
Birthday:
08-09-1891
Deathday:
05-18-1961 (69 years)
Birthplace:
Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Henry O'Neill (1891–1961) was an American film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly roles during the 1930s and 1940s.
O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage.
In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles.
Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.
O'Neill began his acting career on the stage, after dropping out of college to join a traveling theatre company. He served in the military in World War I, then returned to the stage.
In the early 1930s he began appearing in films, including The Big Shakedown, Santa Fe Trail, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, and The Reckless Moment. His last film was The Wings of Eagles.
Henry O'Neill died in 1961 at the age of 69.
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Santa Fe Trail
Act like Cyrus Brody
event1940 star_border 5.7
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As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Jezebel
Act like General Theopholus Bogardus
event1938 star_border 7
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In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Holiday Affair
Act like Mr. Crowley
event1949 star_border 6.8
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Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
The Get-Away
Act like Warden Alcott
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Nothing But Trouble
Act like Mr. Hawkley
event1944 star_border 6
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Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.
The Heavenly Body
Act like Professor Stowe
event1944 star_border 5.7
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The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
Castle on the Hudson
Act like District Attorney
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Scandal Sheet
Act like Charlie Barnes
event1952 star_border 7
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A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
The Walking Dead
Act like District Attorney Werner
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Alias Nick Beal
Act like Judge Ben Hobbs
event1949 star_border 6.9
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Bullets or Ballots
Act like Ward Bryant
event1936 star_border 6.6
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After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
The Reckless Moment
Act like Tom Harper
event1949 star_border 6.8
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After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
No Man of Her Own
Act like Mr. Harkness
event1950 star_border 6.9
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A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Girl Crazy
Act like Mr. Danny Churchill, Sr.
event1943 star_border 5.6
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Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Johnny Eager
Act like A.J. Verne
event1941 star_border 6.1
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A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Convicted
Act like Detective Dorn
event1950 star_border 6.2
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A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Strange Bargain
Act like Timothy Hearne
event1949 star_border 5.7
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Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
The People Against O'Hara
Act like Judge Keating
event1951 star_border 5.7
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A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Shadow of the Thin Man
Act like Major Jason I. Sculley
event1941 star_border 7
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High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Midnight
Act like Edgar V. Ingersoll
event1934 star_border 5
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Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
The Florentine Dagger
Act like Victor Ballau
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
A Guy Named Joe
Act like Col. Sykes
event1943 star_border 6.5
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A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Thousands Cheer
Act like Captain in Frank Morgan Skit (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
Knute Rockne All American
Act like Doctor
event1940 star_border 6
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The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Lady Killer
Act like Ramick
event1933 star_border 6.7
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
The Second Woman
Act like Ben Sheppard
event1950 star_border 5.5
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In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who's being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution...or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he's in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.
Air Raid Wardens
Act like Rittenhause
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
The Wings of Eagles
Act like Capt. Spear
event1957 star_border 6.2
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The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Act like Judge
event1938 star_border 7.2
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A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
Untamed
Act like Squire O'Neill
event1955 star_border 5.6
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When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Dodge City
Act like Colonel Dodge
event1939 star_border 6.9
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In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
The Human Comedy
Act like Charles Steed
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Two Girls and a Sailor
Act like John Dyckman Brown II
event1944 star_border 5.7
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A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Special Agent
Act like District Attorney Roger Quinn
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
You're My Everything
Act like Prof. Adams
event1949 star_border 3.3
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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 beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
The Key
Act like Dan
event1934 star_border 4.9
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A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Fashions of 1934
Act like Duryea
event1934 star_border 6.4
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When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Whistling in the Dark
Act like Philip Post
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
The Man with Two Faces
Act like Inspector Crane
event1934 star_border 6.5
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Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
Whistling in Brooklyn
Act like Inspector Holcomb
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Act like Dr. Emile Roux
event1936 star_border 6.8
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A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Blossoms in the Dust
Act like Judge
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Flirtation Walk
Act like Gen. John "Jack" Brent Fitts
event1934 star_border 5.5
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A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
Black Fury
Act like John W. Hendricks
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
The Beginning or the End
Act like Gen. Thomas F. Farrell
event1947 star_border 6.5
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The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
Racket Busters
Act like Governor
event1938 star_border 5.1
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A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Juarez
Act like General Miguel Miramon
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
The Great O'Malley
Act like Defense Attorney
event1937 star_border 6.7
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His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
Honky Tonk
Act like Daniel Wells
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
The Big Shakedown
Act like Mr. Sheffner
event1934 star_border 5.6
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Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Tortilla Flat
Act like Father Ramon
event1942 star_border 5.4
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Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Act like Dr. Lentz
event1940 star_border 6.3
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True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
This Time for Keeps
Act like Arthur Freeman
event1942 star_border 6
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A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
The Bugle Sounds
Act like Lt. Col. Harry Seton
event1942 star_border 6
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An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
White Cargo
Act like The Reverend Dr. Roberts
event1942 star_border 5.8
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In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
The House on 56th Street
Act like Baxter - the Laywer (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.2
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A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
The Green Years
Act like Canon Roche
event1946 star_border 6.5
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An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Two Against the World
Act like Jim Carstairs
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
The Sun Shines Bright
Act like Joe D. Habersham
event1953 star_border 6.5
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With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
I Loved a Woman
Act like Mr. Farrell
event1933 star_border 4.8
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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.
