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William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson (June 16, 1888 – September 28, 1947) was an American film actor.

Davidson attended Columbia University where he played football. He became a popular football star. This fame eventually led to his foray into motion pictures after he had spent some time as a lawyer. He started in films in 1914 with Vitagraph and supported well known stage and film actresses such as Ethel Barrymore, Mabel Taliaferro, Charlotte Walker, Olga Petrova, Viola Dana, June Caprice, Edna Goodrich, and Mae West. He appeared in 318 films between 1915 and 1949.

He was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and died in Santa Monica, California. His first Hollywood film was For the Honor of the Crew. Afterward, he appeared in many films, his best-known role was perhaps the Ship's captain in The Most Dangerous Game. He remained in show business until his sudden death after surgery in 1947.

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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994)

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television. ...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

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The Judge Steps Out (1947)

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...

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That Hagen Girl (1947)

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left ...

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That's My Man (1947)

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before. ...

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Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand. ...

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The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)

Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it. ...

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My Darling Clementine (1946)

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits. ...

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The Cat Creeps (1946)

A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman. ...

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Ding Dong Williams (1946)

Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of th ...

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Blonde Alibi (1946)

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past. ...

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The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft. ...

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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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Sing Your Way Home (1945)

A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances. ...

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Tell It to a Star (1945)

Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out ...

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Circumstantial Evidence (1945)

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax. ...

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The Man Who Walked Alone (1945)

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops ca ...

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See My Lawyer (1945)

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patr ...

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Greenwich Village (1944)

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue. ...

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In Society (1944)

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly. ...

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Make Your Own Bed (1944)

Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that hi ...

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A Night of Adventure (1944)

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges. ...

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Up in Arms (1944)

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship. ...

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Over the Wall (1943)

A prison Chaplain is forced to leave his post for health reasons, but fate provides him with another chance to reform an escaped convict. ...

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Murder on the Waterfront (1943)

A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation. ...

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The Good Fellows (1943)

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is ...

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Hers to Hold (1943)

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a cr ...

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Mission to Moscow (1943)

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism. ...

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Calaboose (1943)

A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede. ...

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Truck Busters (1943)

An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. ...

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Gentleman Jim (1942)

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world. ...

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Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official rec ...

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The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson ...

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The Affairs of Martha (1942)

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé. ...

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In This Our Life (1942)

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her. ...

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Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers... ...

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset ...

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The Male Animal (1942)

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose i ...

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Over My Dead Body (1942)

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck wit ...

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Remember the Day (1941)

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...

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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for. ...

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The Great Man's Lady (1941)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and ...

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Three Girls About Town (1941)

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hid ...

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Uncle Joe (1941)

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm. ...

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Week-End in Havana (1941)

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her ...

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Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute. ...

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Hold That Ghost (1941)

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers. ...

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Highway West (1941)

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber. ...

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Three Sons o' Guns (1941)

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men. ...

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In the Navy (1941)

Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the ...

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Thieves Fall Out (1941)

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broke ...

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The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of th ...

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Man-Made Monster (1941)

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding. ...

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San Francisco Docks (1940)

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her. Cassidy is murdered that night and Johnny is jailed for the crime. Kitty, her father ...

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Charter Pilot (1940)

US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong. ...

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Lady with Red Hair (1940)

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top. ...

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Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England. ...

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Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)

A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry. ...

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Seven Sinners (1940)

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims. ...

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Hired Wife (1940)

Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses. ...

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Maryland (1940)

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt. ...

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My Love Came Back (1940)

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins whe ...

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Sailor's Lady (1940)

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship. ...

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Florian (1940)

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses. ...

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Girl in 313 (1940)

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks? ...

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Lillian Russell (1940)

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star. ...

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On Their Own (1940)

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue. ...

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Half a Sinner (1940)

Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with co ...

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Granny Get Your Gun (1940)

An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges. ...

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My Little Chickadee (1940)

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion wi ...

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Invisible Stripes (1939)

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison. ...

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Private Detective (1939)

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire. ...

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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop. ...

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Honeymoon in Bali (1939)

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a ...

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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on th ...

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Hidden Power (1939)

Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situat ...

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Each Dawn I Die (1939)

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him. ...

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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...

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Naughty But Nice (1939)

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is expose ...

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On Trial (1939)

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified. ...

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Sudden Money (1939)

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pur ...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker. ...

