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Amazon Prime Video
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7.8
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75
/374/
4.0
/28207/
96
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91
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
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63
55
6.5
/5697/
68
/97/
62
/73/
3.3
/3151/
70
/10/
51
/57/

The Big Store (1941)
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
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Kanopy
47
29
5.6
/2486/
59
/30/
56
/28/
2.6
/1269/
43
/7/
17
/18/

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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53
19
5.9
/1191/
60
/11/
58
/12/
3.1
/604/
30
/71/

Hollywood Party (1934)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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54
18
6.3
/1345/
65
/32/
54
/15/
3.2
/358/
25
/150/

Lost in a Harem (1944)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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4.1
/21/
45
/1/

The Man on the Box (1925)
A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to steal military secrets, and has to find a way to stop him.
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10
/1/

The Fortune Hunter (1927)
The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith. It was produced by Warner Brothers who released it with a Vitaphone soundtrack.
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5.8
/27/

Oh! What a Nurse! (1926)
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke, and David Torrence. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 7, 1926.
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6.2
/38/
60
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Everybody Dance (1936)
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
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52
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6.3
/370/
40
/4/

Reducing (1931)
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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5.8
/71/
10
/1/
45
/2/

The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
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6.8
/19/

Caught Short (1930)
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealousies but nevertheless are the best of friends. Polly invests in the stock market and begins to reap rewards, but she is unable to persuade Marie to use her life's savings to buy shares of American Cheese or Brazilian Bananas. Meanwhile, Marie's daughter, Genevieve, and Polly's son, William, just back from college, fall in love; but an argument between the ladies breaks up the romance; and smarting under Polly's patronizing manner, Marie plunges into the market herself and with the winnings is able to stage a society splurge at a fashionable resort.
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6.4
/20/
20
/1/

The Missing Link (1927)
Arthur Wells, an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to animals...tame or wild.
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?
5.2
/10/

Sunless Sunday (1921)
A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.
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6.6
/27/

Fools for Luck (1928)
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
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Amazon Prime Video
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5.5
/112/
60
/1/

Winter Carnival (1939)
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
poster
?
6.3
/45/
30
/1/

Murder Goes to College (1937)
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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50
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5.1
/163/
50
/1/
50
/2/

Student Tour (1934)
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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?
5.4
/47/

Harrigan's Kid (1943)
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
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?
5.3
/21/

Brotherly Love (1928)
Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
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5.3
/72/
50
/1/

The Cobra Strikes (1948)
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
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51
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5.6
/313/
51
/6/
48
/4/

Flying High (1931)
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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68
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6.6
/234/
70
/1/

You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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6.7
/18/
60
/1/

Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
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52
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5.8
/110/
50
/1/
50
/2/

It's in the Air (1935)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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44
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5.3
/135/
35
/2/

The Winning Ticket (1935)
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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37
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4.4
/130/
30
/1/

The Chief (1933)
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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59
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5.9
/180/
60
/1/

This Time for Keeps (1942)
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
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57
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5.9
/194/
55
/2/
60
/3/

Divorce In The Family (1932)
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
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7.4
/27/
80
/1/

In This Corner (1948)
A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.
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55
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6.4
/480/
45
/2/
49
/7/
3.2
/214/

The Christmas Party (1931)
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
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56
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6.2
/315/
50
/6/

The Better 'Ole (1926)
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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62
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6.1
/249/
70
/2/
57
/3/

The Show-Off (1934)
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again.
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MGM Plus
57
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5.5
/193/
60
/2/
58
/6/

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
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60
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5.6
/188/
65
/2/

Stepping Out (1931)
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
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49
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5.9
/293/
40
/2/

Chasing Rainbows (1930)
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
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65
?
6.3
/313/
70
/2/
63
/5/

Politics (1931)
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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39
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5.4
/306/
40
/1/
43
/3/
20
/37/

Love in the Rough (1930)
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
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46
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5.7
/503/
60
/1/
50
/4/
20
/9/

Meet the People (1944)
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
poster
?
5.4
/43/

Alex in Wonderland (1940)
In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.
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China Bound (1929)
Two loony buddies get caught up in a Chinese revolution.
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The March of Time (1930)
Unfinished pre-Code era film consisting of three sections with past performers from the stage and the vaudeville circuit, then-present-day performers and up-and-coming performers. Musical excerpts were later used in Broadway to Hollywood (1933), Nertsery Rhymes (1933), and Roast-Beef and Movies (1934). "The Lock Step" was later used in That's Entertainment! III (1994)


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