Frank Faylen
Birthday: 1905-12-08
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: Frank Faylen (born Francis Charles Ruf) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered for his movie performances as the cynical male nurse in The Lost Weekend (1945) and Ernie the taxi driver in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), as well as for his portrayal of long-suffering grocer Herbert T. Gillis on the 1950s television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
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It's a Wonderful Life
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...
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When the Boys Meet the Girls
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees....
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Detective Story
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad....
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The Reluctant Dragon
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gent...
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You Came Along
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chapero...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...
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Road to Rio
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio,...
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The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de...
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The Sniper
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their...
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Come Live with Me
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writ...
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Riot in Cell Block 11
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ...
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The Lost Weekend
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... b...
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Terror at Midnight
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves....
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Blood on the Moon
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispu...
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99 River Street
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel t...
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7th Cavalry
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Hor...
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The Lusty Men
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the...
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Funny Girl
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York,...
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The Blue Dahlia
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem...
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The Nevadan
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher....
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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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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...
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They Won't Forget
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration D...
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The Canterville Ghost
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage wh...
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Away All Boats
The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-19...
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Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid...
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Fourteen Hours
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to...
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Blue Skies
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numb...
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Hangman's Knot
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted...
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To Each His Own
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. ...
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Whispering Ghosts
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murd...
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Thunder Afloat
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I....
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a b...
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The McConnell Story
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It...
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My Favorite Spy
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy....
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Copper Canyon
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lan...
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North to Alaska
After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fia...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...
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Address Unknown
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted t...
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California
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but...
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San Quentin
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlf...
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instr...
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The Perils of Pauline
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a de...
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Curtain Call
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in ...
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The Affairs of Susan
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three form...
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The Looters
A rescue team is dispatched to look for the survivors of a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies. They...
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Dino
A juvenile delinquent on parole receives support from a social worker and a girl from a slum....
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The Pride of the Yankees
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig....
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Fluffy
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, includi...
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The Lone Gun
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. ...
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Passage West
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murdere...
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Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a ...
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Standing Room Only
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the...
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No Place to Go
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but ...
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter'...
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Three Brave Men
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs....
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Everything But the Truth
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school...
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And the Angels Sing
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing t...
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Welcome Stranger
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and yo...
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Across the Pacific
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart...
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The Monkey's Uncle
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, t...
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Two Years Before the Mast
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaie...
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Married and in Love
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into ...
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Let's Go Collegiate
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing...
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of ...
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Somewhere I'll Find You
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east...
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Blame It on Love
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges....
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Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?
Thirty-minute reunion of the classic series that includes Bob Denver and title star Dwayne Hickman....
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Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
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The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...
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Wine, Women and Horses
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife....
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Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be...
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The Invisible Menace
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. ...
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Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h...
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Ever Since Eve
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lechero...
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Cross My Heart
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and ...
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Masquerade in Mexico
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is maki...
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of mansl...
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Dance Charlie Dance
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unin...
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Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...
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The Flying Irishman
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred ...
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Prairie Chickens
Two unemployed cowhands help a pill-popping rancher find the nasty varmint who's been rustling cattl...
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Lucky Night
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, ...
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Five Came Back
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the...
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Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
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Francis
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatri...
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Thieves Fall Out
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's l...
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bo...
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The Cherokee Strip
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of ...
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Midnight Court
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car ...
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Wake Island
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to ke...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Night Waitress
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Fra...
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Smart Blonde
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma...
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Dixie Dugan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol...
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The Unknown Guest
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the t...
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The Gang's All Here
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific....
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The Sky Parade
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-bo...
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Suddenly It's Spring
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce....
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Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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All American Chump
A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters....
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No Time to Marry
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficu...
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Just a Cute Kid
When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes h...
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Father Steps Out
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an...
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Good Morning, Judge
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the pl...
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Tanks a Million
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a p...
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Get Going
Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and whi...
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Yanks Ahoy
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub....
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pa...
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins...
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Red Garters
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangl...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he i...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...
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Saturday's Children
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet....
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No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
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Back in Circulation
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival paper...
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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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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...
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Pop Always Pays
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then franti...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen ...
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Young Ideas
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor....
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Double Exposure
An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beaut...
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La Conga Nights
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The st...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government...
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Tough as They Come
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when th...
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The Trouble with Women
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman...
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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Border Flight
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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The Well Groomed Bride
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a ...
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Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...
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Bombalera
1945 film nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel...
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Bring on the Girls
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. ...
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A Guy Named Joe
A cocky U.S. Army Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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Slapsie Maxie's
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Ma...
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Blossoms in the Dust
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y...
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Nazty Nuisance
Germany's Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy's Mussolini and Japan's Suki Yama, although he ...
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The Falcon Strikes Back
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life....
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Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly...
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China Clipper
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....
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Twelve Crowded Hours
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders....
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Incendiary Blonde
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n...
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Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his t...
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Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a...
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Footsteps in the Dark
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police att...
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Headin' East
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking thei...
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The Sunrise Gun
Johnny Sunrise is training his son to avenge the injury to his hand which was caused by Sam Duskin. ...
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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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