Charles Middleton
Birthday: 1874-10-02
Place of Birth: Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA
Biography: Charles Brown Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, he appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. Sometimes credited as Charles B. Middleton, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.
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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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Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring S...
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Flash Gordon
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth....
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My Girl Tisa
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting th...
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The Pretender
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by ...
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The Town Went Wild
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched a...
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The Flying Deuces
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempt...
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Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the ...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encou...
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Strangler of the Swamp
A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent m...
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans....
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Boobs in the Night
Auxiliary home defense workers El and Monte are sent to a spooky house where they come across a mad ...
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Station West
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator Jo...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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The Miracle Woman
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p...
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m...
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The Good Earth
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer...
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship...
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High Pressure
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company"...
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Beau Hunks
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him....
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The Fixer Uppers
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marr...
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The Sign of the Cross
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero....
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Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...
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Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the wo...
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Welcome Danger
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police....
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Belle Starr
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...
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Caught Plastered
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming ...
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Lone Cowboy
Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family frie...
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without M...
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Spook Busters
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and g...
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Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh...
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Hell's Highway
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars....
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The Black Raven
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and h...
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The Devil's Cabaret
At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than ...
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Here Comes Trouble
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the p...
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Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris...
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This Day and Age
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and ...
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A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicte...
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Palmy Days
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie ...
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming t...
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Purple Death from Outer Space
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a synd...
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The Far Call
A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls f...
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Ramona
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his fami...
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X Marks the Spot
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay ...
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East Is West
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sa...
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The Hatchet Man
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policema...
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Destination Unknown
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind....
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Stand-In
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financial...
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Song of the Saddle
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get ...
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Tomorrow at Seven
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace"....
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Pick-up
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caug...
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The Road Is Open Again
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and...
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The Miracle Rider
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his...
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White Woman
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his e...
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Cowboys from Texas
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman...
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Massacre
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva...
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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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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to creat...
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The Three Musketeers
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after ...
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Hollywood Cowboy
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes ...
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero....
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Mr. Skitch
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and ...
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Mystery Ranch
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice....
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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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The Last Round-up
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on beha...
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Reckless
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire....
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David Harum
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom ...
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Dick Tracy Returns
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal...
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Flaming Frontiers
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gol...
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The Killers
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, ...
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Northwest Trail
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an ille...
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Shooting High
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead....
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Way Out West
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is force...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Perils of Nyoka
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hid...
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Disgraced!
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make ma...
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Spook Louder
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the hou...
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Slave Ship
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...
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Red Morning
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew....
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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Too Busy to Work
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him......
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Wild Geese Calling
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall ...
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Rockabye
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play....
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...
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Men of San Quentin
A corrupt official at San Quentin tries to frame an innocent guard for several murders within the pr...
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The Oklahoma Kid
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw ...
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The Decision of Christopher Blake
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Pe...
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Manhattan Parade
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o...
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Hop-a-long Cassidy
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while...
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress....
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Pack Up Your Troubles
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War ...
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Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in ...
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A Dangerous Affair
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook....
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The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and...
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Allegheny Uprising
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the...
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Way Down South
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his sl...
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Wyoming Outlaw
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steal...
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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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The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to ...
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Empty Saddles
Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch....
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Blackmail
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him....
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Sunset of Power
Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of ...
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Square Shooter
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
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Wagon Wheels West
In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father....
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparent...
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Women in Hiding
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of tell...
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Rangers of Fortune
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they ...
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we ...
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Eyes of the Navy
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators throu...
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Rocket Ship
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale...
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A Son Comes Home
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer....
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The Phantom President
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav...
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Rose of the Rancho
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and adm...
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Jailbreak
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars....
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a...
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Jungle Man
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick ...
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The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp...
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Stick to Your Guns
Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends who...
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Black Arrow
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Des...
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Gunfighters
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, a...
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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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Jezebel
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...
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At Twelve Midnight
A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves...
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Island of Doomed Men
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamon...
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An American Tragedy
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder....
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Special Agent
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'...
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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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Wedding Present
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...
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Mars Attacks the World
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Me...
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Captain Fury
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band...
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Doctor Bull
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portr...
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Steamboat Round the Bend
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to fi...
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Western Union
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires ...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....
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The Last Bandit
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortu...
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Career Woman
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds he...
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Gold Rush Maisie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining h...
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The Ruling Voice
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime....
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dr...
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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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Silver Dollar
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty....
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Beau Bandit
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of...
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Behold My Wife!
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, ...
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$1,000 a Touchdown
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to...
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Oklahoma Outlaws
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma....
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The Man Without a Country
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his...
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Batman
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's ...
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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The Desert Hawk
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, w...
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Hollywood and Vine
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining...
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Spaceship to the Unknown
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an effici...
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In Spite of Danger
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the f...
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Joaquin Murrieta
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, i...
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One Against the World
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneeri...
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Dance of the Cookoos
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works ...
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon ...
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Sob Sister
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begi...
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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The Boy from Mercury
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his ...
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Peril from the Planet Mongo
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Dea...
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The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...
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