Paul Porcasi
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Paul Porcasi (1 January 1879 – 8 August 1946) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 142 films between 1917 and 1945. He was born in Palermo, Sicily. Porcasi was memorable as "Nick the Greek" in Universal's Broadway (1929). Porcasi performed infrequently on Broadway from 1916 to 1928. He ended his theatrical career in the smash hit "Broadway" as Nick Verdis that ran from 16 September 1926 to 11 February 1928 (603 performances) at the Broadhurst Theatre. French actress Yola d'Avril portrayed his daughter, Madame Feronde in MGM's adventure film Tarzan and His Mate.
Porcasi died on 8 August 1946 in Hollywood, California.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6832 |
| Birthday | 1879-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
| Also Known As | Paul Porcassi, |
1941
It Started with Eve
7.219/32
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...
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It Started with Eve
1935
Charlie Chan in Egypt
6.864/33
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed in...
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
1933
When Strangers Marry
8/1
In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled rich girl. His romantic rival...
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When Strangers Marry
1937
Café Metropole
7.25/12
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
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Café Metropole
1943
Quiet Please, Murder
7.045/11
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Quiet Please, Murder
1931
The Criminal Code
6.118/34
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year...
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The Criminal Code
1935
The Florentine Dagger
6.75/4
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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The Florentine Dagger
1926
Say It Again
9/1
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped...
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Say It Again
1931
Smart Money
6.81/29
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
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Smart Money
1934
British Agent
5.789/19
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
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British Agent
1940
The Border Legion
5/6
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gan...
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The Border Legion
1937
The Emperor's Candlesticks
4.944/9
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
1930
The Three Sisters
10/1
A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film...
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The Three Sisters
1938
Crime School
6.396/24
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck...
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Crime School
1932
Under Eighteen
6.286/14
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. De...
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Under Eighteen
1933
I Loved a Woman
4.786/14
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l...
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I Loved a Woman
1936
The Leathernecks Have Landed
7/2
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Da...
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
1933
Terror Aboard
6.5/6
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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Terror Aboard
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
6.182/11
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1932
The Kid from Spain
6.6/10
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie get...
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The Kid from Spain
1944
Swing Hostess
6.8/5
An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.
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Swing Hostess
1931
Bought!
8/2
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
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Bought!
1933
Caliente Love
8/1
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Ca...
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Caliente Love
1932
Cynara
5.071/14
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Cynara
1933
Gigolettes of Paris
6/2
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a ric...
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Gigolettes of Paris
1932
A Parisian Romance
4.6/5
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to...
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A Parisian Romance
1936
Down to the Sea
5.333/3
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Down to the Sea
1933
Big Time Or Bust
5.667/3
Newlywed carnival performers decide to try their luck in New York, but their marriage begins to crumble when their careers take separate paths.
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Big Time Or Bust
1931
The Good Bad Girl
6.5/4
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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The Good Bad Girl
1934
La Cucaracha
6.071/14
Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who pe...
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La Cucaracha
1938
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
5.808/13
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an internat...
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1930
Born Reckless
5.767/15
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Born Reckless
1935
I Dream Too Much
5.353/17
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...
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I Dream Too Much
1934
Wake Up and Dream
5.333/3
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Wake Up and Dream
1940
Argentine Nights
8/1
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
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Argentine Nights
1931
Gentleman's Fate
6.143/7
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Gentleman's Fate
1932
Men Are Such Fools
7/1
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...
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Men Are Such Fools
1934
Tarzan and His Mate
6.5/148
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
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Tarzan and His Mate
1931
Svengali
6.19/63
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Svengali
1935
Hi, Gaucho!
8.333/3
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
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Hi, Gaucho!
1932
While Paris Sleeps
6.4/5
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are tw...
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While Paris Sleeps
1931
Doctors' Wives
6/2
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin w...
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Doctors' Wives
1940
I Was an Adventuress
6.55/10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...
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I Was an Adventuress
1933
Havana Widows
6.6/5
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Havana Widows
1943
Casablanca
8.141/6016
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1937
Madame X
6.111/9
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i...
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Madame X
1938
I'll Give a Million
6.143/7
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k...
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I'll Give a Million
1933
The Devil's in Love
6/5
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andre Morand is wrongfully convicted of a murder, he e...
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The Devil's in Love
1935
Broadway Gondolier
6/6
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Broadway Gondolier
1935
Baby Face Harrington
5.333/6
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....
