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An unjustly banned horse trainer (William Boyd) makes a comeback with a once-lame longshot.
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A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations–and men–of big-city life.
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Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.
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- Comments Off on Royal Bed 1931
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.
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- Comments Off on Hoodlum Girls 1944
Katy White, is at death’s door in an emergency hospital but is hanging on long enough to tell her story. In flashback, Katy tells of her widowed father , a bank guard trying to raise two teen-age daughters…Katy the nice girl and her sister, Laura the not-quite-nice girl. Katy tries to guide her sister away from bad company, but isn’t having much success. Al, Laura’s hoodlum boyfriend, asks her to steal her father’s gun.She does so. Meanwhile, under the guidance of Helen Clark, a kindly policewoman, the better-supervised kids open up a JIVE Club in order to keep off of the Mean Streets and not drift into juvenile delinquency. Joy and Laura join the club but Laura only in order to keep late hours with Al. But Joy is keeping a watchful eye on Laura.
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Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome “tramp” who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur’s uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.
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- Comments Off on Return Of Tin Tin 1947
This film stars Donald Woods as an American priest assigned to a postwar European mission. Bobby Blake is a young war orphan whose harrowing experiences have soured him on mankind. Father Woods brings the boy to America, but the lad is still unapproachable until he befriends Rin Tin Tin.
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- Comments Off on Close-Up 1948
After his photo is accidentally taken, that someone will do everything in his power to get hold of the negative.
