Charles D. Brown

Charles D. Brown

Charles D. Brown was an American stage and screen actor. His Broadway career spanned the years 1911 through 1937, while his film career, that included more than 100 movies, stretched from 1921 to his death in 1948. Brown additionally, in 1914, wrote and directed one short film, The Bank Burglar's Fate.

  • Title: Charles D. Brown
  • Popularity: 2.432
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-06-30
  • Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
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  • Also Known As: Chas. D. Brown, C.D. Brown, Charles Brown
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Charles D. Brown Movies

  • 1946
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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    7.6 1946 HD

    Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

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  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.8 1940 HD

    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

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  • 1940
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    Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    5.6 1940 HD

    As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

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  • 1949
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    Follow Me Quietly

    Follow Me Quietly

    6.1 1949 HD

    When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at...

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  • 1946
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    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    7.088 1946 HD

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married....

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  • 1940
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    Brother Orchid

    Brother Orchid

    6.4 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Apology for Murder

    Apology for Murder

    4.8 1945 HD

    Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit...

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  • 1939
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    Charlie Chan in Reno

    Charlie Chan in Reno

    6.2 1939 HD

    Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which...

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  • 1946
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    Night Editor

    Night Editor

    5.5 1946 HD

    A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

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  • 1946
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    The Killers

    The Killers

    7.3 1946 HD

    Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight....

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  • 1947
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    Railroaded!

    Railroaded!

    6.7 1947 HD

    A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an...

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  • 1947
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    The Senator Was Indiscreet

    The Senator Was Indiscreet

    5.4 1947 HD

    A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...

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  • 1940
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    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    1 1940 HD

    Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the...

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  • 1938
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    Barefoot Boy

    Barefoot Boy

    5.6 1938 HD

    A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

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  • 1942
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    Fingers at the Window

    Fingers at the Window

    5.4 1942 HD

    In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

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  • 1948
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    I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

    I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

    5.4 1948 HD

    An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real...

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  • 1947
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    Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

    Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

    6 1947 HD

    A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

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  • 1946
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    The Last Crooked Mile

    The Last Crooked Mile

    4.7 1946 HD

    A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

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  • 1944
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    Secret Command

    Secret Command

    6.8 1944 HD

    Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman....

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  • 1946
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    Danger Woman

    Danger Woman

    1 1946 HD

    A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

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  • 1943
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    Minesweeper

    Minesweeper

    5 1943 HD

    A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and...

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  • 1942
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    Roxie Hart

    Roxie Hart

    6.935 1942 HD

    A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

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  • 1941
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    Tall, Dark and Handsome

    Tall, Dark and Handsome

    5.4 1941 HD

    Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Moto in Danger Island

    Mr. Moto in Danger Island

    7 1939 HD

    In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...

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  • 1948
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    In This Corner

    In This Corner

    1 1948 HD

    A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

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  • 1947
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    Merton of the Movies

    Merton of the Movies

    6.8 1947 HD

    In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

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  • 1938
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    Think It Over

    Think It Over

    6.5 1938 HD

    A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

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  • 1938
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    The Duke of West Point

    The Duke of West Point

    3.8 1938 HD

    A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

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  • 1940
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    Wolf of New York

    Wolf of New York

    7 1940 HD

    A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.

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  • 1945
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    Having Wonderful Crime

    Having Wonderful Crime

    6.3 1945 HD

    Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

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  • 1941
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    Devil Pays Off

    Devil Pays Off

    3.3 1941 HD

    A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

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  • 1947
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    Undercover Maisie

    Undercover Maisie

    8 1947 HD

    Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants...

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  • 1939
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    The Ice Follies of 1939

    The Ice Follies of 1939

    5.6 1939 HD

    Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

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  • 1946
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    In Fast Company

    In Fast Company

    6.3 1946 HD

    The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

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  • 1940
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    He Married His Wife

    He Married His Wife

    5.1 1940 HD

    Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

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  • 1946
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    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream

    6.5 1946 HD

    Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

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  • 1946
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    The Searching Wind

    The Searching Wind

    1 1946 HD

    Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in...

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  • 1938
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    Exposed

    Exposed

    5 1938 HD

    A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

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  • 1939
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    Disbarred

    Disbarred

    6 1939 HD

    The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing...

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  • 1942
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    Sweater Girl

    Sweater Girl

    4 1942 HD

    College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

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  • 1946
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    The Man Who Dared

    The Man Who Dared

    3.7 1946 HD

    A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when...

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  • 1931
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    The False Madonna

    The False Madonna

    6.3 1931 HD

    A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

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  • 1938
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    Algiers

    Algiers

    6.3 1938 HD

    Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers....

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  • 1938
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    The Crowd Roars

    The Crowd Roars

    6.5 1938 HD

    A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...

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  • 1939
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    Inside Story

    Inside Story

    1 1939 HD

    A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..

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  • 1945
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    Sunbonnet Sue

    Sunbonnet Sue

    5 1945 HD

    Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's...

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  • 1929
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    The Dance of Life

    The Dance of Life

    5.9 1929 HD

    A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to...

