Russ Powell
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Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7505 |
| Birthday | 1875-09-16 |
| Place of Birth | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Also Known As | J. Russell Powell, Russell Powell, Rusell Powell, R. Powell, |
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
6.559/51
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Th...
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Theodora Goes Wild
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
6.286/28
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off f...
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The Cowboy and the Lady
1927
Soft Cushions
7/1
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Waz...
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Soft Cushions
1942
To Be or Not to Be
7.804/831
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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To Be or Not to Be
1936
Earthworm Tractors
5.333/6
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Earthworm Tractors
1927
No Place to Go
8/1
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
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No Place to Go
1924
Dynamite Smith
10/1
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is eq...
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Dynamite Smith
1936
Wedding Present
6.25/16
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great...
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Wedding Present
1923
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6.541/134
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral ca...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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
1933
The House on 56th Street
5.25/8
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suici...
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The House on 56th Street
1936
Come and Get It
6.821/42
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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Come and Get It
1939
The Night of Nights
8/1
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...
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The Night of Nights
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
1928
The Mysterious Lady
7.278/36
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in dang...
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The Mysterious Lady
1930
The Grand Parade
7/1
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the s...
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The Grand Parade
1932
If I Had a Million
6.609/46
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million
1932
Downstairs
6.556/18
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive....
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Downstairs
1922
The Ropin' Fool
7/3
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
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The Ropin' Fool
1923
Kindled Courage
7/1
Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots two ruffians, but Andy is hailed as the hero and m...
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Kindled Courage
1932
Broken Lullaby
7.466/44
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each h...
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Broken Lullaby
1926
Flesh and the Devil
7.18/64
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...
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Flesh and the Devil
1937
The Wrong Road
4.75/8
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...
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The Wrong Road
1931
The Sin Ship
5.8/6
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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The Sin Ship
1935
Call of the Wild
6.245/53
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...
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Call of the Wild
1930
Burning Up
5.333/3
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a vic...
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Burning Up
1931
Ambassador Bill
6.4/5
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to...
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Ambassador Bill
1920
The Slim Princess
9/1
Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund you...
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The Slim Princess
1922
Head Over Heels
7/1
When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip t...
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Head Over Heels
1934
The Affairs of Cellini
5.214/14
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Affairs of Cellini
1929
Sailor's Holiday
6.125/4
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a s...
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Sailor's Holiday
1937
History Is Made at Night
6.676/54
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep he...
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History Is Made at Night
1930
Safety in Numbers
5.5/4
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.
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Safety in Numbers
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
5.852/27
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1937
Man Of The People
7/4
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Man Of The People
1936
Sutter's Gold
7/1
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Sutter's Gold
1936
Fatal Lady
10/1
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughl...
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Fatal Lady
1936
Give Me Your Heart
5.875/8
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Give Me Your Heart
1937
Draegerman Courage
7.333/3
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Draegerman Courage
1931
Sweepstakes
5.667/3
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Sweepstakes
1933
Storm at Daybreak
6.6/5
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza...
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Storm at Daybreak
1939
Son of Frankenstein
6.701/273
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is control...
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Son of Frankenstein
1939
Union Pacific
6.665/79
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1939
Tower of London
6.083/48
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne,...
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Tower of London
1939
The Spellbinder
6.333/3
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...
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The Spellbinder
1939
Chicken Wagon Family
10/1
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading t...
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Chicken Wagon Family
1935
The Call of the Savage
6/2
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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The Call of the Savage
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
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.328/218
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1937
She Loved a Fireman
7.5/2
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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She Loved a Fireman
1936
Modern Times
8.28/4064
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the w...
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Modern Times
1928
Riley the Cop
5.727/11
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Riley the Cop
1933
Parachute Jumper
5.85/21
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Parachute Jumper
1937
Paradise Express
5.75/4
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Paradise Express
1930
Check and Double Check
5.714/7
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fan...
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Check and Double Check
1918
A Blind Pig
10/1
A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes surviving.
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A Blind Pig
1933
Arabian Tights
7/1
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
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Arabian Tights
1940
When the Daltons Rode
6.227/22
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing the...
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When the Daltons Rode
1940
The Return of Frank James
6.296/140
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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The Return of Frank James
1927
The Red Mill
6.588/17
A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
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The Red Mill
1927
Mockery
6.9/10
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman...