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Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put ...

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Tail Spin (1939)

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot ...

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Blackwell's Island (1939)

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...

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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk. ...

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Off the Record (1939)

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison. ...

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Illegal Traffic (1938)

G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins t ...

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There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...

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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938)

A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy. ...

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Letter of Introduction (1938)

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hid ...

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Racket Busters (1938)

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket. ...

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Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot. ...

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Blockade (1938)

A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage. ...

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You and Me (1938)

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in l ...

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Cocoanut Grove (1938)

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub. ...

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The Jury's Secret (1938)

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial. ...

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Hollywood Hotel (1938)

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact m ...

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Sergeant Murphy (1938)

An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter. ...

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Love on Toast (1937)

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosi ...

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The Hurricane (1937)

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tro ...

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Something to Sing About (1937)

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss. ...

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Behind the Mike (1937)

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor. ...

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It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound. ...

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Paradise Isle (1937)

Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita). ...

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Easy Living (1937)

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away somethin ...

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Ever Since Eve (1937)

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie. ...

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Marry the Girl (1937)

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos. ...

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The Road Back (1937)

After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. ...

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Melody for Two (1937)

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band. ...

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Let Them Live (1937)

A young man goes up against a crooked town boss. ...

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Marked Woman (1937)

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. ...

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Midnight Court (1937)

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves. ...

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Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don't count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his s ...

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Earthworm Tractors (1936)

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl. ...

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Satan Met a Lady (1936)

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief. ...

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The Big Noise (1936)

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 ...

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Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)

A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it. ...

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Fatal Lady (1936)

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

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The Singing Kid (1936)

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines. ...

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Road Gang (1936)

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. ...

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Love on a Bet (1936)

An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money. ...

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You May Be Next! (1936)

Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal. ...

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Dangerous (1935)

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play. ...

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Show Them No Mercy! (1935)

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. ...

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In Person (1935)

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status. ...

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Special Agent (1935)

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. ...

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Redheads on Parade (1935)

A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support. ...

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Woman Wanted (1935)

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process ...

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Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career. ...

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Go Into Your Dance (1935)

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters. ...

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A Night at the Ritz (1935)

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef. ...

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Straight from the Heart (1935)

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent ...

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Death Flies East (1935)

Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of ...

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Sweet Music (1935)

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York. ...

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Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory. ...

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Bordertown (1935)

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss. ...

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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)

A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen. ...

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The Secret Bride (1934)

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. ...

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Imitation of Life (1934)

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way. ...

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The St. Louis Kid (1934)

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott a ...

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The Dragon Murder Case (1934)

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be ...

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Housewife (1934)

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and gi ...

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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eug ...

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Fog Over Frisco (1934)

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. ...

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Upperworld (1934)

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire. ...

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Laughing Boy (1934)

A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast. ...

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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 Killer (1933)

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star. ...

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Female (1933)

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer. ...

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Meet the Baron (1933)

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school. ...

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I'm No Angel (1933)

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her deare ...

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Torch Singer (1933)

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up. ...

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How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action (1933)

Bobby Jones is playing golf with his buddies, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched by a drunken juggler. ...

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The Intruder (1933)

A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island. ...

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Dangerously Yours (1933)

A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend. ...

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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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Hello, Everybody! (1933)

The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require fl ...

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The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter. ...

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The Animal Kingdom (1932)

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not b ...

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Central Park (1932)

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end. ...

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Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known. ...

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The Sport Parade (1932)

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation. ...

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The Pride of the Legion (1932)

After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters. ...

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Her Mad Night (1932)

A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter. ...

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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two ...

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The Thirteenth Guest (1932)

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior. ...

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Is My Face Red? (1932)

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep tr ...

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Scarface (1932)

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...

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The Lost Squadron (1932)

When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director. ...

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Sky Devils (1932)

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump. ...

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The Menace (1932)

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. ...

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Half Holiday (1931)

Andy Clyde trying to wear the pants in the family. ...

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Graft (1931)

Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election. ...

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The Secret Call (1931)

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indi ...

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The Vice Squad (1931)

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. ...

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Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star. ...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 2: 'Chip Shots' (1931)

Bobby Jones teaches a group of truant businessman how to improve their chip shots. ...

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Dishonored (1931)

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians. ...

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Captain Applejack (1931)

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property. ...

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No Limit (1931)

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

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