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61
6.9
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64
/89/
62
/95/
3.5
/4218/
86
/58/
64
/48/

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
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66
56
6.3
/3266/
63
/83/
60
/56/
3.1
/2871/
100
/6/
51
/46/

Black Friday (1940)
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Criterion Channel
73
38
6.9
/886/
65
/32/
60
/22/
3.6
/3704/
91
/11/
83
/2/

Shoes (1916)
A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.
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61
33
6.5
/1494/
64
/17/
64
/19/
3.3
/1536/
48
/46/

Hot Saturday (1932)
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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Amazon Prime Video
41
30
4.7
/2241/
50
/50/
48
/40/
2.4
/1800/
43
/7/
14
/44/

The Ape (1940)
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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YouTube TV
61
29
5.9
/1228/
61
/13/
57
/11/
3.3
/836/
80
/5/
46
/14/

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.
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MGM Plus
58
28
6.3
/1690/
68
/31/
51
/33/
3.2
/383/
47
/1529/

In Old California (1942)
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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63
24
6.9
/1115/
70
/10/
64
/14/
3.3
/1587/
48
/9/

Virtue (1932)
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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65
23
6.4
/376/
65
/2/
53
/3/
80
/127/

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 hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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56
22
6.0
/715/
62
/9/
46
/12/
58
/55/

Zenobia (1939)
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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67
17
6.8
/1360/
68
/19/
57
/9/
3.4
/306/
78
/12/

Young Tom Edison (1940)
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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56
15
6.4
/574/
61
/7/
61
/6/
40
/142/

Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
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65
15
6.6
/921/
64
/15/
67
/12/
3.3
/343/

Two of a Kind (1951)
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
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59
13
6.8
/900/
66
/8/
66
/11/
3.3
/537/
33
/1/

Nazi Agent (1942)
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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57
13
5.9
/500/
50
/18/
58
/15/
3.0
/447/

Behind the Mask (1932)
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
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?
5.6
/21/

Brothers (1930)
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character. Eddie is a pianist in a speak-easy but a man of high character. Bob commits a murder and Eddie is blamed and faces life in prison.
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?
6.2
/50/

What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.
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6.8
/33/
70
/2/
90
/1/

Fury (1923)
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his effeminacy and more often beaten. While in port Boy proposes to Minnie and suggests that she go to Glasgow to meet him there to be married. The ship sails and the Captain learns of his son's intention to marry. He calls him in and tells him about his mother, who deserted him, and tries to turn him away from all women, but Boy refuses to listen. The Captain is suddenly taken ill, but before he dies he makes Boy promise that he will not marry until he has found the man who wronged his mother. The Captain is buried at sea and the ship continues on its course. Upon reaching Glasgow Boy tells Minnie what happened. While at the bar, he meets an old woman who comes in begging. During the conversation he discovers that she is his mother, and he forces her to tell him who her betrayer was. A lost film.
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5.3
/40/
30
/2/

G.I. Dood It (1955)
Joe Besser has a fight with an army sergeant before he is drafted, and when he arrives at camp, finds the sergeant is his NCO and not adverse to taking revenge. When some documents are missing, the commanding officer offers a promotion to anyone who finds the. Joe and the sergeant get into a fight in the kitchen, and Joe discovers the paper. He is promoted to sergeant and the sergeant is busted to a private.
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?
6.1
/87/
20
/1/
20
/1/

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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?
4.8
/12/

Playing with Souls (1925)
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents, and is taunted by his schoolmates, who doubt the legitimacy of his childhood. By the time he is 20, Matt wants to find out about his parentage, so he travels to Paris, leaving behind his sweetheart, Margo.
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?
5.7
/72/
50
/1/
50
/1/

Strictly Personal (1933)
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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5.8
/43/
20
/1/

Police Car 17 (1933)
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
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5.5
/61/
50
/1/
47
/3/

Air Hostess (1949)
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
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Amazon Prime Video
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5.5
/59/
40
/2/
55
/3/

Cheers of the Crowd (1935)
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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61
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6.5
/346/
60
/2/
60
/5/

Within the Law (1939)
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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53
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5.3
/218/
63
/3/
44
/7/

Haunted House (1940)
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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62
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6.2
/494/
61
/7/
65
/5/

Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
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49
?
5.8
/172/
42
/5/

A Likely Story (1947)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
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Amazon Prime Video
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5.6
/86/
50
/1/
60
/2/

Honeymoon Limited (1935)
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
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5.7
/36/
60
/1/

The Dark Mirror (1920)
New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.
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55
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6.5
/282/
65
/2/
40
/5/

Little Old New York (1940)
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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8.0
/13/
85
/4/

Romance in the Rain (1934)
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
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61
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6.3
/247/
60
/3/
62
/5/

Mr. District Attorney (1941)
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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60
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6.5
/310/
45
/2/
56
/5/

Kiss and Tell (1945)
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
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45
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6.1
/140/
60
/1/
30
/1/

Stranger in Town (1931)
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
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YouTube TV
64
?
6.6
/384/
58
/5/
72
/2/

The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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41
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5.6
/138/
45
/4/
26
/5/

The Hard Hombre (1931)
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
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63
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6.1
/252/
61
/5/
64
/8/

The Beloved Brat (1938)
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
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50
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6.0
/434/
53
/9/
72
/4/
17
/3/

Excuse My Dust (1951)
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl friend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girl-friend thinks he has quit with her. But on a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girl friend is able to help him.
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?
5.8
/43/
30
/3/

Dizzy Yardbird (1950)
Joe is in the army, and his sergeant is determined to make a soldier out of Joe if he has to kill him to do it.
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63
?
5.9
/200/
60
/2/
72
/4/

Vagabond Lady (1935)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
poster
?
6.6
/96/
60
/2/
48
/5/

Madame Racketeer (1932)
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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64
?
6.1
/340/
70
/4/
61
/10/

Gallant Journey (1946)
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
poster
61
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6.1
/341/
60
/5/
62
/5/

The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
poster
54
?
5.7
/174/
46
/3/
60
/3/

Bannerline (1951)
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
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55
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6.0
/384/
60
/1/
48
/8/

Young Widow (1946)
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
poster
59
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5.7
/238/
70
/1/
52
/4/

Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.


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