Pat O'Brien

Pat O'Brien

Birthday: 1899-11-10

Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Biography: Pat O'Brien (born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.

Movies

Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunit...

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American Madness
American Madness

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbi...

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Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1...

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My Mistake
My Mistake

A hired gunman inadvertently targets an undertaker as his next victim, who talks the killer into lea...

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Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while ...

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Ragtime
Ragtime

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...

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Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

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Crack-Up
Crack-Up

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th...

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Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matu...

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The End
The End

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waitin...

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The People Against O'Hara
The People Against O'Hara

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client....

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The Front Page
The Front Page

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e...

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The Iron Major
The Iron Major

William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he becam...

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The Boy with Green Hair
The Boy with Green Hair

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing ...

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Knute Rockne All American
Knute Rockne All American

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....

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Bombshell
Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....

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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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The Phynx
The Phynx

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania ...

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Criminal Lawyer
Criminal Lawyer

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case....

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His Butler's Sister
His Butler's Sister

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway....

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A Dangerous Profession
A Dangerous Profession

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame....

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Johnny One-Eye
Johnny One-Eye

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane C...

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San Quentin
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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Secret Command
Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the sh...

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Bureau of Missing Persons
Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor...

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The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...

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The Over the Hill Gang
The Over the Hill Gang

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken...

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The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...

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Flirtation Walk
Flirtation Walk

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a...

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Here Comes the Navy
Here Comes the Navy

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism....

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Ceiling Zero
Ceiling Zero

War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling...

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Torrid Zone
Torrid Zone

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl....

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The Great O'Malley
The Great O'Malley

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a...

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The Fireball
The Fireball

Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after ...

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China Clipper
China Clipper

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....

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Virtue
Virtue

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver...

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Flight Lieutenant
Flight Lieutenant

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, a...

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Kill Me Tomorrow
Kill Me Tomorrow

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap....

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Broadway
Broadway

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s....

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Laughter in Hell
Laughter in Hell

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover....

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James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy

During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about ...

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Air Mail
Air Mail

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions...

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The Navy Comes Through
The Navy Comes Through

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis....

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The Kid from Kokomo
The Kid from Kokomo

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston...

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Twenty Million Sweethearts
Twenty Million Sweethearts

Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornel...

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Slightly Honorable
Slightly Honorable

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....

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Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets Girl

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be ...

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The World Gone Mad
The World Gone Mad

A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fr...

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The Final Edition
The Final Edition

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crim...

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Gambling Lady
Gambling Lady

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's...

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The Personality Kid
The Personality Kid

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success....

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'Til We Meet Again
'Til We Meet Again

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to Ame...

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Swingtime in the Movies
Swingtime in the Movies

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break....

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Flowing Gold
Flowing Gold

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and th...

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Cowboy from Brooklyn
Cowboy from Brooklyn

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot....

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Honor Among Lovers
Honor Among Lovers

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...

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Destination Unknown
Destination Unknown

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind....

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Scandal for Sale
Scandal for Sale

A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million....

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Hell's House
Hell's House

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss....

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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
The Strange Case of Clara Deane

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife does...

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Flying High
Flying High

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....

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Consolation Marriage
Consolation Marriage

A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend....

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Submarine D-1
Submarine D-1

Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock ...

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College Coach
College Coach

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along th...

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Having Wonderful Crime
Having Wonderful Crime

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort...

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Jubilee Trail
Jubilee Trail

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is k...

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Slim
Slim

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade...

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Public Enemy's Wife
Public Enemy's Wife

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, finge...

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Ring of Fear
Ring of Fear

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus....

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Page Miss Glory
Page Miss Glory

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel...

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The Adventures of Nick Carter
The Adventures of Nick Carter

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's w...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...

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Garden of the Moon
Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...

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The Irish in Us
The Irish in Us

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter....

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Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe
Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe

Documentary on the life and career of Babe Ruth....

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I Married a Doctor
I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the towns...

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Oil for the Lamps of China
Oil for the Lamps of China

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la...

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Marine Raiders
Marine Raiders

A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia....

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Stars Over Broadway
Stars Over Broadway

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation....

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In Caliente
In Caliente

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print....

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Off the Record
Off the Record

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go ...

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Man Alive
Man Alive

A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend....

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Indianapolis Speedway
Indianapolis Speedway

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...

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Women Are Like That
Women Are Like That

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries h...

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I've Got Your Number
I've Got Your Number

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes....

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Scout's Honor
Scout's Honor

Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home ...

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I Sell Anything
I Sell Anything

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...

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Fighting Father Dunne
Fighting Father Dunne

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....

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Town Tamer
Town Tamer

A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep ...

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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers f...

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Escape to Glory
Escape to Glory

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Esca...

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Back in Circulation
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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Out Where the Stars Begin
Out Where the Stars Begin

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director...

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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the me...

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Compliments of the Season
Compliments of the Season

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despair...

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Inside Detroit
Inside Detroit

Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A....

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Devil Dogs of the Air
Devil Dogs of the Air

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory....

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Personal Maid
Personal Maid

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal...

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Two Yanks in Trinidad
Two Yanks in Trinidad

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),...

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Breakdowns of 1936
Breakdowns of 1936

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....

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Okinawa
Okinawa

On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised whe...

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Perilous Holiday
Perilous Holiday

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed ...

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Breakdowns of 1941
Breakdowns of 1941

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941....

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Blow-Ups of 1947
Blow-Ups of 1947

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947....

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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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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...

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Crimes Square
Crimes Square

When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police....

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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro...

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Flaming Gold
Flaming Gold

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening....

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Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....

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Things You Never See on the Screen
Things You Never See on the Screen

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....

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A Dream Comes True
A Dream Comes True

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....

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Breakdowns of 1937
Breakdowns of 1937

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937....

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Breakdowns of 1939
Breakdowns of 1939

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....

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Breakdowns of 1940
Breakdowns of 1940

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940....

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The Road to Hong Kong
The Road to Hong Kong

When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new...

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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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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...

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Billy Jack Goes to Washington
Billy Jack Goes to Washington

After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power...

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Kiss Me... Kill Me
Kiss Me... Kill Me

A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murder...

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Hollywood Speaks
Hollywood Speaks

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist det...

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Screen Snapshots No. 11
Screen Snapshots No. 11

Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and...

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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People....

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Amanda Fallon
Amanda Fallon

A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager....

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The Sky's the Limit
The Sky's the Limit

A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly....

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Studio Highlights
Studio Highlights

A short promotional film about Ruby Keeler and her upcoming film "Flirtation Walk." It provides a br...

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Dill Scallion
Dill Scallion

School bus driver Dill Scallion dreams of becoming a famous country music singer. He sings from his ...

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Invitation to a Gunfighter
Invitation to a Gunfighter

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire...

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