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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The inter ...

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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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Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy (1962)

Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself. ...

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Ellis in Freedomland (1952)

Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland. ...

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South of Caliente (1951)

"King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers stars with his real-life wife, Dale Evans, in this Western about a hardworking farmer who helps a struggling rancher by transporting her prize horse to Mexico. A fortuitous meeting with a fortune-teller (Charlita) -- who sp ...

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The Shanghai Chest (1948)

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man. ...

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Half Past Midnight (1948)

A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer. ...

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The Red Stallion (1947)

Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt. ...

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Suddenly It's Spring (1947)

A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce. ...

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Dangerous Money (1946)

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life. ...

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The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife. ...

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The Face of Marble (1946)

The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his wor ...

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She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic ...

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Hold That Blonde! (1945)

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some c ...

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The Red Dragon (1945)

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun. ...

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Pillow to Post (1945)

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the ...

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The Monster and the Ape (1945)

A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes. ...

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Music for Millions (1944)

Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow ...

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The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account. ...

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The Girl Who Dared (1944)

A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year. ...

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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain. ...

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Home in Indiana (1944)

'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly th ...

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort. ...

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The Kansan (1943)

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspe ...

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Dixie (1943)

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of D ...

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Cabin in the Sky (1943)

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do ri ...

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Cinderella Swings It (1943)

Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career ...

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The Powers Girl (1943)

Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy. ...

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The Hidden Hand (1942)

Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money. ...

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Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery. ...

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Busses Roar (1942)

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields. ...

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A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results. ...

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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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Juke Girl (1942)

During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps org ...

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Whispering Ghosts (1942)

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain. ...

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The Body Disappears (1941)

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several ...

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Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941. ...

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Nothing But the Truth (1941)

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours. ...

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The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fi ...

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Minstrel Days (1941)

This Vitaphone musical featurette features a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen Foster) with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface, via stock footage from earlier Warners films, inserted ...

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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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Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife. ...

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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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Scattergood Baines (1941)

Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of ...

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Road Show (1941)

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ...

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Flight from Destiny (1941)

After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forg ...

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High Sierra (1941)

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort. ...

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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)

When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Amble ...

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Money and the Woman (1940)

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him. ...

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The Ghost Breakers (1940)

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cra ...

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Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat. ...

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I Take This Woman (1940)

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums. ...

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Slightly Honorable (1939)

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name. ...

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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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The Covered Trailer (1939)

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-fi ...

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Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl ...

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At the Circus (1939)

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to fi ...

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Blackmail (1939)

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him. ...

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Way Down South (1939)

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing ...

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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers. ...

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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate ...

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The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes i ...

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Blondie (1938)

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family. ...

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Spring Madness (1938)

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson. ...

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Straight, Place and Show (1938)

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée. ...

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Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try ...

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I'm from the City (1938)

Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without bei ...

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Vivacious Lady (1938)

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer. ...

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Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat an ...

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Merrily We Live (1938)

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine. ...

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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, ...

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Everybody's Doing It (1938)

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze. ...

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Crashing Hollywood (1938)

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood. ...

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Saturday's Heroes (1937)

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy. ...

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The Lady Fights Back (1937)

Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order ...

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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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Meet the Missus (1937)

A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest. ...

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You Can't Buy Luck (1937)

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime. ...

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Breezing Home (1937)

Bookmakers try to fix a horse race. ...

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Racing Lady (1937)

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer. ...

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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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Deep South (1937)

1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel. ...

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Night Waitress (1936)

Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the la ...

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General Spanky (1936)

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, th ...

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Thank You, Jeeves! (1936)

Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble. ...

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Mummy's Boys (1936)

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse. ...

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Down the Stretch (1936)

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race. ...

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The Green Pastures (1936)

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans. ...

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The Bride Walks Out (1936)

Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael ...

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Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blo ...

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Two in Revolt (1936)

A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race. ...

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Silly Billies (1936)

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields earl ...

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Muss 'em Up (1936)

Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, an ...

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The Littlest Rebel (1935)

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg Pres ...

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To Beat the Band (1935)

An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself. ...

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Hot Tip (1935)

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies. ...

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Jalna (1935)

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm. ...

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The Arizonian (1935)

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed out ...

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The Nitwits (1935)

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher. ...

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Hit and Rum (1935)

Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The nex ...

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Raised and Called (1935)

Chandler induces Kennedy to ask the boss for a raise, and to pretend he is married, because the chief has a soft spot for his married employees. So Tom gets a $10 raise, and then the boss invites himself out to his house for dinner and to meet the missus, ...

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Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector ...

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Horse Heir (1935)

Chick is trying to sell his cheap horse to a lady with a grating and annoying voice...sort of like Betty Boop. Jeanie is married to Tom and apparently she got the money from him. However, the pair accidentally take the wrong horse...instead of a broken dow ...

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West of the Pecos (1934)

Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling. ...

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Kentucky Kernels (1934)

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south ...

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Little Miss Marker (1934)

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being ...

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The Monster Walks (1932)

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her fo ...

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The Guilty Generation (1931)

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety. ...

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Up Pops the Devil (1931)

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As th ...

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Virtuous Husband (1931)

When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life. ...

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