Joseph Hoffman
Nacimiento : 1909-02-20, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1997-05-25
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El teniente Brian Fleming se ofrece voluntario para llevar a cabo un plan de la marina británica. Será acusado de una grave ofensa y expulsado de la marina. Así podrá infiltrase en las filas del pirata Diego Suárez. Una vez en su fortaleza, se dedicará a recopilar valiosa información. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Bob Weston es el canallesco editor de una publicación que se vanagloria de difamar a los protagonistas de sus artículos. Su próxima víctima será la psicóloga Helen Brown, autora de una guía para que las mujeres solteras encuentren al hombre de sus sueños. Bob quiere entrevistarla, pero Helen se niega a recibirlo, así que tendrá que ingeniárselas para llegar hasta ella
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An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
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La prometida de un trampero parte hacia Francia y es secuestrada por unos piratas, que la trasladan a Marruecos. El trampero viaja hasta el país para rescatarla.
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Un oficial de la Armada es enviado a Laramie, donde tiene que descubrir porqué la construcción de las vías del tren está parada.
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Zachary Hallock y su hijo Josué, son agricultores en una comunidad fronteriza que está siendo asediada por proscritos. Los granjeros quieren formar un frente unido contra los bandidos, pero Hallock rechaza unirse a ellos, aún después del asesinato del detective Pinkerton. Inesperadamente, Hallock decide unirse a los proscritos ante el estupor de su hijo y de su prometida Sarah Jane Skaggs. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Año 1700. Un capitán inglés (Errol Flynn) se ha infiltrado entre los corsarios de una isla del Índico con el fin de destruir sus fortificaciones. No contaba, sin embargo, con enamorarse de una enérgica y bella mujer pirata (Maureen O'Hara).
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Un pistolero que se ha ganado una buena reputación por su habilidad en el duelo, llega a un pequeño pueblo que vive bajo el terror de una banda de forajidos. El joven decide ponerse de parte del sheriff... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Un anciano millonario sin familia, que pretende dejar toda su fortuna a los descendientes de una novia suya que lo rechazó, se traslada a la localidad donde residen para comprobar cómo viven sus futuros herederos.
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Alvah (Tony Curtis), un chico de una pequeña localidad, viaja a Las Vegas con Lee (Piper Laurie), la hija de su ama de llaves. Uno de los films menos conocidos de Douglas Sirk. Se basa en la novela "My True Love", de Darwin L. Teihet.
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Francia, 1648. Tras la muerte de Richelieu y de Luis XIII, el futuro rey, Luis XIV, además de huérfano, es menor de edad. Aprovechándose de esta situación, el duque de Lavalle organiza una rebelión para apoderarse del trono. Dadas las circunstancias, la Reina Ana de Austria convoca a los descendientes de los mosqueteros para que derroten a los rebeldes y coloquen en el trono a Luis XIV.
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Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.
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Un nuevo grupo de reclutas llega a una base de entrenamiento de la Fuerza Aérea. Uno de los cadetes se enamora de la adorable Janet, quien resulta ser la esposa del comandante Page...
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Deborah McCoy se mete como polizón en un barco sin saber que se trata del barco pirata del capitán Baptiste. (FILMAFFINITY)
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A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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Cuando un ama de casa (Madeleine Carroll) encuentra a su ocupado marido tonteando con una atractiva viuda, decide pagarle con la misma moneda y ponerle celoso con un magnate del tabaco.
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Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors,i.e, suckers and buyers. But one of the investors dies intestate and his interests pass to the state. The governor's secretary (Lynne Roberts) engages new talent (the Four Step Brothers, Guadalajara Trio, St. Clair & Vilvoa, Dolores and Don Graham, et al) and a new orchestra (Jan Savitt), in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state. Barry (in another of the vast majority of his films in which he was not billed as Don "Red" Barry), who has fallen in love with the first-billed Roberts, reforms and buys up the surplus stock.
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A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
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Gay Thomson y Sara Durand son dos doctores americanos que trabajan en una misión religiosa en un hospital de una ciudad de la China. El doctor Gray está al cargo del hospital y su compañera la doctora Durand está secretamente enamorada de él. Gray vuelve de los Estados Unidos con nuevo equipamiento para el hospital y una nueva esposa, Louise, que está celosa de Sara. Pero pronto Louise demostrará su cobardía cuando después de un primer bombardeo japonés quiere volver con su marido a los Estados Unidos.
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When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
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En un reino renacentista , tan pronto la tribu gitana de Anube acampa cerca del pueblo del Barón Tovar, el conde Orso es encontrado asesinado. El malvado barón culpa a los gitanos y los encarcela a todos en su castillo. Mientras tanto, un misterioso desconocido montado en un caballo blanco ha ocultado la flecha del asesinato y se ha ganado el corazón de la gitana Carla, para el desconcierto de su antiguo prometido Tonio. El Barón Tovar también está fascinado por Carla ... especialmente cuando nota su colgante heráldico.
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A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
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William Warner is a lawyer who is famous for his skill at opening any kind of lock, making him a valuable commodity. William is unknowingly enlisted by German spies who want him to open a chest containing a secret formula. This leads to a madcap adventure involving spies, the police and lots of picked locks!
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Año 1942. Siete semanas después del ataque japonés a Pearl Harbour, un pelotón de marines voluntarios, tras un viaje en submarino, comienzan a desarrollar su peligrosa misión: tomar una isla controlada por los japoneses.
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Un ambicioso compositor de musicales, dotado de un mal de ojo hipnótico, se ve mezclado en la promoción de un boxeador.
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While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
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Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go to work hauling nitro. "Buzz" makes a play for Connie Baker (Jean Parker), Mike's secretary and girlfriend, and also for Doris Lynch (Barbara Lynn), fiancée of Connie's younger brother, Jimmy ('Rand Brooks'), and gets Jimmy to replace him on a dangerous nitro haul and Jimmy, of course, has an accident and gets killed. But "Buzz" finds a way to redeem himself. The hard way.
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The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town welcomes the former cons with open arms, helping them re-open a dormant canning factory and encouraging them to hire other reformed criminals.
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A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
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A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
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A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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The scout's grandson foils land-grabbers; his sidekick flirts with twins.
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Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life.
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The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
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A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
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Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
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While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Warning of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.
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After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
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A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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En esta ocasión el detective oriental Charlie Chan resuelve el caso de una heredera a quien se presume muerta, aparece sana y salva y posteriormente es asesinada de verdad. (FILMAFFINIT)
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A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.