Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

Birthday: 1884-08-20

Place of Birth: Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography: Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

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She Got What She Wanted
She Got What She Wanted

Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the s...

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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has...

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Revenue Agent
Revenue Agent

Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bell...

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Love Is News
Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...

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That's My Baby
That's My Baby

On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has ...

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Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she prov...

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Soft Cushions
Soft Cushions

Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas...

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The Yankee Consul
The Yankee Consul

A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!...

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Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ...

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Subway Express
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 Donovan Affair
The Donovan Affair

Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney....

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Lights Out
Lights Out

Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is ...

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One Frightened Night
One Frightened Night

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his mo...

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Moving Vanities
Moving Vanities

Leon Errol moves because of a rent increase....

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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Alias Jimmy Valentine

The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surp...

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The Empty Cab
The Empty Cab

Henry Egbert Xerxes' big chance as a cub reporter comes when he is assigned to track down a gang of ...

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Friendly Enemies
Friendly Enemies

As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale s...

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The Iceman's Ball
The Iceman's Ball

Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to...

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Frontier Days
Frontier Days

U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis....

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Deserted at the Altar
Deserted at the Altar

Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squi...

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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on ...

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One Clear Call
One Clear Call

An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend...

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Lovebound
Lovebound

Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mob...

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Jewish Prudence
Jewish Prudence

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his ...

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The Crime Doctor
The Crime Doctor

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and...

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Counter-Espionage
Counter-Espionage

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing....

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So You Want a Raise
So You Want a Raise

Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run t...

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Roaring Guns
Roaring Guns

Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their...

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Trial by Trigger
Trial by Trigger

California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Da...

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Storm Warning
Storm Warning

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Kla...

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Hiss and Yell
Hiss and Yell

Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebear...

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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder....

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Tall Man Riding
Tall Man Riding

Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and br...

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Northern Pursuit
Northern Pursuit

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escape...

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Springfield Rifle
Springfield Rifle

Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go ...

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The Silver Chalice
The Silver Chalice

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa...

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Saratoga Trunk
Saratoga Trunk

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces ...

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Manslaughter
Manslaughter

Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto...

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Colorado Territory
Colorado Territory

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last...

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The Last Card
The Last Card

Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, To...

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The Honor of an Outlaw
The Honor of an Outlaw

A reformed outlaw give up the girl because of his past....

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So You Think You're Not Guilty
So You Think You're Not Guilty

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setba...

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If a Body Meets a Body
If a Body Meets a Body

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansio...

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If I Had a Million
If I Had a Million

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...

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Discarded Lovers
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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Murder in the Big House
Murder in the Big House

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells s...

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Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers....

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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Seven Keys to Baldpate

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate ...

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Super-Sleuth
Super-Sleuth

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-li...

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That I May Live
That I May Live

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years i...

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Danger Ahead
Danger Ahead

Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. ...

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Scarlet Pages
Scarlet Pages

Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her car...

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The Moth
The Moth

Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid ...

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Lightning Strikes Twice
Lightning Strikes Twice

An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recentl...

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Arms and the Gringo
Arms and the Gringo

Romantic political drama set in Mexico that costarred Dorothy Gish and Wallace Reid....

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Murder on the Waterfront
Murder on the Waterfront

A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation....

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To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The...

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Lucky Me
Lucky Me

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy ...

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Christmas in Connecticut
Christmas in Connecticut

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi...

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The Little Red Schoolhouse
The Little Red Schoolhouse

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse p...

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Say It with Babies
Say It with Babies

Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provi...

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The Wright Idea
The Wright Idea

A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him...

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Backfire
Backfire

When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy S...

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Illegal
Illegal

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...

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Side Show
Side Show

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps....

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The Crime of the Century
The Crime of the Century

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a per...

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Love in High Gear
Love in High Gear

A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the s...

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Atlantic Adventure
Atlantic Adventure

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is wo...

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Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Strictly Fresh Yeggs

After spending the night out drinking, a man tries to find his way home, but can't quite get there....

