
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works...
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no lon...
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Cynthia
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date....
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My Favorite Blonde
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an...
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Louisiana Hayride
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings....
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His Night Out
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he get...
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Prison Nurse
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...
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The Lady in the Morgue
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue....
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She's Back on Broadway
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first ...
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That Other Woman
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her...
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Andy Plays Hookey
Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire....
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Stop That Cab
The trials and tribulations of a cab driver working the night shift, who must put with an assortment...
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The Cowboy and the Blonde
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and ...
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Bachelor Daze
Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the l...
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The Powers Girl
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves compe...
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The Awful Sleuth
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't rec...
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Arkansas Judge
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accu...
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Ever Since Eve
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lechero...
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The Daring Young Man
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he se...
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So This Is Washington
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is ...
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Four Girls in White
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They...
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A Medal for Benny
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is t...
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The Virginian
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve a...
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Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e...
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Here Comes the Band
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...
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Mountain Justice
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej...
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Henry and Dizzy
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the repla...
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Woman They Almost Lynched
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, ...
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from...
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Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...
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Golden Boy
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter...
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Her Husband's Secretary
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary....
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Sitting Pretty
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey...
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Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....
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Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...
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Missing Evidence
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself up...
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Dancing Co-Ed
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his...
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Apache Rose
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are counte...
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San Francisco Docks
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, a...
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Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
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She Loved a Fireman
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman....
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Marty
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but sociall...
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Two Gun Marshal
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film....
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Gobs and Gals
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of the...
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He ...
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Sensation Hunters
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turn...
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship wit...
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The Man in the Trunk
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer....
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Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie ...
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Crazy Knights
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted ho...
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Breakfast in Hollywood
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film deriv...
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Partners in Time
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more imp...
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Dixie Dugan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol...
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the ...
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Boys of the City
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house....
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April Showers
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is...
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City Streets
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" ...
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Holiday in Havana
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita ...
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Bowery Buckaroos
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine pa...
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Voice of the Whistler
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure....
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The Mark of the Whistler
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who t...
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Oh, Doctor
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him....
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The Sagebrush Family Trails West
The story concentrates on a travelling medicine show maintained by Bobby Clark and his relatives Min...
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Moonlight and Cactus
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a...
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Student Tour
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour....
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Man from Frisco
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock t...
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The Ape
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spi...
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No, No, Nanette
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr...
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Master Minds
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip t...
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Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...
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Meet the Baron
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school....
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That Funny Feeling
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City busines...
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Sabotage
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to ...
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Keep 'Em Slugging
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for th...
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Sons of the Pioneers
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv...
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mix...
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Rainbow Over Texas
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express r...
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Sundown in Santa Fe
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left ...
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Marshal of Amarillo
Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. ...
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law an...
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In Old California
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D...
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Outcasts of the Trail
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against t...
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Undercover Maisie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on th...
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Lost in Alaska
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mis...
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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Murder by Invitation
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide...
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One Mysterious Night
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit...
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Good Sam
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them ou...
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a fami...
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wif...
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Golden Hoofs
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol...
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a...
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Life Begins with Love
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, whi...
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Dangerous Blondes
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes ra...
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Quiet Please, Murder
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich...
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Quicksand
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde fem...
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The Devil's Party
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion....
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Men in Her Diary
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, who...
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The Well Groomed Bride
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a ...
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Kid Dynamite
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but j...
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Block Busters
Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Ro...
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Something to Shout About
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway...
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Ghosts on the Loose
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by my...
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Maid to Order
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry...
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Hit the Ice
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r...
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station...
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Take One False Step
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presum...
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A Bell for Adano
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...
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The Noose Hangs High
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick u...
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His Baiting Beauty
Harry has to leave town on a business trip to take part in the opening of a new radio station. Howev...
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California
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but...
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When Strangers Marry
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a m...
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Undercover Maisie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on th...
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A Man Alone
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all th...
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Secret Service Investigator
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing g...
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The Dark Corner
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even tr...
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Hired Husband
The millionairess aunt of Errol's previously married wife is coming to visit, and since the aunt is ...
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to hi...
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kill...
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Heartaches
Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats i...
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Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of ...
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Love in a Bungalow
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautif...
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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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