Conrad Nagel

Conrad Nagel

Birthday: 1897-03-15

Place of Birth: Keokuk, Iowa, USA

Biography: Conrad Nagel was an American stage and film actor, as well as radio and television performer and host. He was a matinee idol and star of the Silent cinema era and beyond. He was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served as its President from 1932 to 1933. He was also a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

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Tin Hats
Tin Hats

Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering o...

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There You Are!
There You Are!

George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter....

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The Kiss
The Kiss

An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man ...

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Prospecting for Petroleum
Prospecting for Petroleum

All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it ...

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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players....

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The Fighting Chance
The Fighting Chance

Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing...

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All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit...

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The Vicious Circle
The Vicious Circle

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby propertie...

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Ann Vickers
Ann Vickers

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. Sh...

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The Divorcee
The Divorcee

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind....

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Wedding Present
Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...

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East Lynne
East Lynne

The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships...

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Kongo
Kongo

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, throug...

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Hidden Fear
Hidden Fear

A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder....

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Dance Madness
Dance Madness

May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his...

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Adventures of Rusty
Adventures of Rusty

Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's a...

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The Ordeal
The Ordeal

Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled s...

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The Mysterious Lady
The Mysterious Lady

A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When s...

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Stage Struck
Stage Struck

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency....

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The Thirteenth Chair
The Thirteenth Chair

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his...

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Divorce In The Family
Divorce In The Family

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama ...

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The Bad Sister
The Bad Sister

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsemen...

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The Reckless Hour
The Reckless Hour

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to dete...

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The Constant Woman
The Constant Woman

A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out a...

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The Marines Are Coming
The Marines Are Coming

Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is ...

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The Pagan Lady
The Pagan Lady

Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a ...

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Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide....

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Son of India
Son of India

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude....

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Glorious Betsy
Glorious Betsy

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Si...

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Redemption
Redemption

In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and ma...

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Hell Divers
Hell Divers

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land....

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Dynamite
Dynamite

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is ter...

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One Romantic Night
One Romantic Night

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince....

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Numbered Men
Numbered Men

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinald...

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The Waning Sex
The Waning Sex

Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the Distri...

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Bank Alarm
Bank Alarm

A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister....

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Yellow Cargo
Yellow Cargo

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling A...

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Lawful Larceny
Lawful Larceny

During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling ho...

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Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love

Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some k...

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The Right of Way
The Right of Way

Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the sam...

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on...

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Sun-Up
Sun-Up

When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter a...

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I Want a Divorce
I Want a Divorce

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake....

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The Man Who Understood Women
The Man Who Understood Women

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems....

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The Gold Racket
The Gold Racket

At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gan...

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Navy Spy
Navy Spy

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientis...

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A Stranger in My Arms
A Stranger in My Arms

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow....

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The Ship from Shanghai
The Ship from Shanghai

On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward,...

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Fast Life
Fast Life

Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spar...

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Three Who Loved
Three Who Loved

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling....

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Name the Man
Name the Man

Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes in...

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The Idle Rich
The Idle Rich

Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her famil...

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A Lady Surrenders
A Lady Surrenders

A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean ...

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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...

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A Trip to Paramountown
A Trip to Paramountown

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...

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The Exquisite Sinner
The Exquisite Sinner

Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsake...

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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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The Lost Romance
The Lost Romance

Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by stag...

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Nice People
Nice People

Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a stor...

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Midsummer Madness
Midsummer Madness

Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels ...

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Today
Today

A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like ev...

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Saturday Night
Saturday Night

Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t...

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The Michigan Kid
The Michigan Kid

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to h...

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Three Weeks
Three Weeks

A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks....

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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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London After Midnight
London After Midnight

A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midni...

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London After Midnight
London After Midnight

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to li...

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One New York Night
One New York Night

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room ...

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Unseen Forces
Unseen Forces

In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psych...

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The Only Thing
The Only Thing

Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution ...

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That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment!

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...

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The Man Called Back
The Man Called Back

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey da...

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Quality Street
Quality Street

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. ...

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The Girl from Mandalay
The Girl from Mandalay

John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Fost...

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Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no r...

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The Rejected Woman
The Rejected Woman

Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped...

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Forever Yours
Forever Yours

A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will he...

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna

Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. ...

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The Fatal Impulse
The Fatal Impulse

A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a...

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One Million B.C.
One Million B.C.

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by Unite...

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Lights of Old Broadway
Lights of Old Broadway

Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them b...

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The Voice of Hollywood
The Voice of Hollywood

The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Land...

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Caught in the Fog
Caught in the Fog

Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a...

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State Street Sadie
State Street Sadie

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank ro...

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Pretty Ladies
Pretty Ladies

Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit ...

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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Life in Hollywood No. 7

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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The Terror
The Terror

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror"....

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The Redeeming Sin
The Redeeming Sin

The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound ef...

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Kid Gloves
Kid Gloves

When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker K...

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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Du Barry, Woman of Passion

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...

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Ball at Savoy
Ball at Savoy

A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes....

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The Snob
The Snob

Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and so...

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One Hour Late
One Hour Late

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose ...

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Singed Wings
Singed Wings

Spanish dancer Bonita della Guerda has a dream in which she is killed by a jester after declaring he...

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Slightly Used
Slightly Used

Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she in...

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The Girl from Chicago
The Girl from Chicago

Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, ...

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What Every Woman Knows
What Every Woman Knows

Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and poli...

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Free Love
Free Love

A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divor...

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Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth

Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marci...

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Memory Lane
Memory Lane

Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Pro...

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Diamond Handcuffs
Diamond Handcuffs

In South Africa, a worker in a diamond mine is sentenced to death for stealing a huge diamond he fou...

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Second Wife
Second Wife

A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be ...

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If I Were Single
If I Were Single

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and ...

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Married Flirts
Married Flirts

Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. J...

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Little Women
Little Women

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War....

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Cheaper to Marry
Cheaper to Marry

Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partn...

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The Mad Empress
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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Fool's Paradise
Fool's Paradise

In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves th...

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Dangerous Journey
Dangerous Journey

Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to i...

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The Sacred Flame
The Sacred Flame

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediat...

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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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So This Is Marriage?
So This Is Marriage?

After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconcili...

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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when...

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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed

In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being a...

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The Rendezvous
The Rendezvous

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Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing

Route 66 Halloween Special...

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Redhead
Redhead

Rich Matthew Thurlow, spends nearly every night at cabarets, admires Dazie, a leading dancer whom he...

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Red Wine
Red Wine

Charles Cook, a husband with a multi-year itch, decides he will go out and whoop it up with the boys...

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The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse

John Burkett Ryder, "the richest man in the world," determines to discredit a judicial decision whic...

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Hate
Hate

Gamblers Dave Hume and Ed Felton are rivals for the love of Babe Lennox, a chorus girl. Hume informs...

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