Clarence Wilson
Birthday: 1876-11-16
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography: Clarence Hummel Wilson (November 17, 1876 – October 5, 1941) was an American character actor. He appeared in nearly 200 movies between 1920 and 1941, mostly in supporting roles as an old miser or grouch. He had notable supporting roles in films like The Front Page (1931), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), and You Can't Take It With You (1938). Wilson also played in several Our Gang comedies, most notably as Mr. Crutch in Shrimps for a Day and school board chairman Alonzo Pratt in Come Back, Miss Pipps, his final film. Wilson died on October 5, 1941, approximately three weeks before the release of Come Back, Miss Pipps.
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Come Back, Miss Pipps
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours....
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Young April
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom....
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A Shriek in the Night
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the ...
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered....
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Lady Killer
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho...
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The Last Hour
Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper th...
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The First Born
Loey Tsing, the first love of Chan Wang, is sold into slavery by her father. Although Chan marries a...
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The Land of Jazz
Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an is...
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While the Devil Laughs
Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support. To m...
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One Frightened Night
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his mo...
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Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. Bu...
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The Dangerous Maid
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself...
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Having Wonderful Time
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and find...
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On the Wrong Trek
Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in wit...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only ...
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Winner Take All
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peg...
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The Penguin Pool Murder
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker G...
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It May Happen to You
From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help th...
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Under Eighteen
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George'...
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Bondage
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution,...
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Terror Aboard
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out wh...
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....
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Tillie and Gus
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pra...
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When a Man's a Man
A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert...
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Road Show
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning i...
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Now I'll Tell
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love ...
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Some Like It Hot
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's bo...
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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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Down To Earth
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize....
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Sweepstakes
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race....
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Hats Off
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Cl...
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Woman Trap
The younger brother of a police captain is a wanted fugitive, so when the captain railroads his brot...
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Kentucky Moonshine
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show....
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Little Old New York
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...
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Small Town Boy
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "h...
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Little Miss Nobody
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past....
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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Dangerous Paradise
Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger...
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Ladies' Man
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with hi...
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The Sport Parade
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation....
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Officer O'Brien
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang...
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Wake Up and Dream
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time....
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Strictly Unconventional
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic Englis...
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Big News
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did...
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Cinderella of the Hills
Hoping to reconcile her divorced parents, Norris Gradley remains with her father, Giles, after he ma...
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The Tin Man
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and...
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Flying High
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....
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Sutter's Gold
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....
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A Dog of Flanders
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition i...
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The Case of the Black Cat
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wil...
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King for a Night
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in...
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Kentucky Kernels
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Mil...
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Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
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Paddy O'Day
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an ...
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Son of Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and re...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following e...
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East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul...
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Let Us Live
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the M...
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Flaming Guns
A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents,...
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Ladies Must Dress
Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy ...
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The Winning Ticket
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife....
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Millionaire Playboy
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman....
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The Great Gambini
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, includin...
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Smoke Lightning
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to...
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, b...
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Beyond the Law
Railroad Detective Tim Weston, charmed by Helen Glenn, agrees to clear her ex-convict father, John G...
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A Girl in Every Port
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle...
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The Rainmakers
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spel...
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Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je...
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Night Life in Reno
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (inte...
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Two Wise Maids
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an...
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The Westland Case
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows wer...
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The Sea Ghost
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain...
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Amateur Daddy
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one o...
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Her Majesty, Love
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desse...
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Love Begins at Twenty
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes....
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Love in the Rough
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he concea...
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Bachelor Bait
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking....
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Damaged Goods
A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis....
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Waterfront Lady
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he be...
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Honor First
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his bro...
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It's in the Air
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...
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The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame....
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Little Men
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou...
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Friendly Neighbors
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-f...
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Melody Ranch
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce...
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The Penalty
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after...
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Young Ironsides
Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest....
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Nurse to You!
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on...
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The Beast of the City
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed...
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Unknown Blonde
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds ...
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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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The Count of Monte Cristo
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a le...
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The Girl in 419
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a ...
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Shrimps for a Day
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage...
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I Dream Too Much
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin...
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentl...
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Rasputin and the Empress
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...
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Paid
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot...
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The Purchase Price
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a...
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Navy Wife
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter....
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In Old Chicago
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually riva...
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Day of Reckoning
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with hi...
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The Front Page
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Operator 13
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of...
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Educating Father
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi...
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Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The t...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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The Son of Kong
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong....
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I'll Fix It
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no p...
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The Great Hotel Murder
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder b...
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Soft Boiled
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns ...
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Forsaking All Others
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man....
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The Mad Miss Manton
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police ...
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Mad Love
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's han...
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Little Robinson Crusoe
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, ...
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Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...
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I Like it That Way
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer....
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The Mysterious Rider
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to th...
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A Successful Failure
Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares abo...
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Little Sinner
Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results....
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Clown Princes
The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and...
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Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re...
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The Little Grey Mouse
Beverly Arnold is a secretary in the law firm of John Cumberland and Stephen Gray. Both men court he...
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The Tomboy
Minnie, the village tomboy, meets a handsome Stranger after playing ball one afternoon. She invites ...
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The Phantom of the Turf
When a wealthy recluse apparently commits suicide, his trusted friend John Nichols (Rex Lease) is pu...
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