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An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.
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Acogido por sus tíos después de quedar huérfano, Toby Tyler huye para unirse al circo.
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El cruzado enmascarado Zorro y su padre, Don Alejandro, se enfrentan al misterioso déspota El Águila en una lucha por el control de la vieja California española.
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The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.
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Después de trabajar durante años como cartero, Wilson Daniels (Fred MacMurray) considera a los perros sus peores enemigos. La situación se hace dramática cuando, por arte de un encantamiento oculto en un anillo, su hijo Wilby se transforma en un perro pastor.
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Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
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Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
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Falsamente acusado por el corrupto gobernador Elden de Charleston de robar un botín pirata , el joven Davey Crandall y su amigo Tom Botts compran un pasaje en el barco del bucanero local Bloodthirsty Ben. Evitan que los maten fingiendo un caso de viruela, lo que hace que el capitán y la tripulación aterrorizados abandonen el barco. Los dos se encuentran solos, y cuando un disparo de un cañón por suerte golpea un mástil en un barco británico, les confunden con piratas. Navegan a Tortuga, donde reclutan corsarios tan famosos como Henry Morgan, el Capitán Kidd, Anne Bonney y Barbanegra para asediar a Chaleston y exponer al villano Elden.
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Roger Bradley, desesperado por salir de la ociosidad consigue trabajo con el archirival de su padre. Pronto se enamora de la hija de su jefe y su trabajo como lechero se desvirtúa.
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The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Abbot es un detective, y Costello el botones de un hotel. Cuando uno de los huéspedes, Amos Strickland, es asesinado, se descubre que todos tenían motivos para querer desear su muerte. Pero el principal sospechoso del crimen es Costello.
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Buzz Johnson y Stanley Livington tienen una vida tranquila trabajando como dependientes en una librería. Un día entra en la tienda una atractiva mujer, buscando un libro titulado ”África Negra”. Queriendo impresionarla, Buzz se inventa que Stanley es un buen amigo del autor del libro y que le ha acompañado varias veces en sus viajes a África. La mujer, Diana, le pide que le haga un mapa para su próxima expedición, a cambio de una buena suma de dinero. Pero la noche en que tienen que entregar el mapa y recibir el dinero, son secuestrados y llevados a África... (FILMAFFINITY-SETROC)
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Joe Bascomb persigue al estafador Harry Lambert hasta la Ciudad de México, luego de que Harry aparentemente lo estafara en un negocio de acciones petrolíferas en los Estados Unidos. Harry es el agente artístico de la ex-novia de Joe, Mary, quien bajo el nombre de Montana se hace pasar por torera. Cuando Joe se encuentra con Harry en la plaza de toros, Mary está a punto de tirar su montera a la multitud donde el afortunado destinatario será proclamado 'embajador de buena voluntad' en la Semana del Amigo Americano, una festividad local que permite al ganador viajar por México durante una semana. En realidad Harry lo ha arreglado para que Mary arroje la montera a Gus Adamson, otro estafador, pero en vez de eso, Mary se la lanza enfurecida a Joe. Resulta que Joe ahora es el 'embajador de buena voluntad' pero, a su vez, también está siendo perseguido por las autoridades estadounidenses por participar en la estafa del petróleo...
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A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who used to give him trouble now engaged in sports and activities, furnished them gratis, under self-supervision. Abbott and Costello furnish a couple of bits to liven it up some.
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En el Museo del Terror de Londres van a exhibir los cuerpos de dos de las figuras más escalofriantes de todos los tiempos, dos de los monstruos más importantes dentro del imaginario terrorífico de la historia de la literatura fantástica. Se trata, nada más y nada menos, que del conde Drácula (interpretado por el mítico Bela Lugosi) y Frankenstein (encarnado por Glenn Strange).
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Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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Chester Wooley y Duke Egan son unos vendedores ambulantes que realizan una escala en Wagon Gap, Montana, mientras se dirigen a California. Durante la escala, un criminal famoso, Fred Hawkins, es asesinado, y los dos son acusados del crimen. Rápidamente son juzgados, condenados y sentenciados a morir en la horca. El jefe del comité de ciudadanos locales, Jim Simpson, recuerda una ley por la cual el vencedor en un duelo debe asumir la responsabilidad de las deudas y la familia del difunto. La ley impide la ejecución de los dos, pero ahora Chester es responsable de la viuda Hawkins y sus siete hijos...
