George Meeker
Birthday: 1904-03-05
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Meeker (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character movie and Broadway actor who became more of a legend off-camera than on. Meeker made several movies such as Crime, Inc. (1945) and Thief in the Dark (1928), and he played an uncredited part in All Through the Night (1941). Meeker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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The Male Animal
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspect...
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Love Crazy
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorc...
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a loc...
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I Accuse My Parents
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. Aft...
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History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...
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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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Welcome Home
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying t...
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High Sierra
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort....
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Government Agents vs Phantom Legion
Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of th...
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Murder by Television
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent an...
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Crime, Inc.
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a ch...
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Undercover Doctor
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, high...
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Blessed Event
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press....
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Below the Deadline
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...
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Against the Law
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with hi...
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The Red Dragon
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets...
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Dead Man's Eyes
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father...
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The Port of 40 Thieves
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an ...
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Chick Carter, Detective
Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Juli...
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All Through the Night
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....
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Neighborhood House
Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, ...
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Busses Roar
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields....
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The Dragon Murder Case
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides t...
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Larceny, Inc.
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can d...
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Afraid to Talk
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki...
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Home in Oklahoma
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him an...
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Remember Last Night?
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host ha...
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Murder on a Honeymoon
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third ...
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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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Brenda Starr, Reporter
Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot from a ...
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Four Sons
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to...
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Emma
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with rese...
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Dark Hazard
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...
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Small Town Girl
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One ...
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The Richest Girl in the World
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and...
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The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden....
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Up in Arms
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...
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A Fool's Advice
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in t...
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The Gay Ranchero
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their me...
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Murder in the Big House
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells s...
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Secret Enemies
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate huntin...
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Night of Terror
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. Howe...
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Strictly Dishonorable
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boor...
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Seven Doors to Death
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem t...
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and ...
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Sweepings
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest depart...
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Beware Of Ladies
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredi...
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Double Harness
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband....
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The Big Show-Off
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order ...
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Tango
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is fo...
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The Invisible Monster
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibil...
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Escape by Night
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight....
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Superman
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first majo...
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Black Market Babies
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket ...
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll...
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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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Tess of the Storm Country
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea...
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no lon...
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a stud...
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Danger on the Air
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio sho...
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Slander House
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the ...
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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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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and woman...
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Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a...
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On Again—Off Again
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug com...
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Walking on Air
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him hom...
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etti...
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The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops ro...
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Her Sister's Secret
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a...
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Silent Partner
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's a...
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Vanity Street
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get he...
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The Man Who Found Himself
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passio...
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Smashing the Rackets
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothin...
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Marry the Boss's Daughter
Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to hi...
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Hi, Nellie!
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield wit...
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Tarzan's Revenge
Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance....
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The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business....
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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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The Long Shot
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thorough...
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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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Words and Music
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richa...
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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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Docks of New York
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace....
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Wings of the Navy
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on...
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Ever Since Eve
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls i...
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It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...
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A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....
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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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Stunt Pilot
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Unive...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life....
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Escape to Paradise
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble....
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter...
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Swanee River
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...
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Everything's on Ice
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money....
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Apache Rose
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are counte...
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The Misleading Lady
A bored socialite wagers with a Broadway producer in order to land the lead role in his play but has...
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Son of Dracula
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local official...
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Silver Trails
Jimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen Ramsa...
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The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu...
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Take It Big
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. ...
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The Ox-Bow Incident
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...
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The Kid From Texas
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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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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Fireman, Save My Child
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to pla...
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Chicken à la King
A married tightwad learns to loosen up by living the life of a playboy....
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Blonde Ransom
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyf...
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Murder Is My Business
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of polic...
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders....
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Just Before Dawn
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summon...
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Back Street
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets...
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Spy Ship
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to br...
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Change of Heart
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrappe...
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One Touch of Venus
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life....
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Twilight in the Sierras
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion....
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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol....
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The First Year
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courte...
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Music for Madame
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh...
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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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Free, Blonde and 21
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; an...
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Spoilers of the Plains
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents ...
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Song of Nevada
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive....
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The Singing Hill
If a young lady gives up her inheritance the local ranchers will lose their free grazing land....
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All Women Have Secrets
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts,...
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The Denver Kid
When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer. To ...
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Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Rocky Lane, Special Investigator for Wells Fargo, shows up just in time to save the stage from being...
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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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Sky Liner
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete w...
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The Case of the Baby-Sitter
The baby sitter is none other than veteran Hollywood tough guy Tom Neal. A private detective, Neal i...
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Melody in Spring
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a...
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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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You're in the Army Now
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge....
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I Believed in You
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been marr...
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If You Could Only Cook
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion....
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Angel on My Shoulder
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up f...
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Song of the Eagle
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over th...
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Come Out Fighting
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son....
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A Guy, a Gal and a Pal
A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a...
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You Can't Escape Forever
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi...
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Gentle Julia
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers se...
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A Night at Earl Carroll's
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a pa...
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Captains of the Clouds
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and t...
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A Thief in the Dark
Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest lea...
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