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Baby Face Harrington
1934
His Greatest Gamble
5.75/4
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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His Greatest Gamble
1935
Stars Over Broadway
5.6/5
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Stars Over Broadway
1934
The Gay Divorcee
6.919/143
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom s...
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The Gay Divorcee
1939
Juarez
6.52/25
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Juarez
1939
Lady of the Tropics
6.5/10
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier to their happin...
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Lady of the Tropics
1939
Everything Happens at Night
5.3/5
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Everything Happens at Night
1932
Under-Cover Man
6.333/3
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...
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Under-Cover Man
1941
Doctors Don't Tell
5.222/9
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethi...
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Doctors Don't Tell
1941
Rags to Riches
9.5/2
A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
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Rags to Riches
1933
Footlight Parade
6.816/103
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going...
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Footlight Parade
1943
The Unknown Guest
7/1
Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.
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The Unknown Guest
1930
Morocco
6.373/162
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
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Morocco
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.548/405
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1940
Brother Orchid
6.646/41
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...
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Brother Orchid
1932
Devil and the Deep
5/14
Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavi...
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Devil and the Deep
1930
A Lady's Morals
5/6
Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.
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A Lady's Morals
1935
The Payoff
5.5/8
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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The Payoff
1935
Waterfront Lady
5.25/4
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers...
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Waterfront Lady
1935
A Night at the Ritz
6.5/2
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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A Night at the Ritz
1940
Torrid Zone
7.042/12
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Torrid Zone
1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
4.8/15
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1936
The Lady Consents
6.4/5
Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
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The Lady Consents
1932
Stowaway
6.5/2
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and bei...
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Stowaway
1941
Road to Happiness
5.667/6
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
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Road to Happiness
1935
Enter Madame
5.8/5
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
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Enter Madame
1933
Flying Down to Rio
6.296/72
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance,...
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Flying Down to Rio
1937
The Bride Wore Red
6.804/23
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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The Bride Wore Red
1937
Big Town Girl
7/2
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a cro...
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Big Town Girl
1931
Party Husband
6.5/2
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its pr...
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Party Husband
1937
Maytime
6.769/13
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
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Maytime
1933
Saturday's Millions
7/2
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainte...
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Saturday's Millions
1936
Muss 'em Up
6/5
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attrac...
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Muss 'em Up
1933
King Kong
7.6/1606
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darro...
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King Kong
1929
Broadway
5.688/16
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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Broadway
1937
Seventh Heaven
6.412/17
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the sev...
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Seventh Heaven
1932
Red Haired Alibi
4.769/13
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Red Haired Alibi
1932
The Death Kiss
5.292/36
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...
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The Death Kiss
1943
Hi Diddle Diddle
6.571/14
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things...
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Hi Diddle Diddle
1934
The Great Flirtation
3.5/4
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
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The Great Flirtation
1932
A Woman Commands
9/2
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's car...
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A Woman Commands
1943
Background to Danger
6.661/28
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1934
Chained
7.1/17
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose inter...
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Chained
1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
6/13
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awar...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1936
Crash Donovan
8/1
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Crash Donovan
1934
Coming Out Party
6/2
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-wille...
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Coming Out Party
1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
4.167/6
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
1934
Imitation of Life
7.029/87
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
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Imitation of Life
1945
I'll Remember April
4.5/4
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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I'll Remember April
1932
The Passionate Plumber
6.091/11
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....
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The Passionate Plumber
1935
Go Into Your Dance
7.2/5
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Go Into Your Dance
1936
Trouble for Two
6.6/5
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called Th...
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Trouble for Two
1930
Such Men Are Dangerous
5.4/5
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
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Such Men Are Dangerous
1938
Vacation from Love
10/1
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.
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Vacation from Love
1930
Derelict
9/2
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they bo...
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Derelict
1943
Melody Parade
8/1
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
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Melody Parade
1934
Million Dollar Baby
10/1
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirle...
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Million Dollar Baby
1933
The Devil's Mate
8/1
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does...
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The Devil's Mate
1933
He Couldn't Take It
10/1
Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes...
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He Couldn't Take It
1930
Murder on the Roof
7/1
This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts...
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Murder on the Roof
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
7.164/76
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1933
Roman Scandals
5.87/23
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olde...
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Roman Scandals
1927
Wedding Bills
8/1
The best man at an upcoming wedding goes to a jeweler to pick up the wedding ring and is also given a bracelet, on approval, worth $25,000. On his way...
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