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8.2
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80
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83
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cc age 13+

The Sting (1973)
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
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Amazon Prime Video
86
7.9
/104291/
76
/1965/
77
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4.0
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96
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92
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91
/15/

The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Amazon Prime Video
83
7.4
/26907/
77
/739/
72
/411/
4.0
/59452/
95
/55/
85
/859/
88
/16/
cc age 10+

Funny Girl (1968)
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
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72
7.8
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72
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73
/125/
3.8
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86
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87
/124/

Libeled Lady (1936)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Hoopla
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47
7.1
/1646/
59
/52/
62
/29/
3.2
/808/
100
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76
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Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
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47
6.5
/4838/
65
/98/
61
/91/
3.1
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33
/6/
66
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The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
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71
43
6.9
/1446/
64
/23/
75
/18/
3.7
/1917/
72
/212/

Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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fuboTV
73
40
7.0
/1602/
70
/26/
67
/21/
3.4
/596/
86
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76
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cc age 6+

Captain January (1936)
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
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Amazon Prime Video
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39
4.2
/8080/
45
/124/
43
/125/
2.5
/6044/
55
/11/
28
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Bride of the Monster (1955)
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.
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34
6.7
/1919/
75
/22/
64
/26/
3.3
/665/
58
/395/

The Last Gangster (1937)
A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.
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33
6.1
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70
/51/
59
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3.2
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49
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Great Guns (1941)
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
32
5.8
/2204/
57
/65/
56
/35/
2.8
/1252/
24
/43/

The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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29
7.2
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57
/14/
64
/16/
3.5
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33
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71
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Dear Heart (1965)
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
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27
7.2
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68
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3.3
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The Lottery (1969)
Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.
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YouTube TV
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6.4
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65
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63
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3.2
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38
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Dressed to Kill (1941)
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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24
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57
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3.4
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There's Always a Woman (1938)
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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Amazon Prime Video
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22
5.0
/1710/
46
/23/
42
/34/
2.7
/634/
28
/145/

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Amazon Prime Video
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21
6.1
/586/
64
/10/
58
/4/
67
/54/

Clancy Street Boys (1943)
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
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20
6.6
/1222/
68
/22/
65
/11/
3.4
/877/
57
/9/

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes and glamour she can never hope to have. Enter May Worthington and Warren, a pair of con artists who pose as the mother and uncle of a pretty girl in order to separate millionaires from their money. They convince Susan she has an opportunity to fulfill all her dreams, and the trio heads for Palm Beach. Susan meets John Wheeler who says he is shopping for a sailboat. Believing that he is a millionaire, Warren and May sell him a boat that doesn't belong to them, and make off with his $15,000 life savings. Looking for greener pastures, they work themselves into the family of wealthy Tod Fenwick, who falls for Sue, posing as "Linda Worthington". But John shows up as a guest of Fenwick and he tells "Linda", not knowing she was part of the scam, that he has a detective after the fake captain that sold him the boat...
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6.8
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62
/16/
3.3
/614/
52
/9/

Never Say Goodbye (1946)
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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20
5.8
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65
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/32/
3.1
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/2/

Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
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18
6.5
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56
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And One Was Beautiful (1940)
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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15
6.4
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61
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40
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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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13
6.8
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68
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71
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Rhythm on the River (1940)
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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Amazon Prime Video
49
10
6.1
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56
/12/
56
/10/
25
/12/

The Over the Hill Gang (1969)
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
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9
4.8
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41
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2.9
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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The Roku Channel
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8
5.6
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51
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44
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Aerial Gunner (1943)
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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6.4
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20
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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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8.3
/21/

The Secret Sharer (1973)
A sea captain harbors a mysterious swimmer who comes aboard at night. From the story by Joseph Conrad.
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Hoopla
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7.6
/15/
80
/1/

The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter (2020)
Thirty years of film clips, interviews, outtakes, stills and more pay tribute to the lives and work of the comedy legends known as the Bowery Boys.
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6.2
/35/
65
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That I May Live (1937)
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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59
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6.1
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55
/2/
62
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The Witness Chair (1936)
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
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6.4
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50
/2/
80
/1/

Home in Wyomin' (1942)
Radio star Gene Autry returns to his home town of Gold Ridge at the request of his old friend Pop Harrison, who wants Gene to straighten out his wayward son, Tex Harrison, whose gambling and drinking threaten to bankrupt the rodeo organization which he heads. News photographer Clementine "Clem" Benson and reporter Hack Hackett are ordered to follow Gene. The group finds quarters at the "Bar Nothing" dude ranch, winter quarters for Tex's rodeo group, and Tex soon tangles with Hackett in a quarrel.
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5.3
/38/

They Live in Fear (1944)
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.
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?
6.9
/94/

Say It in French (1938)
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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58
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6.2
/139/
60
/1/
54
/4/

Stage to Chino (1940)
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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?
6.3
/34/
41
/7/

Cop on the Beat (1975)
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
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5.1
/84/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Computercide (1982)
The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery.
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6.7
/97/

Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945)
Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure and a fair amount of comic relief follow them at every turn.
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58
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5.9
/587/
65
/12/
47
/3/

Spook Busters (1946)
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.
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63
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6.0
/374/
66
/10/
65
/4/

Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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69
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6.3
/287/
75
/2/

Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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6.8
/59/
60
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Scattergood Baines (1941)
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
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5.6
/23/

Tuxedo Junction (1941)
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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4.1
/16/
10
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40
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Mobs, Inc. (1956)
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.
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6.8
/46/
60
/1/

3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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6.5
/55/
60
/1/

Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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7.7
/19/
10
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What Am I Bid? (1967)
Discharged serviceman stops off in Hollywood and gets discovered as a next potential big country music star. Really just an excuse to have several country acts perform on film.


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