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Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor. He appeared in 204 films between 1919 and 1950. He is probably best known as the warmhearted bootlegger Paddy Ryan in The Public Enemy (1931) and as Detective Sergeant Henderson pursuing the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera (1935). He also appeared as Jonesy (the older Paramount gate guard) in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, as well as made a cameo appearance at the very beginning and very end of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short Who Killed Who? (1943).

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Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. ...

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Easter Parade (1948)

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing t ...

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Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)

Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth abou ...

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Merton of the Movies (1947)

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract ...

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The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest. ...

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The Hucksters (1947)

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity. ...

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High Barbaree (1947)

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue. ...

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Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'. ...

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Undercurrent (1946)

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother. ...

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Courage of Lassie (1946)

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicio ...

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Boys' Ranch (1946)

A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker. ...

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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

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 beautifu ...

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Up Goes Maisie (1946)

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas. ...

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The Harvey Girls (1946)

On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop. ...

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Adventure (1945)

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian. ...

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They Were Expendable (1945)

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squad ...

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The Great American Mug (1945)

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years. ...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. ...

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A Gun in His Hand (1945)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime. ...

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Anchors Aweigh (1945)

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. ...

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The Clock (1945)

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City. ...

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Main Street After Dark (1945)

A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang. ...

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Gentle Annie (1944)

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal ...

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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. ...

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Return from Nowhere (1944)

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams. ...

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Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

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. ...

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Rationing (1944)

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing. ...

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Shoe Shine Boy (1943)

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m. ...

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Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself. ...

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Best Foot Forward (1943)

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 Hele ...

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Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realiz ...

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Who Killed Who? (1943)

A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house. ...

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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)

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. ...

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Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant. ...

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Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity. ...

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The Human Comedy (1943)

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. ...

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The Greatest Gift (1942)

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitude. He eventually finds a way to. ...

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The Omaha Trail (1942)

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war. ...

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Jackass Mail (1942)

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father. ...

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Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence? ...

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Inflation (1942)

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States. ...

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No Time for Comedy (1940)

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success. ...

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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventu ...

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A Fugitive from Justice (1940)

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family. ...

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Hot Steel (1940)

Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues. ...

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I Take This Oath (1940)

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

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Double Alibi (1940)

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect. ...

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The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf. ...

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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself. ...

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Streets of New York (1939)

Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraha ...

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Sergeant Madden (1939)

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime. ...

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You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after h ...

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Made for Each Other (1939)

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship. ...

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Professor Beware (1938)

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way. ...

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Boy of the Streets (1938)

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative. ...

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Wells Fargo (1937)

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 ...

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Trapped by G-Men (1937)

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men. ...

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Super-Sleuth (1937)

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes. ...

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New Faces of 1937 (1937)

A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit. ...

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The Frame-Up (1937)

A detective investigates a racing scam. ...

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A Star Is Born (1937)

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. S ...

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Waikiki Wedding (1937)

Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to ...

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Park Avenue Logger (1937)

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This en ...

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The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment. ...

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Girl Overboard (1937)

A beautiful girl on a passenger ship is suspected of murder. ...

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We Who Are About to Die (1937)

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life. ...

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Sinner Take All (1936)

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family. ...

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Jailbreak (1936)

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars. ...

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Desire (1936)

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love. ...

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At Sea Ashore (1936)

Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to pick his niece who's arriving from the old country, so he gives Patsy cab fare and sends her. She forgets he ...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather. ...

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The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful so ...

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A Night at the Opera (1935)

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. ...

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Waterfront Lady (1935)

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

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Diamond Jim (1935)

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady. ...

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Stolen Harmony (1935)

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate ...

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Star of Midnight (1935)

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

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The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1935)

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will b ...

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A Wicked Woman (1934)

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him. ...

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Return of the Terror (1934)

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn. ...

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Bottoms Up (1934)

Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness. ...

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The Big Shakedown (1934)

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products. ...

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Lady for a Day (1933)

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she ...

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Penthouse (1933)

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when ...

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Midnight Mary (1933)

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs. ...

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Don't Bet on Love (1933)

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him readjust to life as a plumber. ...

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Bed of Roses (1933)

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin. ...

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Picture Snatcher (1933)

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist. ...

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Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. ...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. ...

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Frisco Jenny (1933)

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she be ...

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The Kid from Spain (1932)

Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force hi ...

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Blonde Venus (1932)

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician. ...

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Blessed Event (1932)

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press. ...

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American Madness (1932)

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day. ...

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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 Dark Horse (1932)

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organiz ...

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Night World (1932)

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incide ...

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The Arm of the Law (1932)

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal. ...

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Play Girl (1932)

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

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The Big Timer (1932)

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame. ...

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The Beast of the City (1932)

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte. ...

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Two Kinds of Women (1932)

The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue. ...

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Taxi! (1931)

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the wom ...

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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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Fanny Foley Herself (1931)

A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters. ...

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The Public Defender (1931)

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds. ...

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Three Who Loved (1931)

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling. ...

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The Public Enemy (1931)

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and riva ...

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The Single Sin (1931)

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when frie ...

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