A snooty blue-blooded English family learns a bitter lesson about the realities of lower class living in this British comedy....
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1945
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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1943
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In this lively boxing comedy, Steve Bishop is a cowboy who works a waiter in an Italian restaurant. He agrees to participate...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Sidney Toler made his second appearance as oriental sleuth Charlie Chan in the above-average Charlie Chan in Reno. It all...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Oklahoma Frontier was Johnny Mack Brown's second starring western for Universal. On the eve of his honeymoon with new bride...
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Producer
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1939
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With the 1939 Johnny Mack Brown western Desperate Trails, veteran B-flick director Albert Ray set up shop at Universal....
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Director, Producer
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1939
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In this drama, a woman is betrothed to a district attorney. When a man is falsely convicted of murder and condemned to...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this sunny western, a mischievous young girl living in the Arizona territory during the 1870s, causes all kinds of...
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Screen Story
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1938
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In this comedy a young girl dreams of becoming a Hollywood movie star. The plucky gal decides to grab the bull's horns one...
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1938
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1938
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The Jones Family is at it again in Everybody's Baby, their first 1939 release (previewed in 1938). This time, the Joneses'...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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While New York Sleeps is when fast-talking reporter Barney Callahan (Michael Whalen) prowls the night beat for a great...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The 45 Fathers of the title are the elderly members of the Gun and Spear Club, all of whom jointly adopt mischievous orphan...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in this middling western entry. The former high-school football hero plays a Texas Ranger, who early...
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Director
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1937
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This above-average Johnny Mack Brown Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures features the bizarre spectacle of...
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Director
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1936
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An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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A love triangle amidst the world of musical entertainment provides the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1934
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The second of two low-budget murder melodramas starring Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot, A Shriek in the Night is not quite as...
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Director
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1933
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An oil rigger, laboring in the Singapore swamps, falls in love with an English socialite and causes all kinds of problems in...
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Director
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1933
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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Director
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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Director
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1932
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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1932
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1932
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Based on Dion Boucicauls's Irish play, this early talkie from lower-echelon company Tiffany starred one of the victims of...
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Director
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1930
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Elisha Cook Jr. made his screen debut in this early exploitation talkie from De Forest Phonofilm. Cook and Pauline Drake...
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1930
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1930
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In this early talkie, a burlesque team grows tired of playing rural gigs. When the fellow is offered a chance to do a solo...
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Director
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1929
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William Russell is appropriately cast as "The Ne'er-do-well" in the 1928 military comedy Woman Wise. Stationed in Persia,...
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Director
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1928
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Failing miserably in the business world, a college hero becomes a lifeguard and falls for a pretty concessionaire in this...
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Director
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1928
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The protagonists of Thief in the Dark are the members of a travelling spiritualist troupe, criminals all. When one of their...
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Director
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1928
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This flimsy but entertaining comedy-drama was based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche. It's a typical yarn of the era, about...
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1927
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1927
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It's not for nothing that wimpish Willie Angle (Johnny Harron) is known as "Willie the Worm." Victimized and dumped on by...
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Director
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1927
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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Director
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1926
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who had recently graduated from Paramount's talent school, has one of the leads in this comedy-drama,...
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Director
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1926
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Charles Ray returns to playing a bashful rural boy in this character study, loosely based on the James Whitcomb Riley poem....
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Screenwriter
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1923
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Although Charles Ray doesn't play one of his country boy roles in his first picture for United Artists, John Paul Bart could...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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1920
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Nearly the only possession left by Mr. Bell to his children Joy (Elinor Fair) and Harry (Jack Rollens) is a thoroughbred...
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1919
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1919
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The title to this lively light comedy came from the old saying "marry in haste, repent at leisure." Sam Morgan (Albert Ray)...
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1919
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