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Después de servir con una notable falta de distinción en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el cabo Slicker Smith y el soldado Herbie Brown regresan a los Estados Unidos. Desconocido por su amargado sargento Collins, Slicker y Herbie se han traído a la pequeña huérfana de guerra Evie, ocultándola de las autoridades de inmigración. En sus esfuerzos por encontrar un hogar digno para Evie, nuestros héroes vuelven a los trabajos de antes de la guerra como vendedores ambulantes, para hacer después un desastroso intento de recolectar su dinero de los bonos de guerra. También luchan por salvar a Evie de la deportación, evitando por todos los medios al sargento Collins... Secuela de "Los reclutas" ("Buck Privates", 1941).
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When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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Los dos cómicos encarnan a sendos espíritus que fueron tachados por error de traidores. Como es lógico no pueden descansar en paz, así que deciden volver para probar su inocencia.
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An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
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Una psiquiatra trata de ayudar al hombre que ama a resolver un asesinato enterrado en su subconsciente.
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Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
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A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.
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A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
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Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
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Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
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This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
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Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.
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Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Musical comedy.
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Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
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Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.
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Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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Nurses parachuting.
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Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
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Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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Why did the Governor want to resign?
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On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
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A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
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The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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Steve Burton es un implacable reportero que está metido hasta las cejas en una espeluznante historia. El periodista dedica cada uno de sus esfuerzos a sacar a la luz un oscuro negocio de venta de bebés. Se trata de un tinglado que, de manera ilegal, convence a mujeres embarazadas para que den en adopción a sus hijos, que, posteriormente, ellos venden a otras parejas.
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Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
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The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Tim Kerry, un honrado policía, se lleva una gran alegría cuando su hijo, Ritzy, vuelve a casa, después de haber pasado dos años en prisión por cometer un delito. Tanto Tim, como Julia, la ex novia del muchacho, y sus antiguos amigos, esperan que se regenere y se busque un trabajo. Pero Claire Morelli, una mujer que lidera a la mafia local, le ofrece participar en un turbio asunto...
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The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
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Un grupo de legionarios franceses llega a un fuerte en medio del desierto y descubre que todos los hombres están muertos; apoyados en los muros y en posición de vigilancia, pero muertos. Este extraño suceso es el punto de partida de una enigmática historia relacionada con la desaparición de un valioso zafiro y con la historia de tres hermanos alistados en la legión por un asunto de honor.
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Dare Rudd (John Wayne) es un vaquero adicto al juego que, de paso por Montana conduciendo ganado, se encuentra con su primo Tom Fillmore (Johnny Mack Brown), respetado e influyente vaquero. Los dos se convierten en rivales por el amor de la novia de Tom, Judy Rustoe (Marsha Hunt), al tiempo que deberán unirse contra unos cuatreros.
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A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
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"Nevada" (Buster Crabbe) and "Weary" Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner (Lew Kelly). U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward (Purnell Pratt)is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine (William Duncan) and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine (June Martel), much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide (John Patterson). "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge. Wil the aid of the camp cook, Millie Moran (Ruth Warren) they escape and start in pursuit of Setter and his gang.
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Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.
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Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
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Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
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Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
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A gambler (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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Un bravo oficial británico, Michael Andrews (Grant), es capturado por un grupo de kurdos rebeldes. Uno de sus captores resulta ser John Stevenson (Rains), un inglés que lleva años viviendo en el desierto. Tras liberar a Andrews, Stevenson le revela sus intenciones: salvar a los armenios, aliados de los ingleses, de la muerte a manos de las fuerzas turcas. Su plan consiste en trasladar a un lugar seguro a toda la población armenia atravesando el desierto. Andrews le acompaña en el viaje y no tarda en interesarse por Lya (Burke), la sensual esposa del jefe de la tribu Armenia.
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A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made.
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A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
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In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
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Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), el nuevo director del prestigioso Huxley U, contrata a dos ineptos, Baravelli y Pinky, para ayudar a su escuela a ganar un partido de fútbol frente a su rival Darwin U.
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Un escritor alcohólico se dispone a estrenar su primera obra en Broadway, pero le conlleva tanto trabajo que le crea problemas matrimoniales...
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Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
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"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.
