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Favourite Movies
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A growing list of the movies i like.


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Movie: They Made Me a Criminal ( 1939 )
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
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Movie: Mr. Moto's Last Warning ( 1939 )
Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
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Movie: The Great Man Votes ( 1939 )
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Movie: Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 )
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
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Movie: Murder Will Out ( 1939 )
Loder and Baxter immersed in intrigue after receiving costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who gave them the jade in the first place.
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Movie: Tom Sawyer, Detective ( 1938 )
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn help an Arkansas preacher falsely accused of murder.
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Movie: Reefer Madness ( 1938 )
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
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Movie: Blondie ( 1938 )
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family. Camping on the porch of the Poor House would become the most-used prevalent plot line in the 27 series-films that followed. It was also an issue in the comic-strip for about a year after its inception when it was basically a continuity strip but, aside from Dagwood's inability to coax a pay-raise from Mr. Dithers over the years, the financial status of the family was seldom an issue when the format switched to a gag-a-day strip.
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Movie: Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 )
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
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Movie: Out West with the Hardys ( 1938 )
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Movie: Nancy Drew: Detective ( 1938 )
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Movie: Just Around the Corner ( 1938 )
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with bill "Bojangles" robinson. Based on paul gerard smith's book, "Lucky penny".
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Movie: The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 )
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
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Movie: Mr. Wong, Detective ( 1938 )
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers a international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by the first victim's company.
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Movie: Room Service ( 1938 )
The Marx Brothers try and put on a play before their landlord finds out that they have run out of money. To confuse the landlord they pretend that the play's author has contracted some terrible disease and can't be moved. Originally a stage play, the setting shows its origins, but this is vintage Marx Brothers.
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Movie: Hold That Co-ed ( 1938 )
While running for governor a politician aids a needy college by plotting to assure victory for their football team. Though to be a parody of Huey Long and his machine.
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Movie: Boys Town ( 1938 )
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
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Movie: I Am the Law ( 1938 )
Law professor John Lindsay is asked by a civic leader to become a special prosecutor to go after the racketeers in town.
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Movie: Block-Heads ( 1938 )
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
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Movie: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ( 1938 )
A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
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Movie: Love Finds Andy Hardy ( 1938 )
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
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Movie: Lord Jeff ( 1938 )
Spoilt child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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Movie: Gambling with Souls ( 1938 )
Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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Movie: Hollywood Handicap ( 1938 )
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. (The group is played by the "Original Sing Band," which uses their mouths to sound like musical instruments.) They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
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Movie: Kidnapped ( 1938 )
In 1747, young David Balfour's life is threatened by his greedy uncle Ebenezer who wishes to become heir to the considerable Balfour estate.
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Movie: Tarzan and the Green Goddess ( 1938 )
At his English manor, Lord Greystoke - aka Tarzan - recounts his recent adventures in Guatemala. He had been there assisting Major Martling and Ula Vale in their quest for the Green Goddess, a totem worshipped by a primitive jungle tribe inside of which was hidden a formula for a super-explosive. They had successfully wrestled this totem from the natives and were heading back to Livingston when they were attacked by...
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Movie: The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 )
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
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Movie: Sex Madness ( 1938 )
Philanthropist Paul Lorenz is one of the more public faces in the fight against behavior that spreads the many "social diseases", such as syphilis and gonorrhea. An example of such behavior is performing in or attending burlesque shows, which promote casual sex. Indeed, many in the audience at one burlesque show in New York have only sex on their minds, including young unmarried couple...
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Movie: International Crime ( 1938 )
Lamont Cranston an amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston. He complains to his managing editor over the problems that have developed in his department since...
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Movie: Judge Hardy's Children ( 1938 )
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
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Movie: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars ( 1938 )
Flash, Dale, and Dr. Zarkov return from their former space adventures only to find that their enemy, Ming the Merciless of planet Mongo, has a new weapon: a deadly ray that crosses space to wreak havoc on earth. Earth's only hope is for our heroes to take off again and stop the ray at its source on Mars, where they (and a stowaway) must battle Ming's ally, Queen Azura, who turns her enemies into lumpish clay people. Can they survive 15 chapters of deadly perils? Find out next week...
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Movie: A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 )
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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Movie: Child Bride ( 1938 )
12-year-old Jennie lives with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher Miss Carol, a mountain girl herself, went off to get educated and has returned hoping to stop the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who warn her to call off her crusade. One of those threatening men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on young Jennie and plots to make her his bride.
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Movie: Keep Fit ( 1938 )
A weak, cowardly barber (George Formby)gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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Movie: Assassin of Youth ( 1938 )
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
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Movie: Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 )
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
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Movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1938 )
Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household.
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Movie: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo ( 1938 )
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.
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Movie: Oh, Mr. Porter! ( 1938 )
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
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Movie: Old Bones of the River ( 1938 )
In this British comedy, a professor travels up river in Africa to open schools. But his new pupils are not receptive and when the commander of the local base succumbs to malaria, he takes on his duties too. Aided by the crew of the boat he arrived on he starts collecting taxes from the locals!
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Movie: Convict 99 ( 1938 )
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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Movie: You're Only Young Once ( 1937 )
On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him.
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Movie: Thoroughbreds Don't Cry ( 1937 )
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. When a young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race, the plot breaks into a speeding gallop. Donovan is disqualified from racing, but Cricket springs into action and heads into the home stretch riding high!
