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J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. He appeared in over 325 films over a 41-year career from 1911 to 1951, and directed forty-four silent films from 1912 to 1917.

MacDonald was the principal director of L. Frank Baum''s Oz Film Manufacturing Company, and he can frequently be seen in the films of Frank Capra, Preston Sturges and, especially, John Ford.

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck. ...

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Superman and the Mole Men (1951)

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to ...

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Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted. ...

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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)

Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind. ...

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Woman on the Run (1950)

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their u ...

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Hostile Country (1950)

In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war. ...

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The Daltons' Women (1950)

The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. They receive help from Pinkerton agent Joan Talbot as they try to sort out who the bad guys really are. ...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accid ...

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Dakota Lil (1950)

Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits. ...

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The Dalton Gang (1949)

Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navajos or the Dalton Gang. ...

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You're My Everything (1949)

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood ...

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Streets of San Francisco (1949)

A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster. ...

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Trouble Preferred (1948)

A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies. ...

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Whispering Smith (1948)

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa). ...

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Shep Comes Home (1948)

Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" W ...

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The Walls of Jericho (1948)

In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman. ...

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Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)

The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer. ...

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Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)

The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache lea ...

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Sitting Pretty (1948)

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just a ...

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Panhandle (1948)

An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler. ...

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If You Knew Susie (1948)

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Pa ...

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Thunder in the Valley (1947)

The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah's Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister ...

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Christmas Eve (1947)

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt pl ...

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates. ...

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Keeper of the Bees (1947)

Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor. ...

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Web of Danger (1947)

Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romanc ...

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with ...

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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost a ...

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Goodbye, Weeds (1946)

A sales pitch for an herbicide/fertilizer for the lawn made by Sherwin Williams. ...

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My Darling Clementine (1946)

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits. ...

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Smoky (1946)

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he m ...

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Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)

After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series. ...

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Pillow of Death (1945)

Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayn ...

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Fallen Angel (1945)

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't ...

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Johnny Angel (1945)

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death. ...

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Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax. ...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree ...

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Hangover Square (1945)

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longd ...

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Greenwich Village (1944)

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue. ...

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember. ...

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The Great Moment (1944)

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment. ...

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Texas Masquerade (1944)

A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the N ...

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True to Life (1943)

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty ab ...

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Tiger Fangs (1943)

A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry. ...

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The Ape Man (1943)

A scientist is turned into an ape man. ...

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Harrigan's Kid (1943)

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track. ...

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The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942)

Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instruct ...

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Bowery at Midnight (1942)

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments ...

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Phantom Killer (1942)

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders. ...

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The Palm Beach Story (1942)

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III. ...

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The Living Ghost (1942)

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie. ...

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One Thrilling Night (1942)

A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed. ...

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Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark te ...

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Captains of the Clouds (1942)

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF. ...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend. ...

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Private Snuffy Smith (1942)

A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character. ...

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Law of the Timber (1941)

PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood. ...

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Riders of the Timberline (1941)

Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts. ...

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Broadway Limited (1941)

A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it. ...

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The Great Lie (1941)

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child. ...

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In Old Cheyenne (1941)

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is. ...

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Meet John Doe (1941)

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically ...

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Friendly Neighbors (1940)

The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers so ...

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Untamed (1940)

A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous ...

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Pony Express Days (1940)

In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot. ...

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Stagecoach War (1940)

Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob. ...

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The Last Alarm (1940)

A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his fam ...

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Prairie Law (1940)

Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can pres ...

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I Take This Oath (1940)

The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers. ...

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The Light of Western Stars (1940)

Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff. ...

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Dark Command (1940)

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp divisi ...

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Knights of the Range (1940)

Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-in with an outlaw gang, Frayne aligns himself with the h ...

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The Gentleman from Arizona (1939)

The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a ...

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The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop. ...

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Full Confession (1939)

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair. ...

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They Shall Have Music (1939)

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children. ...

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Coast Guard (1939)

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man ...

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Conspiracy (1939)

American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, ...

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Mickey the Kid (1939)

A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children. ...

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Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple take ...

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Zenobia (1939)

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ...

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East Side of Heaven (1939)

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family. ...

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The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)

Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men a ...

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Little Orphan Annie (1938)

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promis ...

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Submarine Patrol (1938)

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew. ...

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Come On, Rangers (1938)

A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot. ...

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Gang Bullets (1938)

A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gan ...

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The Last Express (1938)

A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles. ...

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There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...

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The Crowd Roars (1938)

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living. ...

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Barefoot Boy (1938)

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks. ...

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White Banners (1938)

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager P ...

