Broadway star Patricia Wallis (Evelyn Venable), after a quarrel, leaves the new show produced by Jimmy Hart (Victor Jory) and, not realizing that Hart is in love with her, she runs off to California with the wealthy, stodgy Freddy Arnold (Theodore von Eltz) with the announced intention of getting married. Jimmy discovers that Pat and …
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The 1931 drama Murder At Midnight starring Alice White and Aileen Pringle (this movie is public domain) Learn more about Alice at http://www.alicewhite.org source
This is an adaption and the first sound version of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. During the 1830’s in London, Oliver was born in an workhouse (a refuge for the poor). Later, at the age of nine, Oliver is send to an orphanage. After being abused, he runs away and falls into the hand …
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A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner. — Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, produced by Ray Kirkwood, written by Norman Springer, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Detective Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain, Sheila Terry as Edith Bentley, Zarah …
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Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try to recover a jewel-encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom …
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Cornelia Bullock, a spoiled socialite offers a vagrant, Godfrey Smith, five dollars to be her “forgotten man” for a scavenger hunt during the Great Depression. Godfrey is seriously angry and causes her to fall on a pile of ashes. Cornelia leaves in a fury — much to the joy of her younger sister Irene who …
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Edward Shaw a LA builder and architect is out of work. He meets Doris Hillmann who has a business proposal for him. They would buy land together, Edward would build houses, Doris would sell them and her husband Gus will contribute half a million dollars as capital. Soon after accepting the proposal and starting an …
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Different people search for different reason for “The Green Goddess”, the Guatemalan idol. A friend of Tarzan, D’Arnot, has crashed in Guatemala and is now held by a jungle tribe. Two other expeditions, one lead by Major Martling and one by Ula Vale whose fiance died in an earlier one, are looking for the valuable …
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“The Hoodlum” is a 1951 American film noir directed by Max Nosseck featuring Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan and Lisa Golm. The movie is about an ex-convict, who plans a bank robbery that implicates his brother. — Directed by Max Nosseck, produced by Maurice Kosloff, screenplay by Sam Neuman and Nat Tanchuck, story by …
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