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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.4
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71
/523/
69
/428/
3.7
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95
/43/
81
/349/
89
/18/

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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79
76
7.4
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73
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71
/240/
3.7
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89
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83
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92
/11/

Ride the High Country (1962)
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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Criterion Channel
77
74
7.4
/13700/
70
/250/
69
/205/
3.8
/19001/
97
/31/
81
/191/

The Palm Beach Story (1942)
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
73
7.1
/15303/
68
/377/
69
/299/
3.4
/24577/
100
/25/
73
/264/

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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YouTube TV
79
72
7.6
/8179/
73
/140/
69
/88/
3.8
/7160/
100
/18/
82
/121/

The More the Merrier (1943)
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
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Criterion Channel
69
7.7
/546/
63
/6/
56
/12/
3.5
/534/
64
/2/

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
67
7.2
/9493/
70
/165/
70
/140/
3.6
/7718/
83
/12/
77
/88/

Dead End (1937)
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
60
7.4
/3440/
69
/44/
71
/43/
3.5
/2618/
100
/8/
76
/24/

These Three (1936)
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
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76
60
7.4
/2756/
75
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69
/48/
3.9
/3786/
88
/472/

Stars in My Crown (1950)
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
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57
6.9
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68
/82/
63
/55/
3.6
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100
/10/
63
/24/

Wichita (1955)
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 candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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YouTube TV
70
57
7.0
/3806/
70
/85/
66
/77/
3.4
/2376/
83
/6/
64
/25/

Union Pacific (1939)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Amazon Prime Video
71
53
6.8
/2613/
67
/36/
68
/39/
3.4
/1712/
91
/11/
68
/27/

Come and Get It (1936)
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
50
6.7
/2307/
64
/39/
64
/38/
3.4
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92
/13/
50
/25/

Barbary Coast (1935)
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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71
49
7.2
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70
/80/
70
/72/
3.8
/2653/
70
/9/

Colorado Territory (1949)
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
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63
42
6.6
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68
/51/
64
/51/
3.4
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50
/32/

Ramrod (1947)
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
37
6.6
/1033/
62
/15/
55
/21/
3.6
/1413/
80
/45/

Stranger on Horseback (1955)
A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
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59
32
6.4
/1823/
62
/19/
56
/37/
3.2
/651/
47
/1633/

Buffalo Bill (1944)
Scout William F. Cody marries a U.S. senator's daughter, fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
30
6.0
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/28/
48
/27/
3.0
/1247/
50
/16/
50
/12/

Bird of Paradise (1932)
When a young South Seas sailor falls overboard, the beautiful daughter of a Polynesian king dives in and saves his life. Thus begins the romance of Johnny and Luana. Though Luana is promised to another man, Johnny whisks her away, and for a brief time the lovers live very happily together. But, when a local volcano threatens their lives, Luana knows that she must sacrifice herself to the volcanic gods in order to save her island.
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67
29
6.8
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66
/24/
3.3
/1133/
67
/14/

Primrose Path (1940)
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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28
6.4
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/9/
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/18/
3.3
/347/
100
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The Lost Squadron (1932)
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
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63
27
6.9
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65
/20/
62
/18/
3.3
/681/
55
/48/

Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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57
26
6.2
/1143/
59
/13/
56
/21/
3.2
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67
/9/
30
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The Great Moment (1944)
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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63
25
6.7
/1204/
67
/27/
66
/23/
3.3
/1107/
50
/10/

Hollywood Story (1951)
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
24
6.2
/1199/
61
/27/
61
/24/
3.3
/409/
39
/93/

Fort Massacre (1958)
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.
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62
23
6.4
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58
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61
/14/
3.3
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Bed of Roses (1933)
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
23
6.9
/594/
81
/7/
62
/10/
64
/113/

They Shall Have Music (1939)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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60
23
6.5
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62
/14/
62
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3.2
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50
/10/

Gambling Lady (1934)
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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56
23
6.2
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/24/
60
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40
/87/

Cattle Empire (1958)
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.
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60
19
6.4
/1413/
69
/31/
60
/20/
3.2
/364/
46
/10/

The Virginian (1946)
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Amazon Prime Video
55
18
6.4
/785/
60
/15/
57
/12/
40
/35/

Gunsight Ridge (1957)
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
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49
18
6.0
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55
/17/
56
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29
/63/

South of St. Louis (1949)
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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58
18
6.6
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68
/34/
61
/14/
3.3
/237/
33

Cattle Drive (1951)
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.
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56
17
6.0
/954/
56
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46
/22/
3.1
/703/

The Unseen (1945)
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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67
17
7.0
/1183/
71
/18/
56
/21/
3.4
/386/
71
/4/

Four Faces West (1948)
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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57
16
6.3
/1070/
62
/9/
57
/15/
3.2
/569/
40
/8/

The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
16
6.2
/1211/
62
/33/
56
/23/
3.2
/333/
21
/7/

The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
16
6.6
/1208/
63
/26/
68
/17/
3.2
/361/
55
/5/

Trooper Hook (1957)
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
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61
15
6.0
/731/
61
/23/
62
/19/
3.1
/290/

Border River (1954)
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
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MGM Plus
51
15
5.8
/671/
53
/16/
53
/14/
3.1
/314/
29
/55/

The Silver Horde (1930)
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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MGM Plus
48
15
5.9
/742/
48
/9/
52
/24/
3.0
/439/
25
/18/

Kept Husbands (1931)
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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56
15
6.4
/1046/
68
/29/
65
/20/
3.2
/288/
21
/6/

The Tall Stranger (1957)
A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders.
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66
14
6.9
/755/
65
/8/
63
/9/
3.5
/621/

Girls About Town (1931)
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
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61
14
6.6
/926/
65
/18/
63
/11/
3.4
/511/
44
/5/

The Great Man's Lady (1941)
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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54
13
6.7
/582/
60
/1/
65
/11/
20
/227/

One Man's Journey (1933)
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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60
13
6.1
/734/
58
/9/
55
/15/
3.2
/311/

Banjo on My Knee (1936)
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
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70
13
6.4
/626/
64
/12/
57
/11/
100
/7/

Frenchie (1950)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
poster
53
12
6.5
/912/
61
/10/
58
/13/
3.2
/490/
17
/4/

Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.


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