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Edward Brophy

Edward Brophy

Edward Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic.

He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo.

His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). He also made several appearances in the films of director John Ford.

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Movies Starring Edward Brophy (122)

The Slowest Gun in the West (1960)

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. T ...

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The Last Hurrah (1958)

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while ...

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Bundle of Joy (1956)

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the ...

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Pier 23 (1951)

Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth ...

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Roaring City (1951)

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder. ...

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Danger Zone (1951)

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party. ...

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Arson, Inc. (1949)

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance. ...

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The Price of Freedom (1949)

The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the wor ...

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners. ...

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Renegade Girl (1946)

A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West. ...

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The Falcon's Adventure (1946)

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder. ...

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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946)

A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race. ...

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Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. ...

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Girl on the Spot (1946)

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot ...

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The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl whose nurse has been recently murdered. ...

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Penthouse Rhythm (1945)

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Wonder Man (1945)

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summ ...

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I'll Remember April (1945)

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder. ...

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See My Lawyer (1945)

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patr ...

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The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...

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A Night of Adventure (1944)

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges. ...

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It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act. ...

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Cover Girl (1944)

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind. ...

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A Scream in the Dark (1943)

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella. ...

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Destroyer (1943)

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Ch ...

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Air Force (1943)

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines. ...

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Lady Bodyguard (1943)

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires ...

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Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942. ...

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Madame Spy (1942)

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his side. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins associating with suspected Nazi functionaries, and wonders if she may be the elusive ...

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Broadway (1942)

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

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Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... ...

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All Through the Night (1942)

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship. ...

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Steel Against the Sky (1941)

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman. ...

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Dumbo (1941)

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles. ...

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The Gay Falcon (1941)

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have v ...

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Buy Me That Town (1941)

A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl. ...

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Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions. ...

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A Dangerous Game (1941)

Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal ...

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The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader. ...

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Thieves Fall Out (1941)

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broke ...

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Sleepers West (1941)

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness. ...

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The Invisible Woman (1940)

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss. ...

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Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry. ...

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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventu ...

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The Great Profile (1940)

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy. ...

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Golden Gloves (1940)

An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster. ...

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Alias the Deacon (1940)

A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game. ...

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Calling Philo Vance (1940)

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to ...

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The Big Guy (1939)

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty. ...

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The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to dut ...

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Kid Nightingale (1939)

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings. ...

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Golden Boy (1939)

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts. ...

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The Kid from Kokomo (1939)

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the rin ...

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For Love or Money (1939)

To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it ...

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Society Lawyer (1939)

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall who was arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigatio ...

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Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career. ...

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax ...

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Gambling Ship (1938)

A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage. ...

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Vacation from Love (1938)

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy. ...

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Come On, Leathernecks! (1938)

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines. ...

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Passport Husband (1938)

At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's ...

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Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring ...

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Hold That Kiss (1938)

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy. ...

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Romance on the Run (1938)

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company. ...

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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. ...

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Blossoms On Broadway (1937)

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway. ...

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The Last Gangster (1937)

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer. ...

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The Girl Said No (1937)

Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. ...

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Trapped by G-Men (1937)

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men. ...

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Varsity Show (1937)

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows wer ...

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The Great Gambini (1937)

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini. ...

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The Hit Parade (1937)

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He fi ...

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The Soldier and the Lady (1937)

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who bot ...

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Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the eme ...

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Oh, Doctor (1937)

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him. ...

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Career Woman (1936)

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. ...

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Great Guy (1936)

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public. ...

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Hideaway Girl (1936)

An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical. ...

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Mister Cinderella (1936)

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns ...

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All American Chump (1936)

A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters. ...

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Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their ...

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Kelly the Second (1936)

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer. ...

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Spendthrift (1936)

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares ...

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The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge. ...

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Woman Trap (1936)

A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent. ...

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Here Comes Trouble (1936)

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks. ...

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Strike Me Pink (1936)

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters. ...

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Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. ...

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Remember Last Night? (1935)

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. ...

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$1,000 a Minute (1935)

Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours. ...

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I Live My Life (1935)

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist. ...

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China Seas (1935)

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard! ...

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She Gets Her Man (1935)

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further com ...

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Mad Love (1935)

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer. ...

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People Will Talk (1935)

Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how dist ...

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Naughty Marietta (1935)

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love. ...

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The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil crim ...

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Shadow of Doubt (1935)

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee. ...

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Sequoia (1935)

A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends. ...

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I'll Fix It (1934)

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school ...

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Evelyn Prentice (1934)

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity. ...

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Death on the Diamond (1934)

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the ...

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Hide-Out (1934)

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softene ...

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Paris Interlude (1934)

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro... ...

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The Thin Man (1934)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...

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The Poor Rich (1934)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced ...

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Hello Pop (1933)

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons. ...

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Broadway to Hollywood (1933)

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son. ...

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Beer and Pretzels (1933)

Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos and a few musical numbers ensue. ...

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What! No Beer? (1933)

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...

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Flesh (1932)

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters. ...

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Prosperity (1932)

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry. ...

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Speak Easily (1932)

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical. ...

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Skyscraper Souls (1932)

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his b ...

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The Beast of the City (1932)

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned. ...

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The Passionate Plumber (1932)

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financin ...

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Freaks (1932)

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. ...

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The Champ (1931)

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son. ...

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A Dangerous Affair (1931)

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of rea ...

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Sporting Blood (1931)

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well. ...

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A Free Soul (1931)

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. ...

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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefer ...

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Movies Made By Edward Brophy (2)

Casanova Against His Will (1931)

Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first. This is the German language version of Buster Keaton's comedy "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" (1931). ...

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Buster se marie (1931)

This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931). This film is presumed to be lost. ...

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