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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's pack...

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The Woman Racket
The Woman Racket

During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although s...

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My Favorite Blonde
My Favorite Blonde

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an...

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A Notorious Gentleman
A Notorious Gentleman

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder....

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A Gem of a Jam
A Gem of a Jam

The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arr...

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Road to Paradise
Road to Paradise

Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels...

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The Girl Said No
The Girl Said No

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams...

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Wide Open
Wide Open

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment....

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Don't Shoot
Don't Shoot

Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine...

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Guilty as Hell
Guilty as Hell

Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. ...

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Westbound
Westbound

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known batt...

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Silent Sandy
Silent Sandy

Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry he...

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Death Flies East
Death Flies East

Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decid...

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Andy Plays Hookey
Andy Plays Hookey

Andy makes elaborate plans to attend a prizefight, and they all backfire....

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Lady Gangster
Lady Gangster

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery...

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Tiny Troubles
Tiny Troubles

Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal...

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The Silk Lined Burglar
The Silk Lined Burglar

Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, wh...

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Larceny, Inc.
Larceny, Inc.

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d...

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There Are No Villains
There Are No Villains

In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence again...

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The Yellow Dog
The Yellow Dog

In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sym...

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Bullet Scars
Bullet Scars

Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madi...

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The Faker
The Faker

Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and as...

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Tenderloin
Tenderloin

Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships a...

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Hot Money
Hot Money

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap....

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Harold Teen
Harold Teen

Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirite...

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X Marks the Spot
X Marks the Spot

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police office...

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At Sea Ashore
At Sea Ashore

Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's t...

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Souls for Sale
Souls for Sale

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star....

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Red Haired Alibi
Red Haired Alibi

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the...

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Detour to Danger
Detour to Danger

Two young men set out on a fishing trip. They run into a gang of criminals who are menacing two youn...

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Room for One More
Room for One More

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce...

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The Night Hawk
The Night Hawk

Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enoug...

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I'll Be Suing You
I'll Be Suing You

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobil...

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Love and Hisses
Love and Hisses

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch...

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Night Spot
Night Spot

A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two...

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Josette
Josette

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the ...

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I'll Tell the World
I'll Tell the World

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo...

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While the City Sleeps
While the City Sleeps

A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi ...

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Tell No Tales
Tell No Tales

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save ...

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Everybody's Doing It
Everybody's Doing It

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspap...

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The Enforcer
The Enforcer

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a sol...

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Scandal Sheet
Scandal Sheet

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story abou...

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Going Wild
Going Wild

Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and...

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Captain Fly-by-Night
Captain Fly-by-Night

First one stranger, then another, arrive at the presidio, each with a government pass and each claim...

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The Gorilla
The Gorilla

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders....

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A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle ...

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Only Saps Work
Only Saps Work

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based...

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King of the Jungle
King of the Jungle

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilizati...

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The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour

An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world....

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Rough Riders' Round-up
Rough Riders' Round-up

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a loc...

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Charlie Chan in Reno
Charlie Chan in Reno

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murde...

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The Lady Escapes
The Lady Escapes

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro...

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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Ariz...

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Chicken Wagon Family
Chicken Wagon Family

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor...

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Quiet Please!
Quiet Please!

In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot ...

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The Uneasy Three
The Uneasy Three

Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) h...

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O. Henry's Full House
O. Henry's Full House

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the...

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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love....

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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a m...

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The Lone Wolf Strikes
The Lone Wolf Strikes

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf....

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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf ke...

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Mutiny in the County
Mutiny in the County

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy....

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Outlaw's Son
Outlaw's Son

Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature....

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...

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Crime Wave
Crime Wave

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out fo...

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Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

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Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Here Comes Mr. Zerk

Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic....

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Little Annie Rooney
Little Annie Rooney

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city...

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Snooper Service
Snooper Service

Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl....

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Crime by Night
Crime by Night

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....

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Sailor's Luck
Sailor's Luck

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promise...

