Romance Road (1938)
The railroad will go through with our bones for ballast
Genre : Adventure, Music, Romance, Western
Runtime : 19M
Director : Bobby Connolly
Writer : Ed Earl Repp
Synopsis
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.
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Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.
Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.
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