Harry Jackson
Nacimiento : 1896-04-15, Nebraska, USA
Muerte : 1953-08-03
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Harry Jackson (April 15, 1896 – August 3, 1953) was an American cinematographer.
Jackson was born in Nebraska, and was first employed in Hollywood as a still photographer for Warner Brothers. As a cinematographer he was active through the end of the silent era in 1927, through his death in 1953, shooting about 75 films altogether. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Color Cinematography for his work on 1947's Mother Wore Tights
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Una joven de buena familia debe elegir entre dos pretendientes: un violinista y un pianista. El primero vive tan entregado a la música que ella lo rechaza, pero pronto se dará cuenta del terrible error que ha cometido.
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Un cantante y bailarín de éxito, a pesar de que atraviesa una etapa muy crítica, está decidido a volver a Broadway, el escenario que le dio la gloria y la fama.
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Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
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1875. Después de enterarse de la muerte de su padre, el gaucho Miguel, decide regresar con su familia y sus amigos. Durante la fiesta que se celebra para festejar su vuelta, se entabla una lucha a muerte, en que su amigo Martín mata a su rival. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Un joven abogado de Boston, Albron Hamlin, viaja a Haiti en 1802 para encontrarse con Lydia Bailey, cuyas propiedades debe poner en orden. La isla se encuentra en un estado de guerra entre el presidente Toussaing L'Overture y los franceses que intentan volver a apoderarse de la isla. Hamlin encuentra a Lydia y, a pesar del ambiente de guerra y rebelión, se enamoran al tiempo que ayudan a los haitianos contra los franceses.
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Duncan McDonald se ha unido a la Policía Montada de Canadá y su primera misión será liberar a dos rehenes en manos de los indios que intentaban pasar la frontera hacia Estados Unidos.
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El capitán Providence, el último de los grandes piratas es, en realidad, una mujer, Anne, que siente un profundo odio hacia los ingleses porque mataron a su hermano. Tras el abordaje de un navío inglés, Anne libera a un francés que dice ser corsario y es enrolado en el barco de la mujer pirata, el Reina de Saba.
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A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
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Una compañía de marines llega a una isla del Pacífico con la peligrosa misión de localizar y destruir una base japonesa de misiles, fortificada y oculta en mitad de una jungla infestada de enemigos. Al mando está un oficial (Richard Widmark), profesor en la vida civil, que intentará convertir su irregular pelotón en una sólida unidad de combate.
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Soldados Americanos varados en las Filipinas después de la invasión Japonesa forman guerrillas para contraatacar.
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Nueva York, mediados de la década de 1910. Bert Kalmar ha alcanzado la cumbre de su carrera como artista de vodevil con su pareja de baile y novia, Jessie Brown. Bert propone matrimonio a Jessie pero ella insiste en que esperen. Un día, Bert se lesiona la rodilla y la lesión le impedirá bailar durante al menos un año.
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El dueño de una línea de diligencias contrata a un pistolero para sabotear el camino de una locomotora que representa una amenaza para su negocio. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
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Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
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Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
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Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
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A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Tras una matanza perpetrada por apaches, un general es sospechoso de traición y muere durante el juicio. Sus dos hijos intentarán devolver el honor a su padre, descubriendo que tras el asunto hay turbios intereses mineros. Cada uno de ellos seguirá la investigación a su manera, uno de forma sutil y el otro siguiendo métodos más violentos.
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Primera colaboración entre Betty Grable y Dan Dailey, una pareja con mucho menos glamour que la formada por la mítica Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, pero que alcanzó en Estados Unidos cierta popularidad -en especial la "pin up" Miss Grable que ofrece aquí una de sus mejores y más aclamadas interpretaciones-. Un musical colorido y con cierto encanto cuyo mayor atractivo es su nostálgica banda sonora -ganadora del Oscar-. (FILMAFFINITY)
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En Costa Rica todo es color, y nos muestran la historia de una pareja joven, Dick Haymes en la plenitud de su popularidad junto a la guapa Vera Ellen, quien, en contra de la voluntad de sus padres, se niega a casarse.
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Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
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A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.
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Crónica del típico niño rico de familia bien que se alista en los Marines y pondrá a prueba la paciencia de sus superiores hasta lo indecible. Al final se convertirá en un excelente soldado, al tiempo que intentará conquistar a una guapa enfermera.
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A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
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Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
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Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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Cuando el cantante Frank Alton llega tarde al trabajo en una estación de radio en Nueva York, Conroy, el gerente, lo despide. Sin Frank en el programa, Ninón Silk Stockings, el patrocinador del programa, comienza a perder ventas. El presidente de la compañía, John Baxter, y su aburrida hija Lolita, se consternan al saber que Frank ha comenzado a trabajar para su competidor, Bon Soir Stockings. Después de enterarse de que Frank está robando a sus clientes, Lolita convence a su padre y sus asociados, que no creen que las mujeres puedan hacer el trabajo de "hombres", para que le permitan vender medias.
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A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
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Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.
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A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
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A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
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In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
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An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an unprincipled young woman who marries Jim after betraying her first fiancé, Billy, on their wedding day. Marie's extravagance causes Jim to steal money from the office safe and to bet on Billy. Billy wins, but Jim is arrested and sent to jail when Marie neglects to replace the stolen money. Jim serves his term and is reunited with Billy after Marie and her lover are turned out of the house.
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Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.
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The BFI holds a complete copy.
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A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
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Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.