Frank Puglia
Birthday: 1892-03-08
Place of Birth: Linguaglossa, Sicily, Italy
Biography: Francesco Giuseppe "Frank" Puglia (9 March 1892 – 25 October 1975) was an Italian-American film actor. He had small, but memorable roles in films including Casablanca (a Moroccan rug merchant), Now, Voyager and The Jungle Book.
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Jungle Book
Mowgli, lost in the jungle when a toddler, raised by wolves, years later happens upon his human vill...
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Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi...
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Brute Force
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-trippi...
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Colorado Territory
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last...
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Black Hand
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father....
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Mr. Ricco
Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Jo...
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20 Million Miles to Earth
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean ...
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Accused of Murder
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a...
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Down Argentine Way
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine h...
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Phantom of the Opera
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to...
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Fiesta
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullf...
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destro...
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Barefoot Boy
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks....
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The Sword of Ali Baba
Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. ...
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My Favorite Brunette
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective....
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Maisie
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl...
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The Lost Moment
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19...
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Romola
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as...
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum e...
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A Bell for Adano
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintrod...
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Torrid Zone
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl....
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a w...
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The Fatal Hour
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspe...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....
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Always in My Heart
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his...
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The Burning Hills
When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to re...
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Escape Me Never
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's ...
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Men in White
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his soc...
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo contain...
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The Bandits of Corsica
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness....
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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Special Agent
A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express....
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Billy the Kid
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and ...
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Federal Agent at Large
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an...
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The Girl and the Gambler
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet....
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Pilot #5
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With...
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Mama Steps Out
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Fur...
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Duel at Apache Wells
A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his famil...
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Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver...
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Bagdad
An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and h...
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Dream Girl
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries...
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The Shanghai Story
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel b...
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Seventh Heaven
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the ...
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Escape from Hong Kong
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Ha...
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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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Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World Wa...
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That Night in Rio
An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carr...
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Dramatic School
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works...
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Casanova's Big Night
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to roma...
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. ...
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Sharpshooters
Ace newsreel cameraman is working in a mythical European country when the king is assassinated. He g...
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The Spy in the Green Hat
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the sce...
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Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
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Law of the Tropics
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United S...
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The Black Orchid
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow....
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Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as siste...
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Together Again
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for y...
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Song of the City
A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Ita...
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The Solitaire Man
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered ...
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In Name Only
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive...
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Secret Agent of Japan
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari....
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You Can't Have Everything
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of st...
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We Have Our Moments
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen ...
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I'll Give a Million
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that...
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City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the mu...
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Code of the Secret Service
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates....
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Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...
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The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of...
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Pirates of the Skies
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until...
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Exclusive
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on ...
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A Star Is Born
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...
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In Old Caliente
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We...
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The Spellbinder
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim...
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Lady of the Tropics
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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The Perfect Gentleman
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actr...
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Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...
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Now, Voyager
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man...
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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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Bride of Vengeance
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia...
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Brazil
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typi...
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Without Reservations
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...
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Princess O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....
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Tall in the Saddle
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...
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The Parson of Panamint
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old pr...
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Forged Passport
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f...
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The Mark of Zorro
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...
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Serenade
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make ...
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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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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...
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Wife vs. Secretary
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his att...
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A Doctor's Diary
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a pr...
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Invisible Enemy
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent ...
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Fascination
A young woman with a Spanish father and an American mother living in Spain under the supervision of ...
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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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'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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No, No, Nanette
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr...
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Behind the News
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom...
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The Steel Lady
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps t...
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Viva Villa!
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in ...
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When You're in Love
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Mooc...
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The Desert Hawk
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daug...
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong ...
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Blood on the Sun
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domin...
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Son of Belle Starr
The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself g...
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Meet the Wildcat
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod W...
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The First Texan
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his...
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The Beautiful City
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brothe...
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The Gay Desperado
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (...
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Rascals
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a soc...
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to bu...
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The Bride Wore Red
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor....
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Captain Blood
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate....
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, whi...
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This Is the Life
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which sh...
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The Caddy
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is to...
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Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...
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Around the World
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on...
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Chained
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to div...
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The Public Pays
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro...
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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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Tropic Holiday
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the bord...
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One More River
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship....
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A Song to Remember
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood...
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as ...
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Isn't Life Wonderful
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and str...
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The Shining Hour
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it....
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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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The Man Who Laughs
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly execut...
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The Flag of Humanity
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross....
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Joan of Arc
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against ...
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The Killers of Mussolini
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his mini...
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and ...
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The Melody Lingers on
A piano virtuoso has a child out of wedlock; the father, her fiancé, is killed trying to save her li...
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