Ralph Murphy
Nacimiento : 1895-05-01, Rockville, Connecticut, United States of America
Muerte : 1967-02-10
Historia
Ralph Murphy was a director and writer, known for Mr. & Mrs. North (1952), Crossroads (1955) and Las Vegas Nights (1941). He was married to Gloria Dickson. He died on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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An adventure set deep in the Indian jungle as explorers seek out an ancient idol.
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Cuando tenía tres años, Ada, hija de los británicos McPherson, es capturada por la secta de la India Tukh para representar la encarnación de Kali. Siempre escondida en un vasto sistema subterráneo de cavernas, que vela por los sacrificios humanos. Han pasado 15 años cuando su padre finalmente la encuentra, e intenta rescatarla, junto con un cazador de serpientes que se ha enamorado de ella.
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En 1690, han pasado muchos años desde que el Capitán Blood fue indultado por la Corona por sus hazañas contra los españoles en la América española, y ahora vive tranquilamente en su plantación en las Indias Occidentales, la práctica de la medicina y la planificación de su boda con Isabel. Pero su existencia pacífica se hace añicos cuando Hilary Evans llega y lo arresta por una acusación de piratería. Alguien ha estado atacando las islas haciendo parecer que era el Capitán Blood quien las atacaba. Con el fin de probar su inocencia, el Capitán Blood volverá a navegar bajo el "Jolly Roger".
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A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
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Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
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Grif Holbrook y su ayudante, Barney Broderick, encargados de la investigación de una serie de secuestros de diligencias han seguido la pista a Jim Maroon, un forajido que ha estado vendiendo los carros a los confederados.
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Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
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A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
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The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
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Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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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 daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.
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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 daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.
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A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
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Tres marineros mercantes huyen de Japón y se refugian en una isla del Pacífico, donde se encuentran con un médico y su hija, que se ocupan de los nativos, una tribu hostil que quiere matar a los marineros por pisar su suelo sagrado.
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Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
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El agente de una cantante famosa piensa que podría recibir una buena publicidad si consigue emparejarla en una comedia romántica con un héroe de guerra.
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In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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Pop, un guardia de seguridad de Paramount le dijo a su hijo que él es el jefe del estudio. Las cosas se vuelven más complicadas cuando Pop acepta organizar un espectáculo para la Marina protagonizado por las principales estrellas de la Paramount.
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Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper (Robert Preston) escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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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 in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
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A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
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100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
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Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Theatre Play
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
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When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
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Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
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A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
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Cuando el romance entre un cantante radiofónico y una empleada de la emisora se va al garete, ella se va de fin de semana con su jefe, mientras el cantante seduce a otra. Reunidos todos en un ascensor, el cable se rompe y el ascensor queda colgado entre dos pisos...
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Tres personas son amenazadas de muerte por su supuesta implicación en la trágica muerte del hermano de un psicópata.
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Tras una prolongada estancia en Inglaterra, Sophie Lang, famosa ladrona de joyas, regresa a Estados Unidos. Un detective de la policía de Nueva York cree que puede apresarla si consigue que se enamore de un famoso ladrón de joyas que está viajando por el país bajo un nombre falso.
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An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
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"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
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In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
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Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Una bibliotecaria tímida e ingenua de Nueva York debe volverse más fuerte y más sabia después de descubrir que su nuevo esposo es un mentiroso, un tramposo y un fraude.
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An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
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Un humilde empleado de hotel es engañado por unos estafadores para que compre unos terrenos pantanosos, que al final valen una fortuna.
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A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
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After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men-- Men who once devoted their time to her mother.
