Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American stage and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-faced demeanor with a small but powerful, stocky physique.
Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent his childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada, where he was ill treated. About age eleven, Ford ran away and did odd jobs, later becoming an usher in a theatre.
Following his discharge from the Army after WWI, he became a vaudeville actor in a stock company before performing on Broadway.
He started on a film career when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him a part in the film Possessed (1931) and went on to appear in over 200 films, including 13 directed by John Ford.
Wallace Ford is buried in an unmarked grave in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery.
From Wikipedia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.006 |
| Birthday | 1898-02-11 |
| Place of Birth | Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Samuel Jones Grundy, Wally Ford, Samuel Grundy Jones, |
1945
Spellbound
7.4/898
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...
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Spellbound
1946
Black Angel
6.06/50
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a...
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Black Angel
1946
Dead Reckoning
6.748/143
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publ...
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Dead Reckoning
1932
The Beast of the City
5.9/22
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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The Beast of the City
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.5/1048
Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle a...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1940
The Mummy's Hand
5.7/91
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...
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The Mummy's Hand
1941
A Man Betrayed
5.4/11
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is ac...
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A Man Betrayed
1951
He Ran All the Way
7.2/55
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
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He Ran All the Way
1941
Blues in the Night
6.2/25
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find...
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Blues in the Night
1965
A Patch of Blue
7.6/109
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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A Patch of Blue
1946
Crack-Up
5.6/29
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Crack-Up
1947
T-Men
6.8/82
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
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T-Men
1950
The Furies
7.1/68
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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The Furies
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
5.662/71
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...
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The Mummy's Tomb
1935
One Frightened Night
5.5/13
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before t...
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One Frightened Night
1942
All Through the Night
6.957/58
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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All Through the Night
1955
A Lawless Street
5.4/30
A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
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A Lawless Street
1956
Johnny Concho
3.7/3
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
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Johnny Concho
1948
Coroner Creek
6.1/29
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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Coroner Creek
1959
Warlock
6.7/155
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire t...
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Warlock
1943
The Ape Man
4.2/40
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
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The Ape Man
1933
Employees' Entrance
6.3/23
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 y...
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Employees' Entrance
1935
The Informer
6.748/107
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The Informer
1954
3 Ring Circus
5.5/20
Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different drea...
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3 Ring Circus
1939
Back Door to Heaven
5/2
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Back Door to Heaven
1950
The Breaking Point
7.1/79
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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The Breaking Point
1935
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
4.2/22
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession o...
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1949
The Set-Up
7.3/157
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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The Set-Up
1934
The Lost Patrol
6.4/66
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...
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The Lost Patrol
1955
The Man from Laramie
7.179/235
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillin...
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The Man from Laramie
1936
The Rogues' Tavern
5.8/5
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
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The Rogues' Tavern
1935
The Whole Town's Talking
6.802/53
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h...
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The Whole Town's Talking
1944
Secret Command
6.8/4
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jef...
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Secret Command
1948
Shed No Tears
5/16
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Shed No Tears
1931
Possessed
7.1/36
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer c...
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Possessed
1933
Three-Cornered Moon
5.2/5
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market...
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Three-Cornered Moon
1958
The Last Hurrah
7.138/58
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...
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The Last Hurrah
1956
Thunder Over Arizona
6/2
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in ba...
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Thunder Over Arizona
1954
Destry
6.1/34
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
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Destry
1943
The Cross of Lorraine
6.2/21
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
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The Cross of Lorraine
1952
Flesh and Fury
6.125/8
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the...
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Flesh and Fury
1946
The Green Years
6.5/14
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
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The Green Years
1934
Men in White
6/13
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he...
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Men in White
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
0/0
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1954
She Couldn't Say No
5.6/16
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
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She Couldn't Say No
1948
The Man from Texas
6/1
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suff...
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The Man from Texas
1951
Warpath
5.8/13
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but...
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Warpath
1955
Wichita
6.3/52
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect...
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Wichita
1956
The First Texan
6.1/8
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any...
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The First Texan
1932
The Wet Parade
5.8/4
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
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The Wet Parade
1935
Swellhead
0/0
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-f...
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Swellhead
1931
X Marks the Spot
6/3
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will...
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X Marks the Spot
1942
Scattergood Survives a Murder
4.5/3
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
1937
Exiled to Shanghai
4.9/4
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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Exiled to Shanghai
1933
Night of Terror
5.5/20
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family ar...
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Night of Terror
1932
Are You Listening?
5/4
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsor...
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Are You Listening?
1934
Money Means Nothing
4/2
At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling B...
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Money Means Nothing
1948
Embraceable You
5.5/2
Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie, the woman he accidentally hit with his car during a crime. He is broke and hits up his very d...
