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Norman Foster

Norman Foster

Norman Foster (December 13, 1903 - July 7, 1976) was an American film director and actor.

Born John Hoeffer in Richmond, Indiana, Foster originally became a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Indiana before going to New York in the hopes of getting a better newspaper job but there were no vacancies. He tried a number of theatrical agencies before getting stage work and later appeared on Broadway in the George S. Kaufman / Ring Lardner play June Moon in 1929. He has also acted in London, England.

He started working in crowd scenes in films before moving to bigger parts. His film acting credits include Prosperity (1932), Pilgrimage (1933), Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers and State Fair (1933). He has written several plays. He gave up acting in the late 1930s to pursue directing, although he occasionally appeared in movies and television programs.

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Movies Made By Norman Foster (49)

It's All True (1993)

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America. ...

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The Deathhead Virgin (1974)

A treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of a Philippine island. ...

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The Green Hornet (1974)

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced ...

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The Legend of Custer (1968)

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip the soldiers into shape to fight, the Kiowa, Sioux and ...

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Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1966)

At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim jumper robs the pair of their strike, killing Old Timer in the process. Brighty then sets out on a quest - ...

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Indian Paint (1965)

Nishko is a chief's son in the Great Plains, before Europeans arrive. During his rite of passage, he's determined to tame a painted pony. He approaches manhood while his peaceful clan is set upon by a nearby tribe willing to break a treaty. He must also co ...

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Von Drake in Spain (1962)

Ludwig Von Drake looks at the dances and customs of Spain. ...

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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: Part 2 (1962)

The continuation and conclusion of the story of the famed Zeider Zee youth Hans Brinker, who desperately needing money for his father's operation, strives to win an ice-skating race. ...

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Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1962)

Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for th ...

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The Sign of Zorro (1958)

In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego dons the mask of Zorro to fight the evil commandant's tyranny, and, with the help of h ...

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The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958)

Wherever this man went--there was trouble. Death stalked him at every turn. Elfego Baca is "The man who couldn't be killed! ...

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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)

Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans. ...

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Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race (1955)

Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy sales, only for such hopes to be dashed by the self-proclaimed "King of the River", Mike Fink, and a band of renegade Indians that have been notorious for ...

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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and ...

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Davy Crockett at the Alamo (1955)

The third of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him, Georgie and a riverboat gambler they meet searching for a new adventure, which leads them to the Alamo, which they must defend. ...

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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955)

The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their claims. In town, Davy wins a gunfight against the town bully, Big Foot Mason, and, as a result, he becomes ...

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Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter (1954)

Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes. ...

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Sombrero (1953)

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages. ...

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Sky Full of Moon (1952)

A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino. ...

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Navajo (1952)

A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man's school. Told in semi-documentary style. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. ...

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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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Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, espe ...

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Tell It to the Judge (1949)

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Wash ...

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The Bewitched House (1949)

Stage magician Fu Manchu uses his illusions and trickeries to find a murderer. ...

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story ...

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Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of a passing stranger threatens their burgeoning relationship. ...

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El ahijado de la muerte (1946)

Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son. ...

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La Fuga (1944)

A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention. ...

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Santa (1943)

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa ...

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Journey into Fear (1943)

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. ...

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Scotland Yard (1941)

Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery. ...

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Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941)

A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter. ...

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Viva Cisco Kid (1940)

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him. ...

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Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic. ...

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20,000 Men a Year (1939)

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year. ...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader. ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing†...

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Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes fr ...

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Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French go ...

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Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government. ...

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Walking Down Broadway (1938)

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse. ...

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Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)

Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless ...

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Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, glittering gems and deadly assassins. Making his way from the mysterious streets of San Francisco's Chinato ...

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Fair Warning (1937)

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort. ...

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I Cover Chinatown (1936)

A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder. ...

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Movies Starring Norman Foster (46)

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor. ...

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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind. ...

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Woman in the Rain (1976)

A once-popular singer gives a candid interview, revealing the sordid details of her rags-to-riches-to-rags odyssey in the tawdry entertainment world. ...

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Double Solitaire (1974)

With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew his vows to his longtime wife. But as they assess their relationship, the couple discovers that their marriage no longer has any meaning. A televised produ ...

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Play It as It Lays (1972)

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only h ...

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The Disneyland Story (1954)

Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily on the career of Mickey Mouse. ...

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Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ...

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Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment. ...

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I Cover Chinatown (1936)

A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder. ...

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High Tension (1936)

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men. ...

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Fatal Lady (1936)

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she t ...

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Everybody's Old Man (1936)

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business. ...

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The Leavenworth Case (1936)

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune. ...

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Suicide Squad (1935)

Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper publicity which goes to his head. His sweetheart, Mary O'Connor, and fire-department friends begin to shun him as they think he is just a publicity hound. But ...

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Super Speed (1935)

A scientist invents a "superspeed" device that makes people fight for its ownership. ...

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The Fire-Trap (1935)

An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvaluing a decrepit warehouse and its contents and burning the building to the ground. ...

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Escape from Devil's Island (1935)

Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman. ...

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The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serio ...

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Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures. ...

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The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)

Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multip ...

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Behind the Green Lights (1935)

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer). ...

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Behind the Evidence (1935)

Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foste ...

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Elinor Norton (1934)

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, ...

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Strictly Dynamite (1934)

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian. ...

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Orient Express (1934)

Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople. ...

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Walls of Gold (1933)

A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister. ...

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Rafter Romance (1933)

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts. ...

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Pilgrimage (1933)

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I. ...

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Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "puri ...

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State Fair (1933)

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair. ...

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Prosperity (1932)

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

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Strange Justice (1932)

Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, ...

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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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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 Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)

The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio. ...

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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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Play Girl (1932)

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler. ...

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Alias the Doctor (1932)

Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the w ...

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Girl of the Rio (1932)

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover. ...

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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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Reckless Living (1931)

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies. ...

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Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose. ...

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Up Pops the Devil (1931)

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As th ...

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Men Call It Love (1931)

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity. ...

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It Pays to Advertise (1931)

To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" t ...

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No Limit (1931)

Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler. ...

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