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7.3
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74
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69
/39/
3.5
/1926/
75
/8/
78
/48/
67
/9/

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
poster
72
55
7.0
/7181/
66
/118/
64
/90/
3.3
/5359/
93
/14/
75
/8/

Kiss Me Kate (1953)
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
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MGM Plus
50
43
5.4
/3764/
54
/97/
52
/84/
2.7
/4267/
60
/10/
32
/79/

The Devil Bat (1940)
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
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MGM Plus
45
42
3.8
/9786/
47
/242/
43
/125/
2.1
/11537/
39
/28/
37
/678/
70
/4/

Tell Your Children (1938)
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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58
30
6.5
/1063/
56
/14/
55
/11/
3.1
/1539/
78
/9/
36
/13/

Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
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54
29
6.3
/1421/
59
/24/
56
/25/
3.4
/1558/
40
/5/
38
/10/

Madam Satan (1930)
A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
25
5.3
/2000/
47
/23/
49
/26/
2.6
/840/
36
/1387/

Spooks Run Wild (1941)
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
22
5.9
/732/
55
/7/
63
/10/
56
/59/

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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MGM Plus
45
22
5.3
/1424/
50
/26/
49
/32/
2.8
/802/
17
/1844/

Bowery at Midnight (1942)
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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68
20
7.2
/626/
67
/17/
65
/24/
3.5
/619/

T.V. of Tomorrow (1953)
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.
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55
19
5.9
/256/
48
/5/
53
/8/
62
/62/

College Humor (1933)
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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51
19
5.3
/743/
52
/21/
55
/21/
3.0
/233/
38
/452/

New Frontier (1939)
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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fuboTV
60
16
6.5
/776/
53
/6/
70
/1/
3.2
/350/
50
/58/

She Married Her Boss (1935)
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
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49
15
5.8
/472/
50
/19/
56
/10/
33
/75/

Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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58
15
6.5
/789/
60
/2/
58
/20/
3.1
/413/
46
/7/

Wonder Bar (1934)
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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65
10
6.5
/379/
66
/8/
64
/4/
67
/13/

The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
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JustWatchTV
61
9
5.9
/556/
68
/8/
57
/10/
3.1
/230/

Murder by Invitation (1941)
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 feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Amazon Prime Video
42
6
5.3
/458/
44
/11/
45
/11/
3.0
/200/
12
/4/

The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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56
4
6.4
/224/
70
/3/
70
/1/
20
/15/

Doubting Thomas (1935)
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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6.1
/63/
60
/1/

Just Suppose (1948)
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
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?
5.8
/70/
60
/1/

Calling All Pa's (1942)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
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49
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5.8
/119/
30
/2/
60
/1/

Cash Stashers (1953)
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.
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?
5.1
/22/

Carry Harry (1942)
After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake.
poster
?
5.9
/36/

Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11 (1946)
A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and size measuring terms and protocols, race track gambling lingo, harness racing lingo and training techniques, Lipizzan stallions, and non-horse terminology using horse words. In-between the questions, other horse facts are presented and shown, including hapless novice equestrian Horace trying to saddle, mount and ride a horse.
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?
5.3
/37/
10
/1/

Out for Fun (1954)
A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.
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?
6.0
/80/
10
/1/

I Love Children, But! (1952)
A Pete Smith specialty.
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?
6.2
/14/

Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto (1941)
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
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5.7
/47/
60
/1/

The Rangers Take Over (1942)
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
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?
6.2
/87/

The Girl on the Front Page (1936)
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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57
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6.8
/256/
48
/4/

Pick-up (1933)
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
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?
6.3
/94/

Seventh Column (1943)
This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
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?
5.0
/68/
10
/1/
20
/1/

Reducing (1952)
Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and-sweets temptations.
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6.2
/67/
40
/2/

The Man Around the House (1955)
A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.
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?
6.4
/102/

I Love My Husband, But! (1946)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
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64
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6.0
/117/
70
/3/

Have You Ever Wondered? (1947)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.
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?
6.1
/75/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Fall Guy (1955)
In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and upon whom objects fell) when he played hapless characters throughout the series. Under the pseudonym "David Barclay", O'Brien also directed many of the Specialties. Clips from previous films highlight O'Brien's work.
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?
6.4
/83/
25
/2/
60
/1/

Do Someone a Favor! (1954)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.
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52
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5.7
/109/
40
/3/
60
/2/

Did'ja Know? (1950)
This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do indoor radiators make that pounding noise? Why do mammals yawn?
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Amazon Prime Video
48
?
4.8
/237/
52
/4/
46
/5/

Buried Alive (1939)
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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60
?
6.1
/111/
60
/1/

Victory Quiz (1942)
A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
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?
6.8
/17/
50
/1/
60
/1/

The Deadly Game (1941)
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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6.0
/56/
10
/1/
60
/1/

A Wife's Life (1950)
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
?
6.1
/138/
100
/2/
55
/4/

Son of the Navy (1940)
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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?
5.7
/35/

Gun Packer (1938)
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
poster
57
?
5.7
/142/
35
/2/
80
/1/

Things We Can Do Without (1953)
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.
poster
?
5.8
/87/
60
/2/
73
/3/

I Love My Mother-In-Law But... (1948)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
poster
67
?
5.8
/125/
75
/2/
75
/2/

I Love My Wife BUT! (1947)
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
poster
?
5.9
/55/
60
/2/

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage (2006)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.


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