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High Tension
High Tension

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want h...

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Time Out for Romance
Time Out for Romance

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l...

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Rough Necking
Rough Necking

The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him i...

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Atta Boy
Atta Boy

Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery....

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Wrong Again
Wrong Again

Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two ...

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Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed....

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Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...

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Huddle
Huddle

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...

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Misbehaving Husbands
Misbehaving Husbands

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman"....

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Horses' Collars
Horses' Collars

The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad g...

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One Mile from Heaven
One Mile from Heaven

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by w...

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Gentleman Jim
Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzli...

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The Golden Fleecing
The Golden Fleecing

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters....

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Mr. Skeffington
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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The Green Archer
The Green Archer

The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the w...

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At the Stroke of Twelve
At the Stroke of Twelve

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "...

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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
So You Want to Hold Your Husband

Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor...

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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Thank Your Lucky Stars

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....

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Yoo-Hoo
Yoo-Hoo

James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up....

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Paths to Paradise
Paths to Paradise

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown...

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The Damned Don't Cry
The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

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Never Say Goodbye
Never Say Goodbye

Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un...

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Big Business
Big Business

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil...

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Diamond Jim
Diamond Jim

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....

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The Witness Chair
The Witness Chair

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker...

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Seven Sinners
Seven Sinners

Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch eac...

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Invisible Ghost
Invisible Ghost

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him....

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Bromo and Juliet
Bromo and Juliet

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his ...

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Carnival
Carnival

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves...

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Crazy Like a Fox
Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Wild Bill Hickok Rides

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....

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They Died with Their Boots On
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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On Trial
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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Naughty Baby
Naughty Baby

A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich....

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How DOooo You Do
How DOooo You Do

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert ...

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Food and Magic
Food and Magic

A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both...

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Slave Ship
Slave Ship

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...

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Straight, Place and Show
Straight, Place and Show

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match ...

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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Mexican Spitfire Out West

Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His h...

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Angel's Holiday
Angel's Holiday

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes invo...

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Clock Wise
Clock Wise

Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy....

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Mr. District Attorney
Mr. District Attorney

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....

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Pacific Blackout
Pacific Blackout

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U...

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Spy Ship
Spy Ship

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to br...

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High School
High School

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new su...

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I Was Framed
I Was Framed

A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later....

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The Last Warning
The Last Warning

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a...

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Young Donovan's Kid
Young Donovan's Kid

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children....

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Berth Quakes
Berth Quakes

Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories see...

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Dear! Deer!
Dear! Deer!

Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting...

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One Dangerous Night
One Dangerous Night

Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three s...

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Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...

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So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses....

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A Woman of Affairs
A Woman of Affairs

Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Nevill...

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Borrowing Trouble
Borrowing Trouble

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l...

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Safety in Numbers
Safety in Numbers

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d...

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Down on the Farm
Down on the Farm

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest....

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Too Busy to Work
Too Busy to Work

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run...

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True to Life
True to Life

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents ...

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Old Acquaintance
Old Acquaintance

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives....

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The Unfaithful
The Unfaithful

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defen...

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Three Strangers
Three Strangers

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy phila...

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The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair w...

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Boys Will Be Boys
Boys Will Be Boys

Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young l...

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A Society Sensation
A Society Sensation

A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot ...

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The Inspector General
The Inspector General

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a ...

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So You Want to Play the Horses
So You Want to Play the Horses

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winni...

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Among the Missing
Among the Missing

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and yo...

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Make Your Own Bed
Make Your Own Bed

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires ...

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The Third Degree
The Third Degree

Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. ...

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Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the ...

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The Thirteenth Hour
The Thirteenth Hour

A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder....

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Homicide
Homicide

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the cas...

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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...

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The Song of Life
The Song of Life

A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an ...

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My Six Convicts
My Six Convicts

A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the tr...

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The Naughty Flirt
The Naughty Flirt

A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must a...

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She Had to Eat
She Had to Eat

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to...

