Murray Alper

Murray Alper

Birthday: 1904-01-11

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Murray Alper (January 11, 1904 – November 16, 1984) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous television series, films, and Broadway productions.

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Manpower
Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...

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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...

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Las Vegas Shakedown
Las Vegas Shakedown

A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster....

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The Outlaws Is Coming
The Outlaws Is Coming

Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy...

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The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...

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Jungle Gents
Jungle Gents

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys ar...

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Appointment with Danger
Appointment with Danger

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar...

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The Gangster
The Gangster

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sulliva...

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Jail Busters
Jail Busters

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story....

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Security Risk
Security Risk

An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operati...

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On the Town
On the Town

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City....

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Lost Continent
Lost Continent

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are ...

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The Horn Blows at Midnight
The Horn Blows at Midnight

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an ...

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Slippy McGee
Slippy McGee

A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest....

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Highway Dragnet
Highway Dragnet

An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, ...

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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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Hers to Hold
Hers to Hold

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" film...

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The Big Shot
The Big Shot

Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth co...

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After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an...

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Wife to Spare
Wife to Spare

Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with ...

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The Phantom Thief
The Phantom Thief

Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy...

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Navy Bound
Navy Bound

A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's bus...

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The Night of Nights
The Night of Nights

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...

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God Is My Co-Pilot
God Is My Co-Pilot

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds him...

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The Arkansas Traveler
The Arkansas Traveler

The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, ...

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Let's Go Navy!
Let's Go Navy!

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors....

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Down Mexico Way
Down Mexico Way

Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", t...

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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conques...

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Sea Devils
Sea Devils

Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of...

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Panic on the Air
Panic on the Air

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that...

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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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Gasoline Alley
Gasoline Alley

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip....

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Here Come the Marines
Here Come the Marines

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sac...

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Tanganyika
Tanganyika

A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escap...

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23 1/2 Hours Leave
23 1/2 Hours Leave

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding...

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Escape by Night
Escape by Night

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight....

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Next Time I Marry
Next Time I Marry

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H...

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Married Bachelor
Married Bachelor

A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book a...

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The Eve of St. Mark
The Eve of St. Mark

Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first...

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Gallant Bess
Gallant Bess

Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues dur...

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Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night....

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Sleep, My Love
Sleep, My Love

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got the...

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Stop, Look and Love
Stop, Look and Love

Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding fath...

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The Big Tip Off
The Big Tip Off

A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities....

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You Can't Buy Luck
You Can't Buy Luck

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him in...

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Young Dr. Kildare
Young Dr. Kildare

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo...

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Cocoanut Grove
Cocoanut Grove

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub....

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Lullaby of Broadway
Lullaby of Broadway

Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to s...

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Gold Diggers in Paris
Gold Diggers in Paris

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite th...

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Turnabout
Turnabout

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the...

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Two in Revolt
Two in Revolt

A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging ...

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Honeymoon Ahead
Honeymoon Ahead

When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in....

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Manhattan Heartbeat
Manhattan Heartbeat

A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When...

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King of the Underworld
King of the Underworld

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i...

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The Great Man Votes
The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize ...

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Tail Spin
Tail Spin

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, ...

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Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful m...

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Rose of Washington Square
Rose of Washington Square

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de...

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It's a Wonderful World
It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...

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Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a ...

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Bachelor Mother
Bachelor Mother

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo...

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The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...

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Spies and Guys
Spies and Guys

Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is...

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Black Friday
Black Friday

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him w...

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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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Behind Southern Lines
Behind Southern Lines

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

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Army Bound
Army Bound

Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tig...

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Submarine Patrol
Submarine Patrol

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m...

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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abd...

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Free For All
Free For All

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young invent...

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The Big Mouth
The Big Mouth

A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertentl...

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Air Force
Air Force

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and ...

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The Long Night
The Long Night

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there...

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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Blondie Has Servant Trouble

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr...

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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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Slightly Scarlet
Slightly Scarlet

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to ...

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Little Big Shot
Little Big Shot

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter....

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Big Town Girl
Big Town Girl

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske...

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The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation....

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Walk on the Wild Side
Walk on the Wild Side

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam...

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Hands Across the Table
Hands Across the Table

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love....

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Moonlight and Cactus
Moonlight and Cactus

The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a...

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Sergeant York
Sergeant York

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...

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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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East of the River
East of the River

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co...

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My Favorite Wife
My Favorite Wife

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her hu...

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Blonde Dynamite
Blonde Dynamite

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a gro...

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Lucky Partners
Lucky Partners

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results....

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The Gay Sisters
The Gay Sisters

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married....

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The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of con...

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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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Vice Squad
Vice Squad

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbe...

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No Time for Love
No Time for Love

An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel ...

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The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suav...

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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great ...

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The Royal Family of Broadway
The Royal Family of Broadway

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues a...

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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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Saboteur
Saboteur

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta...

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Trouble Along the Way
Trouble Along the Way

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams fi...

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Mug Town
Mug Town

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr...

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The Steel Fist
The Steel Fist

In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities....

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Up Goes Maisie
Up Goes Maisie

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas....

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Tricky Dicks
Tricky Dicks

The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian org...

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Border City Rustlers
Border City Rustlers

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

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Dangerously They Live
Dangerously They Live

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents....

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Something for the Boys
Something for the Boys

The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge...

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My Life with Caroline
My Life with Caroline

A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him....

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Gambling on the High Seas
Gambling on the High Seas

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justic...

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Lady Be Careful
Lady Be Careful

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware retu...

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Double Alibi
Double Alibi

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....

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Powder Town
Powder Town

Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret fo...

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My Favorite Spy
My Favorite Spy

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss...

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Obliging Young Lady
Obliging Young Lady

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...

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They Were Expendable
They Were Expendable

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat...

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Affectionately Yours
Affectionately Yours

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to ...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood ...

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Bombardier
Bombardier

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U...

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Corvette K-225
Corvette K-225

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....

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Let's Live a Little
Let's Live a Little

A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a s...

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Larceny with Music
Larceny with Music

A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages ...

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Torture Money
Torture Money

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil...

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Escape from Crime
Escape from Crime

Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble....

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Angel on My Shoulder
Angel on My Shoulder

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up f...

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Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly

This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparati...

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Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs

In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pil...

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Twelve Crowded Hours
Twelve Crowded Hours

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders....

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The Lady Is Willing
The Lady Is Willing

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...

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Sailor's Lady
Sailor's Lady

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose...

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The Hard Way
The Hard Way

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...

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Jalopy
Jalopy

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning u...

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Calypso Joe
Calypso Joe

Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in ...

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The Girl Habit
The Girl Habit

A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him....

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Swing Fever
Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers....

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The Power of the Whistler
The Power of the Whistler

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then ...

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The Big Guy
The Big Guy

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death pe...

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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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Women's Prison
Women's Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....

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Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...

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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...

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Murder on a Bridle Path
Murder on a Bridle Path

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper...

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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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