Men of Boys Town
Act like Mr. Maitland
event1941 star_border 6.1
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Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Angels Wash Their Faces
Act like A.H. Remson
event1939 star_border 6.4
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A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
First Lady
Act like George Mason
event1937 star_border 6.2
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A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Dangerous Partners
Act like Duffy
event1945 star_border 6.3
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A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Billy the Kid
Act like Tim Ward
event1941 star_border 4.7
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Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Wells Fargo
Act like Henry Wells
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Bedside
Act like Dr. William Chester
event1934 star_border 5.6
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Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
The Personality Kid
Act like Stephens
event1934 star_border 4.2
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An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Brother Rat
Act like Colonel Ramm
event1938 star_border 5
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Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Wonder Bar
Act like Richard
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Act like District Attorney C. Manchester
event1935 star_border 6
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A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
'Til We Meet Again
Act like Dr. Cameron
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
Act like Fernand de Marnay
event1934 star_border 6
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A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
Now I'll Tell
Act like Tommy Doran
event1934 star_border 4.8
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A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
Submarine D-1
Act like Admiral Thomas
event1937 star_border 4.7
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Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwater, however, our two heroes are inseparable.
Lost Angel
Act like Professor Josh Pringle
event1943 star_border 7.5
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Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
Sweet Music
Act like Louis Trumble
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Act like Sen. H. Baldwin
event1939 star_border 6
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Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.
Boulder Dam
Act like Mr. Agnew
event1936 star_border 4
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Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Stranded
Act like Mr. Tuthill
event1935 star_border 5.8
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A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Midnight Alibi
Act like Ardsley
event1934 star_border 6
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An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
The Great Hotel Murder
Act like Mr. Claude Harvey
event1935 star_border 6
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Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Girls on Probation
Act like Judge
event1938 star_border 5.9
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A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Lucky Night
Act like Calvin Jordan
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
From Headquarters
Act like Inspector Donnelly
event1933 star_border 5.8
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When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Side Streets
Act like George Richards
event1934 star_border 5.3
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A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne'er-do-well.
The World Changes
Act like Orin Nordholm Sr.
event1933 star_border 4.8
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Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Massacre
Act like J.R. Dickinson
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
The Return of October
Act like President Hotchkiss
event1948 star_border 5.8
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A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
Rationing
Act like Senator Edward White
event1944 star_border 3
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A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
Road Gang
Act like George Winston
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Living on Velvet
Act like Harold Thornton
event1935 star_border 5.5
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A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Act like D.M. Gateway
event1937 star_border 5.3
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A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
The Go-Getter
Act like Commander Tisdale
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Dr. Socrates
Act like Greer
event1935 star_border 6.4
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Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
Everybody's Hobby
Act like Thomas 'Tom' Leslie
event1939 star_border 5.7
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A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
The Flying Missile
Act like Thomas A. Scott
event1950 star_border 5.4
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A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Money and the Woman
Act like Mr. Mason
event1940 star_border 4.3
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An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Dinky
Act like Col. Barnes
event1935 star_border 6.7
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A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Scarlet Angel
Act like Morgan Caldwell
event1952 star_border 5.1
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After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
The Family Secret
Act like Donald Muir
event1951 star_border 5.7
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When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Madame du Barry
Act like Duc de Choiseul
event1934 star_border 4.8
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Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV.
I've Got Your Number
Act like Mr. John P. Schuyler
event1934 star_border 6
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Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Sons of Liberty
Act like Member of Continental Congress
event1939 star_border 6
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Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
Bordertown
Act like Attorney J.L. Chase (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.9
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An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
White Banners
Act like Sam Trimble
event1938 star_border 5.8
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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 Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
We're in the Money
Act like Stephen Dinsmore
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Anchors Aweigh
Act like Admiral Hammond
event1945 star_border 6.8
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Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
The Virginian
Act like Mr. Taylor
event1946 star_border 6.1
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Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Act like Judge
event1938 star_border 6.9
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Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Upperworld
Act like Banker Making Toast
event1934 star_border 6.3
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A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
A Child Is Born
Act like Dr. Lee
event1939 star_border 6.5
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A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Leather Gloves
Act like Dudley
event1948
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A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
Barbary Coast Gent
Act like Colonel Watrous
event1944 star_border 4.6
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Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Twenty Million Sweethearts
Act like Lemuel Tappan
event1934 star_border 6
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Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
Born to Sing
Act like Frank Eastman
event1942 star_border 5
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A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
The Man Who Dared
Act like Matthew Carter
event1939 star_border 5
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An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.