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The Noose Hangs High
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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The 13th Juror
The 13th Juror

A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anth...

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The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwester...

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Serenade
Serenade

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make ...

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Puppets of Fate
Puppets of Fate

Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his...

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So You Want to Know Your Relatives
So You Want to Know Your Relatives

Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many...

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School for Girls
School for Girls

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered...

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The Light of Victory
The Light of Victory

U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ra...

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Goodbye, My Fancy
Goodbye, My Fancy

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a stu...

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In This Our Life
In This Our Life

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l...

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The Flame and the Arrow
The Flame and the Arrow

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as th...

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Shopping with Wifie
Shopping with Wifie

A comedy short....

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So You Want to Enjoy Life
So You Want to Enjoy Life

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest ...

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Private Number
Private Number

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi...

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Wild and Woolly
Wild and Woolly

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Se...

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So You Want an Apartment
So You Want an Apartment

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting....

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Come Out Fighting
Come Out Fighting

The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son....

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The Garden Murder Case
The Garden Murder Case

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance susp...

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Men Without Law
Men Without Law

Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble....

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Excuse Me
Excuse Me

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them....

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Beloved
Beloved

Story about four generations in a family of musicians....

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A Left Hook
A Left Hook

Adele is courted by Algernon, a delicate young man. They attend a boxing exhibition, and Adele becom...

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The Lawful Cheater
The Lawful Cheater

Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow pat...

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The Sagebrush Troubadour
The Sagebrush Troubadour

Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is ...

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The Public Menace
The Public Menace

1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass...

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The Strange Mr. Gregory
The Strange Mr. Gregory

The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then rea...

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Many Sappy Returns
Many Sappy Returns

Charley mistakes a lunatic as the father of the girl he's interested in....

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One Foot in Heaven
One Foot in Heaven

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another....

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Dog Shy
Dog Shy

Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid ge...

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The Fire Flingers
The Fire Flingers

A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife pre...

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Murder on the Roof
Murder on the Roof

This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) ...

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The Mystery Pilot
The Mystery Pilot

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Bag and Baggage
Bag and Baggage

Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft...

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Smiling Irish Eyes
Smiling Irish Eyes

A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway f...

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There Ain't No Santa Claus
There Ain't No Santa Claus

Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord No...

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Nora Prentiss
Nora Prentiss

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree...

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Night and Day
Night and Day

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he ...

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So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Joe wants to be a muscle man....

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Murder Without Tears
Murder Without Tears

A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it....

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So You Want to Be an Actor
So You Want to Be an Actor

Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees a...

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The Man I Love
The Man I Love

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, ...

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So You Think You Can't Sleep
So You Think You Can't Sleep

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia....

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So You Want to Be a Musician
So You Want to Be a Musician

Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument....

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Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...

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Speak Easily
Speak Easily

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical....

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Orchids and Ermine
Orchids and Ermine

Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams ...

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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

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South of Suva
South of Suva

Phyllis Latimer goes to Fiji to rejoin her husband of three years and finds him in a state of drunke...

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Plastered in Paris
Plastered in Paris

A Harem Scarum Comedy of two Clowns in a Desert Amidst a Bevy of Harem Beauties. It's a Wow and How!...

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Shine on Harvest Moon
Shine on Harvest Moon

Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth....

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Youth and Adventure
Youth and Adventure

Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six m...

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Carson City
Carson City

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires...

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Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his hench...

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Riding Shotgun
Riding Shotgun

When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mi...

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Held by the Law
Held by the Law

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Silver River
Silver River

Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be use...

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The Bowery
The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...

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The Helen Morgan Story
The Helen Morgan Story

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to al...

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The Off-Shore Pirate
The Off-Shore Pirate

Wealthy society girl Ardita Farnam is held up in her roadster by two thugs and is rescued by Nevkova...

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The Match-Breaker
The Match-Breaker

Jane Morgan, to avoid marrying family lawyer Richard Van Loytor, takes her maid, Murray, and leaves ...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance....

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