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Embraceable You
1933
Headline Shooter
5.8/4
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Headline Shooter
1935
The Nut Farm
8/1
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is...
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The Nut Farm
1937
O.H.M.S.
3.5/2
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie i...
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O.H.M.S.
1936
Two in the Dark
5.9/7
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) conne...
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Two in the Dark
1956
Stagecoach To Fury
5/4
A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
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Stagecoach To Fury
1944
Machine Gun Mama
3.8/5
Two Americans stranded in Mexico with an elephant try to sell their animal to a traveling carnival. Low-budget comedy with songs and a misleading titl...
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Machine Gun Mama
1936
Absolute Quiet
5.5/9
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...
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Absolute Quiet
1932
Central Park
5.2/6
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 i...
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Central Park
1954
The Boy from Oklahoma
5.2/8
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
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The Boy from Oklahoma
1953
The Nebraskan
3/2
War looms on the horizon when an Army officer's American Indian aide is accused of murdering a tribal elder.
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The Nebraskan
1942
Inside the Law
5/2
A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.
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Inside the Law
1935
Get That Man
3.7/3
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
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Get That Man
1941
Murder by Invitation
5.6/9
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard...
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Murder by Invitation
1953
The Great Jesse James Raid
4.7/3
The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
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The Great Jesse James Raid
1933
Goodbye Again
5/7
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband. Will the author's savvy secretary, who's s...
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Goodbye Again
1946
Lover Come Back
6.2/3
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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Lover Come Back
1934
A Woman's Man
4/1
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.
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A Woman's Man
1940
Isle Of Destiny
5/6
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Isle Of Destiny
1938
Swing It, Sailor!
5/1
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
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Swing It, Sailor!
1950
Dakota Lil
5/4
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
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Dakota Lil
1934
I Hate Women
0/0
A reporter is frustrated with women after a string of failed relationships. But then he finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes...
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I Hate Women
1935
Another Face
4.2/4
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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Another Face
1935
She Couldn't Take It
4.5/2
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent...
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She Couldn't Take It
1933
East of Fifth Avenue
6/2
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unf...
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East of Fifth Avenue
1940
Give Us Wings
6/2
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Give Us Wings
1947
Magic Town
6.7/29
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country....
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Magic Town
1956
The Rainmaker
6.7/45
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's...
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The Rainmaker
1940
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
0/0
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love...
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1952
Rodeo
0/0
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into...
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Rodeo
1940
Scatterbrain
0/0
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
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Scatterbrain
1933
My Woman
3.4/5
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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My Woman
1932
Skyscraper Souls
5.6/11
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despit...
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Skyscraper Souls
1932
Hypnotized
0/0
A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.
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Hypnotized
1937
Jericho
5.8/5
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
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Jericho
1950
Harvey
7.676/625
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileg...
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Harvey
1948
Belle Starr's Daughter
4.4/9
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
1949
Red Stallion In The Rockies
0/0
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
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Red Stallion In The Rockies
1940
Two Girls on Broadway
6.8/4
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...
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Two Girls on Broadway
1936
A Son Comes Home
1/1
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
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A Son Comes Home
1946
Rendezvous with Annie
6/1
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two...
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Rendezvous with Annie
1960
Tess of the Storm Country
0/0
Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroil...
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Tess of the Storm Country
1938
The Marines Come Thru
0/0
Marine Lieutenant Steve Landers has perfected a new bomb-release for airplanes which he is testing with the aid of his mechanics,'Singapore' Stebbins...
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The Marines Come Thru
1945
The Great John L.
5/2
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champ...
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The Great John L.
1933
The Big Cage
6/1
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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The Big Cage
1951
Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
4.5/2
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
1946
A Guy Could Change
0/0
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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A Guy Could Change
1955
Lucy Gallant
7/6
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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Lucy Gallant
1945
Blood on the Sun
5.9/35
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japa...
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Blood on the Sun
1955
The Spoilers
4.8/6
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
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The Spoilers
1941
Roar of the Press
5.6/5
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Roar of the Press
1956
The Maverick Queen
5.292/12
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which,...
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The Maverick Queen
1929
Married in Hollywood
0/0
Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe. When he makes know...
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Married in Hollywood
1958
Twilight for the Gods
4.2/4
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
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Twilight for the Gods
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
5/2
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
1958
The Matchmaker
6.9/13
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
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The Matchmaker
1945
On Stage Everybody
0/0
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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On Stage Everybody
1938
Stardust
4/3
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter...
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Stardust
2008
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.4/14
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6/1
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1964
Bristle Face
0/0
In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to town with his hound dog and tries to teach him to hunt. B...
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Bristle Face
1932
Freaks
7.8/1202
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for...
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Freaks
1935
In Spite of Danger
1/1
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupatio...
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In Spite of Danger
1934
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
6/1
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
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