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Mockery
1936
I Married a Doctor
5.25/4
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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I Married a Doctor
1936
Man Hunt
10/1
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Man Hunt
1931
Quick Millions
7.273/11
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...
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Quick Millions
1935
The Arizonian
8/1
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...
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The Arizonian
1935
The Three Musketeers
6.938/8
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and A...
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The Three Musketeers
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
1940
The House of the Seven Gables
6.984/31
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Cliffo...
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The House of the Seven Gables
1937
Champagne Waltz
10/2
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...
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Champagne Waltz
1931
Are These Our Children?
6.833/6
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding...
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Are These Our Children?
1929
Fashions in Love
7/1
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Fashions in Love
1937
Music for Madame
6.333/3
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...
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Music for Madame
1941
Citizen Kane
7.977/6020
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1934
Two Alone
7.333/3
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they...
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Two Alone
1924
Open All Night
8.5/2
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to...
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Open All Night
1941
The Son of Davy Crockett
10/1
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land...
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The Son of Davy Crockett
1928
Napoleon's Barber
6/2
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the ma...
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Napoleon's Barber
1927
Surrender
6.5/2
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overr...
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Surrender
1941
That Hamilton Woman
7.18/89
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her ris...
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That Hamilton Woman
1927
The Show
6.115/13
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salo...
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The Show
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
1939
I Stole a Million
8/2
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million
1930
The Texan
6.167/12
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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The Texan
1933
One Sunday Afternoon
6.625/8
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed hi...
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One Sunday Afternoon
1928
That Certain Thing
6.727/11
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
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That Certain Thing
1928
Vamping Venus
7/1
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.
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Vamping Venus
1931
The Conquering Horde
7/2
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near...
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The Conquering Horde
1916
Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
10/1
Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7.085/59
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1929
The Wild Party
6.846/13
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets i...
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The Wild Party
1933
Goldie Gets Along
5.667/3
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Goldie Gets Along
1938
The Jury's Secret
5/4
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the inn...
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The Jury's Secret
1938
If I Were King
7.143/14
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
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If I Were King
1938
Joy of Living
5.875/8
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic...
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Joy of Living
1935
Public Hero Number 1
6.2/10
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb...
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Public Hero Number 1
1931
The Public Enemy
7.25/388
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...
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The Public Enemy
1927
When a Man Loves
6/10
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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When a Man Loves
1934
The Merry Frinks
4.75/4
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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The Merry Frinks
1921
The Concert
10/1
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four...
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The Concert
1936
One Rainy Afternoon
5/12
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki...
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One Rainy Afternoon
1924
A Boy of Flanders
8/1
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
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A Boy of Flanders
1931
An American Tragedy
6.3/18
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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An American Tragedy
1935
Mad Love
7.012/124
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
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Mad Love
1920
The Soul of Youth
5.222/9
Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he fin...
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The Soul of Youth
1936
Divot Diggers
6.333/6
When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
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Divot Diggers
1932
Me and My Gal
6.4/40
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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Me and My Gal
1930
The Big Trail
6.725/129
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Camer...
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The Big Trail
1925
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
7/1
To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting hi...
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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
1956
Savage Fury
7/1
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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Savage Fury
1933
Zoo in Budapest
4.8/15
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a y...
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Zoo in Budapest
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
1930
Paramount on Parade
6.111/9
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Paramount on Parade
1920
Smoldering Embers
7/1
When John Conroy's wife takes his infant son Jack and runs away with another man, Conroy becomes a tramp and goes to Alaska. Fifteen years later, he r...
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Smoldering Embers
1922
Through a Glass Window
9/1
Mrs. Martin lives in New York's East Side with her son, Dan, who sells papers, and her daughter, Jenny, who works in a local doughnut shop. During the...
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Through a Glass Window
1919
Brothers Divided
7/1
Convict Tom King is pardoned from a life sentence when he courageously helps other prisoners during a fire. He then goes to live with his brother Matt...
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Brothers Divided
1929
Dangerous Curves
6.667/6
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...
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Dangerous Curves
1938
Snowtime
9/1
Professor Owl is lecturing to his class of bird and animal students, when they students interrupt him with weather questions regarding what makes the...
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Snowtime
1923
One Stolen Night
10/2
Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is re...
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One Stolen Night
1930
One Romantic Night
5.75/4
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
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One Romantic Night
1932
The Golden West
5.5/2
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He m...
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