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Movie: High Flyers ( 1937 )
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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Movie: The Shadow Strikes ( 1937 )
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
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Movie: Murder at the Baskervilles ( 1937 )
Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Movie: Charlie Chan on Broadway ( 1937 )
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.
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Movie: Dead End ( 1937 )
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Their antics, some funny, some vicious, alternate with subplots: unemployed architect Dave is torn between Drina, sweet but equally poor, and Kay, a rich man's mistress; gangster Baby Face Martin returns to his old neighborhood and finds that nobody is glad to see him. Then violent crime, both juvenile and adult, impacts the neighborhood and its people.
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Movie: Gangway ( 1937 )
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Movie: San Quentin ( 1937 )
An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.
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Movie: King Solomon's Mines ( 1937 )
Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert in hopes of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. Worried about her father, Kathy persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him. After surviving the desert they are found by natives and brought to their chief, Twala. Umbopa reveals himself to be the true heir to the tribal throne, having been exiled years earlier by Twala and the tribal witch, Gagool. Quartermain's only hope to gain access to the mines and the possible rescue of O'Brien is to try to help Umbopa regain his rightful place as chief.
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Movie: Feather Your Nest ( 1937 )
An employee of a record manufacturing company comes up with a hit song.
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Movie: On Again-Off Again ( 1937 )
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company.
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Movie: Hoosier Schoolboy ( 1937 )
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
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Movie: A Day at the Races ( 1937 )
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with her boyfriend's horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high-priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in veterinary medicine.
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Movie: Night Key ( 1937 )
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Movie: Thunder in the City ( 1937 )
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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Movie: Way Out West ( 1937 )
Stanley and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a goldmine in a small village, only for it to be stolen.
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Movie: Secret Agent X-9 ( 1937 )
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
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Movie: Good Morning, Boys ( 1937 )
A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.
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Movie: Keep Your Seats, Please! ( 1937 )
A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
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Movie: A Family Affair ( 1937 )
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and his son, Andy discovers Polly Benedict. As usual, Judge Hardy is concerned with everyone in the family and lends wisdom and calmness to all.
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Movie: Black Legion ( 1937 )
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Movie: Bulldog Drummond Escapes ( 1937 )
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intends to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
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Movie: Sabotage ( 1937 )
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
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Movie: Charlie Chan at the Opera ( 1937 )
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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Movie: Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage ( 1937 )
Film of the famous airship explosion.
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Movie: I, Claudius ( 1937 )
The life and times of the Roman Emperor Claudius (10 B.C. to 54 A.D.).
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Movie: Crack-Up ( 1936 )
Colonel Gimpy heads a spy organization trying to get the plans for a new airplane. Test pilot Ace Martin agrees to help.
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Movie: Great Guy ( 1936 )
It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in the hospital. The new man, pugnacious Johnny Cave, steps on the toes of influential merchants and gets increasing pressure, both political and strong-arm, to desist. Will the luck (if not the pluck) of the Irish pull him through?
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Movie: Country Gentlemen ( 1936 )
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride.
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Movie: The Case of the Black Cat ( 1936 )
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around.
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Movie: The House of Secrets ( 1936 )
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
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Movie: Shadow of Chinatown ( 1936 )
A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.
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Movie: Mummy's Boys ( 1936 )
Two ditch diggers from New York join an archeological expedition to Egypt in hopes of striking it rich, unaware of the supposed curse.
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Movie: The Devil Is a Sissy ( 1936 )
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Movie: Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn ( 1936 )
In 1820's rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage by a villainous Squire, and when she becomes pregnant, and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
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Movie: Where There's a Will ( 1936 )
An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.
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Movie: Charlie Chan at the Race Track ( 1936 )
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
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Movie: Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1936 )
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
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Movie: The Devil-Doll ( 1936 )
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
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Movie: Bullets or Ballots ( 1936 )
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Buggs" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent.
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Movie: Fury ( 1936 )
When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
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Movie: Dracula's Daughter ( 1936 )
Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, hoping to free herself of a mysterious evil influence.
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Movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 )
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
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Movie: Flash Gordon ( 1936 )
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
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Movie: Big Brown Eyes ( 1936 )
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Movie: No Limit ( 1936 )
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
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Movie: The Walking Dead ( 1936 )
After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
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Movie: Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 )
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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Movie: The Dark Hour ( 1936 )
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
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Movie: The Bohemian Girl ( 1936 )
A band of Gypsies are camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Not knowing her true identity, Oliver, with the help of "Uncle" Stanley, raises the girl as his own. Years later, Arline, still unaware of her noble birth, is caught trespassing on the Count's grounds and is thrown into the dungeon. Meanwhile, Stanley and Oliver pass the time playing "fingers" and bumblingly ply their trade picking pockets. Finally, just when Oliver needs his help to rescue Arline, Stanley gets drunk while siphoning wine into bottles.
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Movie: The Petrified Forest ( 1936 )
Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can't stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Along comes Alan, a broke man with no will to live, who is traveling to see the pacific, and maybe to drown in it. Meanwhile Duke Mantee a notorious killer and his gang is heading towards the diner where Mantee plan on meeting up with his girl.
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Movie: Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1936 )
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.
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Movie: Crime and Punishment ( 1936 )
Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Movie: Marihuana ( 1936 )
A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
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Movie: Windbag the Sailor ( 1936 )
A bragging sea captain's maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is coerced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked.
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Movie: A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 )
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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Movie: Three Little Beers ( 1935 )
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
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Movie: A Night at the Opera ( 1935 )
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.