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  • 1939
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    Tell No Tales

    Tell No Tales

    5.3 1939 HD

    A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

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  • 1939
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    Kid Nightingale

    Kid Nightingale

    5.5 1939 HD

    A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

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  • 1939
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    Smashing the Money Ring

    Smashing the Money Ring

    5 1939 HD

    T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

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  • 1939
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    Babes in Arms

    Babes in Arms

    6.4 1939 HD

    Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

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  • 1941
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    Ride, Kelly, Ride

    Ride, Kelly, Ride

    1 1941 HD

    A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

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  • 1940
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    I Take This Woman

    I Take This Woman

    6.2 1940 HD

    On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

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  • 1938
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    The Shopworn Angel

    The Shopworn Angel

    7.1 1938 HD

    During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Moto's Gamble

    Mr. Moto's Gamble

    6.3 1938 HD

    Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training...

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  • 1946
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    Notorious

    Notorious

    7.7 1946 HD

    In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war...

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  • 1945
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    Eve Knew Her Apples

    Eve Knew Her Apples

    5.2 1945 HD

    Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She...

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  • 1940
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    The Leather Pushers

    The Leather Pushers

    1 1940 HD

    A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle...

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  • 1946
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    Just Before Dawn

    Just Before Dawn

    6.2 1946 HD

    In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an...

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  • 1940
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    Boom Town

    Boom Town

    6.9 1940 HD

    Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

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  • 1944
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    Up in Arms

    Up in Arms

    5.9 1944 HD

    Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

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  • 1946
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    The Hoodlum Saint

    The Hoodlum Saint

    5.2 1946 HD

    A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

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  • 1940
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    Florian

    Florian

    1 1940 HD

    Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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  • 1940
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    Johnny Apollo

    Johnny Apollo

    6.7 1940 HD

    Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

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  • 1940
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    City of Chance

    City of Chance

    5.2 1940 HD

    Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

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  • 1937
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    Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

    Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

    5.7 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    The Fighting Seabees

    The Fighting Seabees

    6.2 1944 HD

    Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...

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  • 1940
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    Know Your Money

    Know Your Money

    9 1940 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb...

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  • 1940
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    Buyer Beware

    Buyer Beware

    6 1940 HD

    This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

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  • 1944
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    The Racket Man

    The Racket Man

    6 1944 HD

    A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by...

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  • 1931
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    The Road to Reno

    The Road to Reno

    3 1931 HD

    Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact...

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  • 1931
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    The Secret Call

    The Secret Call

    1 1931 HD

    The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a...

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  • 1943
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    A Lady Takes a Chance

    A Lady Takes a Chance

    5.7 1943 HD

    A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

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  • 1936
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    Gold Diggers of 1937

    Gold Diggers of 1937

    5.813 1936 HD

    The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by...

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  • 1941
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    International Lady

    International Lady

    6.4 1941 HD

    Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as...

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  • 1948
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    On Our Merry Way

    On Our Merry Way

    5.5 1948 HD

    Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the...

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  • 1943
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    Bombardier

    Bombardier

    5.4 1943 HD

    A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude...

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  • 1938
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    Speed to Burn

    Speed to Burn

    6 1938 HD

    Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.

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  • 1943
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    Destroyer

    Destroyer

    6.6 1943 HD

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the...

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  • 1941
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    Reaching for the Sun

    Reaching for the Sun

    6 1941 HD

    Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

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  • 1946
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    Tomorrow Is Forever

    Tomorrow Is Forever

    6.1 1946 HD

    In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her...

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  • 1921
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    The Way of a Maid

    The Way of a Maid

    1 1921 HD

    A silent film comedy.

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  • 1944
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    Jam Session

    Jam Session

    6 1944 HD

    A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

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  • 1940
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    Pier 13

    Pier 13

    5 1940 HD

    A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

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  • 1940
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    Sailor's Lady

    Sailor's Lady

    4 1940 HD

    Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

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  • 1940
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    Forgotten Girls

    Forgotten Girls

    5 1940 HD

    A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.

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  • 1938
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    Island in the Sky

    Island in the Sky

    7 1938 HD

    A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

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  • 1938
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    Up the River

    Up the River

    1 1938 HD

    A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was...

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  • 1938
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    Flight to Fame

    Flight to Fame

    5 1938 HD

    An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

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  • 1939
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    Little Accident

    Little Accident

    2 1939 HD

    A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

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  • 1931
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    Touchdown!

    Touchdown!

    1 1931 HD

    Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

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  • 1947
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    I Walk Alone

    I Walk Alone

    6.6 1947 HD

    Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

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  • 1943
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    Swing Shift Maisie

    Swing Shift Maisie

    6.5 1943 HD

    Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

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  • 1941
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    Maisie Was a Lady

    Maisie Was a Lady

    6.8 1941 HD

    Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...

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  • 1941
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    Glamour Boy

    Glamour Boy

    6 1941 HD

    Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...

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  • 1948
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    Let's Live Again

    Let's Live Again

    5 1948 HD

    The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

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  • 1921
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    A Man of Stone

    A Man of Stone

    1 1921 HD

    Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to...

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