The Fighting 69th
Act like Colonel
event1940 star_border 5.4
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Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Fog Over Frisco
Act like Oren Porter
event1934 star_border 6.1
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Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Draegerman Courage
Act like Dr. Thomas Haslett
event1937 star_border 6.5
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After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Alias Mary Dow
Act like Henry Dow
event1935 star_border 6.2
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A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Personal Maid's Secret
Act like Mr. Wilton Palmer
event1935 star_border 5.5
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A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Gentlemen Are Born
Act like Mr. Harper
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Oil for the Lamps of China
Act like Edward Hartford
event1935 star_border 7.3
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An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
The Big Noise
Act like Charlie Caldwell
event1936 star_border 5
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The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Calling Philo Vance
Act like Markham
event1940 star_border 5.8
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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 confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
The White Angel
Act like Dr. Scott
event1936 star_border 8
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In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Act like Attorney Kellogg
event1939 star_border 6
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FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Four Wives
Act like Dr. Clinton Forrest, Sr.
event1939 star_border 5.1
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In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Journal of a Crime
Act like Doctor
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Wings of the Navy
Act like Prologue Speaker
event1939 star_border 6
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Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
While the Patient Slept
Act like Elihu Dimuck
event1935 star_border 6.4
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A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
The Singing Marine
Act like Captain Skinner
event1937 star_border 4
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Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Dark Shadows
Act like Dr. Everett Colner
event1944 star_border 9.3
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A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
Best Foot Forward
Act like Maj. Roger W. Reeber
event1943 star_border 6
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Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Service with the Colors
Act like Colonel Nelson
event1940 star_border 4.4
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Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Rainbow on the River
Act like Father Josef
event1936 star_border 9
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A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Son of a Sailor
Act like Naval Officer
event1933 star_border 5
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A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Act like Galway
event1941 star_border 5
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Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
The Golden Arrow
Act like Mr. Appleby
event1936 star_border 6.1
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A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
The Secret Bride
Act like Jim Lansdale
event1934 star_border 6.3
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Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Freshman Love
Act like President Simpkins
event1936 star_border 6
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A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Bad Bascomb
Act like Gov. Winton
event1946 star_border 6.2
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A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Lewis J. Malbery
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
They Drive by Night
Act like District Attorney (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
The Life of Emile Zola
Act like Colonel Picquart
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
Bright Lights
Act like J.C. Anderson
event1935 star_border 4.5
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Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Down in San Diego
Act like Col. Halliday
event1941 star_border 5.5
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A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
Three Wise Fools
Act like Prof. Horace Appleby
event1946 star_border 5
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An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
Act like Director (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.2
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This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
Little Mister Jim
Act like Chaplain
event1947 star_border 4
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After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
This Man's Navy
Act like Lt. Cmdr. Roger Graystone
event1945 star_border 6.4
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During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
For God and Country
Act like Captain Chaplain
event1943
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The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
Anthony Adverse
Act like Father Xavier
event1936 star_border 5.7
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Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
Green Light
Act like Dr. Endicott
event1937 star_border 6.3
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A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
Big Hearted Herbert
Act like Goodrich Sr.
event1934 star_border 3.5
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After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Murder in the Clouds
Act like John Brownell
event1934 star_border 4.7
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Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
The Milkman
Act like Bradley, Sr.
event1950 star_border 8
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A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
Yellow Jack
Act like Gorgas
event1938 star_border 5.6
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A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
Stand by for Action
Act like Cmdr. Stone M.C
event1942 star_border 7
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U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
Marked Woman
Act like Arthur Sheldon
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
The Kennel Murder Case
Act like Dubois (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.2
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Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
The Chaser
Act like Mr. Calhoun
event1938 star_border 6
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Young America Flies
Act like Dr. Webster
event1940
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World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Main Street Today
Act like Vance Clark
event1944 star_border 6.2
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This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Act like Warden Kenneson
event1943 star_border 5.5
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In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
The Right Way
Act like Mr. Martin
event1939
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A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by the society, and in a vision her husband warns her to protect their son. She explains to him the danger in the type of patriotic business practiced by the club, and he agrees.
Between Two Women
Act like Larry Goff - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.9
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A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Keep Your Powder Dry
Act like Maj. Gen. Lee Rand
event1945 star_border 5.9
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A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Invisible Stripes
Act like Parole Officer Masters
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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