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76
7.3
/21367/
73
/705/
71
/338/
3.6
/26211/
90
/29/
85
/569/
69
/11/
cc age 7+

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
poster
74
58
7.5
/3938/
78
/76/
70
/45/
3.5
/1415/
81
/55/

The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
poster
Disney Plus
58
54
6.4
/5988/
66
/175/
61
/94/
3.0
/4882/
68
/19/
48
/139/
45
/6/
cc age 6+

The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....
poster
64
53
6.7
/4482/
67
/123/
65
/55/
3.2
/2391/
62
/48/

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
poster
The Roku Channel
55
46
6.0
/4280/
62
/91/
57
/63/
2.9
/1542/
60
/5/
38
/56/
cc age 7+

Africa Screams (1949)
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
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69
45
6.8
/2309/
70
/54/
63
/28/
3.3
/586/
80
/4/
67
/366/

Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
poster
64
31
6.9
/1114/
55
/19/
61
/25/
3.2
/477/
69
/1435/
cc age 6+

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
29
6.6
/1281/
69
/40/
68
/22/
3.3
/364/
59
/946/

The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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67
25
6.7
/694/
70
/16/
59
/7/
73
/279/

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
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63
20
6.7
/1343/
70
/43/
61
/18/
3.3
/469/
52
/9/

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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60
19
6.2
/1404/
63
/33/
56
/13/
3.2
/506/
57
/14/

Mexican Hayride (1948)
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
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MGM Plus
55
16
5.6
/1118/
63
/22/
46
/23/
3.0
/348/
50
/11/

Born to the West (1937)
Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.
poster
58
15
5.8
/754/
61
/8/
54
/16/
3.1
/575/

Island of Doomed Men (1940)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Amazon Prime Video
54
14
5.6
/971/
63
/21/
51
/15/
3.1
/254/
41
/14/

Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
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58
11
6.7
/506/
77
/8/
70
/5/
21
/216/

Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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59
9
6.2
/396/
65
/4/
48
/13/
3.2
/235/

Smooth as Silk (1946)
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
poster
?
4.8
/8/

Meet the O'Briens (1954)
An unsold pilot about a clumsy, unemployed dopey guy with a wife living with his in-laws.
poster
?
6.4
/37/

Men in Her Diary (1945)
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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?
5.4
/12/
10
/1/

Let's Have Fun (1943)
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
poster
?
6.7
/23/
60
/1/

Sing for Your Supper (1941)
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
poster
?
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
/76/
10
/1/

Harmon of Michigan (1941)
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
poster
?
6.6
/25/

Lucky Legs (1942)
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
6.5
/95/
60
/1/

Thunder Trail (1937)
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
poster
?
5.6
/27/

The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
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?
6.1
/72/
60
/3/
58
/3/

The Big Boss (1941)
Two brothers are separated after the death of their father. One grows up to be a politician, while the other gets involved in corruption.
poster
?
6.9
/42/
60
/2/

The Phantom Submarine (1940)
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
poster
?
6.3
/96/
60
/2/

Free For All (1949)
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
poster
?
5.8
/51/
40
/1/
35
/2/

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942)
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
poster
?
5.9
/74/

And Sudden Death (1936)
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
poster
?
6.9
/46/

Hey, Rookie (1944)
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
poster
?
4.7
/95/
42
/4/
50
/1/

Swingin' Along (1961)
An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.
poster
?
7.2
/34/
30
/1/

Timothy's Quest (1936)
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
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?
5.8
/70/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Louisiana Hayride (1944)
A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
poster
?
5.3
/80/
50
/2/

Forlorn River (1937)
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
poster
63
?
5.4
/173/
76
/3/
57
/3/

Out West with the Peppers (1940)
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
poster
68
?
5.9
/173/
77
/4/
67
/3/

Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
poster
69
?
6.1
/175/
83
/3/
63
/3/

Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
poster
72
?
6.6
/273/
90
/2/
62
/4/

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew (1939)
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
poster
?
5.7
/65/

Nobody's Children (1940)
A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
poster
?
6.4
/40/
40
/1/

Behind Prison Gates (1939)
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
poster
?
6.3
/28/
30
/2/

Nevada (1935)
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
poster
?
3.2
/56/
65
/2/

The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.
poster
?
5.8
/29/
50
/1/
50
/1/

Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
poster
?
5.6
/27/

Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
poster
?
6.3
/94/
70
/1/

Beautiful But Broke (1944)
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
poster
52
?
6.2
/121/
42
/2/

Honolulu Lu (1941)
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
poster
56
?
6.4
/125/
50
/1/

Car 99 (1935)
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.


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