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Numbered Woman (1938)

After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by becoming the home-care nurse for the ailing leader of the gang which actually stole the bonds. ...

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Extortion (1938)

In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus. ...

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State Police (1938)

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town. ...

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My Old Kentucky Home (1938)

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to ...

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Courage of the West (1937)

Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices. ...

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County Fair (1937)

Racetrack drama about a young jockey accused of drugging his horse. ...

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The Game That Kills (1937)

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join ...

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My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters. ...

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Topper (1937)

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his ...

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Roaring Timber (1937)

Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days. ...

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Flying Fists (1937)

A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight. ...

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Slim (1937)

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession. ...

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Slave Ship (1937)

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo. ...

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Parnell (1937)

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom. ...

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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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Maid of Salem (1937)

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. Sh ...

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The Great Barrier (1937)

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. ...

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Mysterious Crossing (1936)

While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a ...

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Show Boat (1936)

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady. ...

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Florida Special (1936)

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels. ...

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Exclusive Story (1936)

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars. ...

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Riffraff (1936)

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie. ...

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Hitch Hike Lady (1935)

Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they ...

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Fighting Youth (1935)

A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team. ...

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Stormy (1935)

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck. ...

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Waterfront Lady (1935)

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner. ...

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Danger Ahead (1935)

Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the r ...

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The Irish in Us (1935)

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

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Front Page Woman (1935)

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other. ...

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Shadows of the Orient (1935)

A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load" ...

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The Arizonian (1935)

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed out ...

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The Healer (1935)

A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him. ...

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Our Little Girl (1935)

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are hav ...

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Let 'em Have It (1935)

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader. ...

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Swellhead (1935)

Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turnin ...

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Star of Midnight (1935)

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception. ...

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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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Northern Frontier (1935)

A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters. ...

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Square Shooter (1935)

Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will. ...

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The Best Man Wins (1935)

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, f ...

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Maybe It's Love (1935)

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed. ...

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Romance in Manhattan (1934)

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with ...

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Beggar's Holiday (1934)

A young woman falls in love with the man of her dreams, not knowing that he's an embezzler who's about to flee the country. ...

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Once to Every Woman (1934)

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital. ...

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The Crime Doctor (1934)

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder. ...

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The Crosby Case (1934)

Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder. ...

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Man of Two Worlds (1934)

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman. ...

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Murder on the Campus (1933)

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer. ...

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Under Secret Orders (1933)

A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution. ...

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Myrt and Marge (1933)

Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with ...

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The Power and the Glory (1933)

A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late. ...

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

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How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points (1933)

The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion. ...

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Laughing at Life (1933)

Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, ...

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Peg o' My Heart (1933)

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to lear ...

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The Working Man (1933)

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon hi ...

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The Vanishing Frontier (1933)

Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly ret ...

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The Iron Master (1933)

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry. ...

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No Man of Her Own (1932)

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman. ...

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The Racing Strain (1932)

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that. ...

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Me and My Gal (1932)

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley. ...

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Men Are Such Fools (1932)

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even ...

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The Pride of the Legion (1932)

After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters. ...

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Heritage of the Desert (1932)

A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel. ...

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This Sporting Age (1932)

Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. ...

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70,000 Witnesses (1932)

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues. ...

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Hearts of Humanity (1932)

Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar ...

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The Phantom Express (1932)

Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train. ...

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The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior. ...

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The Hurricane Express (1932)

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. ...

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Madame Racketeer (1932)

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daugh ...

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Week-End Marriage (1932)

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. ...

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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting. ...

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Scandal for Sale (1932)

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

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Probation (1932)

Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, s ...

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Steady Company (1932)

Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs. ...

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Hotel Continental (1932)

Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago. ...

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Discarded Lovers (1932)

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among ...

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Under Eighteen (1932)

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the p ...

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Touchdown! (1931)

Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. ...

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The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team. ...

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The Brat (1931)

A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways. ...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver' (1931)

Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive. ...

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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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Stranger in Town (1931)

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save ...

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The Squaw Man (1931)

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from ...

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The Maltese Falcon (1931)

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon. ...

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Too Young to Marry (1931)

In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wif ...

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The Millionaire (1931)

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly. ...

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The Stolen Jools (1931)

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium. ...

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Woman Hungry (1931)

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Jud ...

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The Easiest Way (1931)

A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" but then finds true love with a newspaperman her own age. But when he disappears on a long assignment, she is unable to support herself in Depression-era New ...

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The Painted Desert (1931)

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young m ...

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Other Men's Women (1931)

The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other's wife. ...

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