Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue...
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1973
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Sister Celestine
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1968
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The Trouble With Angels opens on the first day of school for a new batch of students at St. Francis Academy, run by a very...
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Sister Celestine
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1966
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Thunderstorm was produced in Spain by actress Binnie Barnes, though one suspects that most of the production details were...
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Producer
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1956
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In this adventure, set in North Africa, a secret agent must find a band of smugglers. The man who recommended her for the...
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Frisco
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1954
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Contessa,Nerina,Old Witch
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1953
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1950
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Shadow of the Eagle is set during the reign of Russia's Catherine the Great. Dashing Count Orlof (Richard Greene) is...
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Empress Catherine of Russia
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1950
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Janis Paige stars as Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi in this internationally produced melodrama. When Italian millionaire...
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Esther Clementi
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1950
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Disciples of "B"-picture stylist Edgar Ulmer will not be disappointed with Pirates of Capri. Lensed in Italy, the film stars...
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Queen Carolina
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1949
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After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
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1948
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In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that...
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Kiki Kelly
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1948
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In this drama, set in England, an honorable textbook writer in a village becomes friends with a pregnant girl. The...
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Natalie Bagshaw
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1947
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While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays...
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Mildred Prescott
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1946
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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Anne Bonney
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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Barbara
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1945
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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Eve Floogle
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1945
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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1944
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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Lil Darnish
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1944
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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May Hetherton
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1944
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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Aggie Dawlins
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1943
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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Lacey Miller
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1942
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Peggy
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1942
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Vi
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1942
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Myrtle Vantine
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1941
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This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble...
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Sybil Ash
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1941
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Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous...
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Faith Banner
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1941
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Sybil Barton
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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Countess
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1941
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This Thing Called Love extracts its laughs from the prehistoric concept of sexual frustration. Business partners...
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Charlotte Campbell
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1940
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Countess de Vaubert
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1940
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Jerry
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1939
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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Lady Arlington
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1939
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The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood)...
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Blanche
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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Cecil Carver
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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Milady De Winter
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1939
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of...
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1938
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Mrs. Simms
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1938
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1938
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Fifteen thousand dollars may have been a fortune back in 1938, but to high-powered literary agent Lynn Conway...
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Claudia Weston
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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Nazama
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1938
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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Lady Mere
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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Marilyn Joyce
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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Kay Swift
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1938
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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1938
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Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who...
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Henrietta Fairfax
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1937
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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Caroline Whipple
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1937
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Alice Munro
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1936
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Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in...
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Donna Lyons
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1936
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes...
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Della Lane
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1936
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Priscilla
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
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1936
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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Lillian Russell
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1935
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Binnie Barnes stars as Rina Sorel, a glamorous kleptomaniac who steals for the thrill of it. Specializing in uncut diamonds,...
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Rena Sorel
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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Olivia Karloff
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1935
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1934
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A British aristocrat and his son travel to Russia to embark upon a thrilling search for the father's other son, who was...
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Valerie Petrovna
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1934
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In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The...
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Helene Dupont
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1934
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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Alice Vaile
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1934
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The corpse of a hated man is discovered in this mystery. The police inspector and investigating doctor found their work...
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1934
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Rosita
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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In this thriller, the co-owner of a rubber plantation finds himself in trouble after he rejects the advances of his...
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1934
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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Katheryn Howard
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1933
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In this comedy a widow pretends to be Lord Grossmith's philandering wife in order to get a handsome lawyer to fall in love...
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1933
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In this comedy, a junior business partner must take a Scottish buyer out on the town. During dinner, the two get...
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1933
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1933
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Haughty Hollywood movie star Dorothy Kay (Constance Cummings) doesn't know it, but she has an exact double, impoverished...
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Lil Pickering
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1933
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In this British crime comedy, an Englishman is bequeathed a Chicago dairy by his late uncle. Once there, he learns that the...
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1932
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In this drama, set during the Depression, Charlie Stubbs tries to escape slum life by becoming a criminal. That doesn't work...
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1932
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In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His...
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1932
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In this British comedy, a fellow goes on a Spanish vacation and finds himself mistaken for a famous matador. Mayhem ensues...
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1932
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In this crime drama, a private eye is engaged to infiltrate the smugglers that murdered a nightclub owner. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1932
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Blackmailer Josser uses various disguises to work his schemes in vaudeville comedy with Lotinga portraying Josser. ~ Rovi...
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1931
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In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found...
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1931
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In this musical, an impoverished aristocrat's daughter tries for a singing career. She also falls in love with a radio star...
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1931
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In this British farce, a boy disregards his uncle's wishes and secretly marries his dream girl. The mayhem begins when the...
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Junetta
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1931
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