Leyland Hodgson
Leyland Hodgson (5 October 1892 – 16 March 1949), also known as Leland Hodgson, was an English-born American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in London on 5 October 1892, Hodgson entered the theatre in 1898. In his early 20s Hodgson was part of a touring theatre company, spending his time in the British areas of the Far East, before entering the stage in Australia. In 1930 moved to the United States, where he made his film debut in the Oscar-nominated film, The Case of Sergeant Grischa in 1930.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.073 |
| Birthday | 1892-10-05 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Layland Hodgson, Leland Hodgson, Leland Hogdson, |
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
6.313/16
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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A Woman's Vengeance
1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
5.8/156
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan go...
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
1946
Dressed to Kill
6.5/116
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purc...
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Dressed to Kill
1948
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
6.6/26
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kil...
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
6.6/72
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suff...
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1946
Bedlam
6.5/79
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they wer...
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Bedlam
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
6.5/92
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1944
The Pearl of Death
7.071/85
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to Lon...
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The Pearl of Death
1940
The Invisible Man Returns
6.2/121
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Invisible Man Returns
1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge
5.6/57
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discover...
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
1942
To Be or Not to Be
7.8/747
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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To Be or Not to Be
1938
Mysterious Mr. Moto
5.735/17
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1940
Murder Over New York
6.1/17
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Murder Over New York
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
5.8/26
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1946
Under Nevada Skies
5/1
Rodeo star Roy Rogers returns home to find that his old friend Tom Craig has been murdered after he was accused of stealing a family crest from Helen...
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Under Nevada Skies
1939
The Witness Vanishes
6.7/3
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insan...
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The Witness Vanishes
1941
They Met in Bombay
7.3/17
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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They Met in Bombay
1942
Journey for Margaret
6.6/17
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her ba...
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Journey for Margaret
1943
Assignment in Brittany
6.6/4
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Assignment in Brittany
1943
Two Tickets to London
6/1
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Two Tickets to London
1937
Confession
6.1/14
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's l...
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Confession
1941
The Case of the Black Parrot
5.4/4
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met S...
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The Case of the Black Parrot
1944
Enter Arsène Lupin
6/4
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
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Enter Arsène Lupin
1940
He Married His Wife
5.1/8
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...
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He Married His Wife
1946
The Imperfect Lady
0/0
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Imperfect Lady
1947
Singapore
5.868/19
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...
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Singapore
1942
Escape from Hong Kong
6/1
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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Escape from Hong Kong
1940
Arise, My Love
6.1/17
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Arise, My Love
1945
The Frozen Ghost
6.306/31
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guil...
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The Frozen Ghost
1946
Black Beauty
5.9/5
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her...
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Black Beauty
1931
House of Mystery
8/1
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanati...
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House of Mystery
1943
Sahara
7.2/136
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a...
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Sahara
1939
Susannah of the Mounties
6.3/15
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canad...
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Susannah of the Mounties
1946
Calcutta
6.2/18
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and...
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Calcutta
1933
The Solitaire Man
6.5/5
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen...
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The Solitaire Man
1938
Love Is a Headache
5.7/3
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her kn...
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Love Is a Headache
1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
4/1
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
1936
Beloved Enemy
6.1/8
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is no...
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Beloved Enemy
1937
Call It a Day
5/1
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Call It a Day
1939
They Made Me a Criminal
6.3/30
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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They Made Me a Criminal
1935
One in a Million
5/2
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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One in a Million
1939
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
6.7/18
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a...
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
Love Affair
7/111
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed...
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Love Affair
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
7/37
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Dark Victory
7/143
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love w...
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Dark Victory
1939
Allegheny Uprising
5.6/27
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l...
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Allegheny Uprising
1939
We Are Not Alone
6.1/4
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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We Are Not Alone
1939
Daughters Courageous
6.2/9
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Ji...
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Daughters Courageous
1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
7.125/29
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Arta...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
Second Fiddle
4.5/6
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Second Fiddle
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.588/17
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 tran...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
Raffles
6/17
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in lov...
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Raffles
1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
6.9/149
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes,...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939
The Rains Came
5.9/20
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken art...
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The Rains Came
1939
Eternally Yours
5.647/17
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengt...
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Eternally Yours
1941
The Wolf Man
7/617
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten b...
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The Wolf Man
1932
Under-Cover Man
4.5/2
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...
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Under-Cover Man
1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
6.2/2
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
The Mummy
6.7/626
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads...
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The Mummy
1938
Kidnapped
4.7/3
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Kidnapped
1941
Scotland Yard
0/0
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
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Scotland Yard
1940
The Great Dictator
8.3/3423
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Great Dictator
1936
The Girl from Mandalay
3/1
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their e...
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The Girl from Mandalay
1933
The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6/23
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1940
Rebecca
7.892/1802
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died myste...
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Rebecca
1939
British Intelligence
6/21
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where sh...
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British Intelligence
1931
High Stakes
1/1
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars...
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High Stakes
1940
Buck Benny Rides Again
0/0
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...
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Buck Benny Rides Again
1945
My Name Is Julia Ross
6.7/70
Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothe...
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My Name Is Julia Ross
1933
Peg o' My Heart
5.2/4
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of...
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Peg o' My Heart
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
7.2/49
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...
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All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Lillian Russell
6.1/9
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Lillian Russell
1940
The Sea Hawk
7.2/130
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk
1940
The Howards of Virginia
6.4/10
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
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The Howards of Virginia
1940
The Son of Monte Cristo
6.2/9
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons...
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The Son of Monte Cristo
1940
Captain Caution
5.3/7
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Captain Caution
1940
The Man I Married
6.3/13
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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The Man I Married
1940
Mystery Sea Raider
3/1
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Mystery Sea Raider
1940
I Was an Adventuress
6.3/9
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...
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I Was an Adventuress
1938
Over the Wall
5/1
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Over the Wall
1936
The Girl on the Front Page
0/0
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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The Girl on the Front Page
1938
Swing, Sister, Swing
0/0
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last long...
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Swing, Sister, Swing
1932
Ladies of the Jury
6.4/8
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her r...
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Ladies of the Jury
1946
Terror by Night
6.6/126
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging...
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Terror by Night
1941
Singapore Woman
6.8/4
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Singapore Woman
1936
Trouble for Two
6/4
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called Th...
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Trouble for Two
1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
5.1/19
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer...
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
1941
International Lady
6.4/7
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a...
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International Lady
1943
Around the World
5/2
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops d...
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Around the World
1937
The Adventurous Blonde
5.4/11
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...
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The Adventurous Blonde
1938
Romance Road
4/2
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappe...
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Romance Road
1946
Three Strangers
6.4/36
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...
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Three Strangers
1947
Repeat Performance
6.1/34
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout th...
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Repeat Performance
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
6.8/4
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney...
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A Feather in Her Hat
1946
The Secret Heart
6.3/9
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase...
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The Secret Heart
1948
The Challenge
6/1
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
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The Challenge
1945
Hangover Square
6.8/63
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime...
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Hangover Square
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
5.4/4
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
1942
This Above All
6.639/18
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All
1944
Frenchman's Creek
5/15
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet i...
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Frenchman's Creek
1945
Kitty
5.5/12
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci...
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Kitty
1930
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
6.5/2
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print...
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1943
The Gang's All Here
5.8/35
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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The Gang's All Here
1945
Strange Confession
6.8/22
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in th...
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Strange Confession
1937
Parnell
4.6/7
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
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Parnell
1932
Red-Headed Woman
6.7/47
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so...
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Red-Headed Woman
1948
The Black Arrow
5.2/9
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is...
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