Harold S. Bucquet
Nacimiento : 1891-04-10, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1946-02-13
Historia
From Wikipedia
Harold S. Bucquet (10 April 1891, London, England – 13 February 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film Torture Money won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject (Color).
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Una viuda permite a un científico que use el sótano de su casa para unos experimentos secretos relacionados con la guerra. Ambos están desilusionados con el amor, así que deciden casarse exclusivamente por conveniencia.
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Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los valores y principios de una familia china se desmoronan tras la invasión japonesa. Los occidentales se alían con los chinos para luchar contra el enemigo común. En estas circunstancias, una heroica mujer china se pone al frente de una revuelta contra los invasores nipones.
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British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
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Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
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Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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Un médico en silla de ruedas se enfrenta a un maníaco homicida.
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Kathleen es una niña de 12 años que vive en una casa grande con una niñera, un mayordomo, sirvientas, ninguna madre y un padre que trabaja la mayor parte del tiempo. Ella sueña con una familia con una madre, un padre y ella, y le dice a todos que ella tiene esa familia. Debido a esta historia, ella no puede invitar a ningún amigo, ya que verán que no es cierto.
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A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
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An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
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Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Cuando se casa, un hombre contraviene la política de su empresa.
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Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
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Un médico cura a un gangster y se enamora de su hermana.
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A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
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A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
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Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
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Episode 13 of the Crime Does Not Play series from MGM.
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
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From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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A man preparing to shoot his ailing elderly dog sadly recounts their time together.
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Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) es el capitán de un barco experto en cruzar los mares de China. Es un hombre experimentado, fuerte y aguerrido, al parecer de vuelta de todo. En cierta ocasión, el barco debe transportar un importante cargamento de oro desde Hong Kong hasta Singapur. Gaskell teme algo más peligroso que un tifón; el ataque, frecuente en la zona, de los piratas para hacerse con el botín.
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Elyot y Sibyl se casaron en una gran ceremonia en la iglesia. Amanda y Victor fueron casados por un juez francés de la Paz. Ambas parejas van a un hotel el mismo día y se ponen en la habitación contigua con terrazas colindantes. Las cosas van bien hasta que Amanda ve a su ex marido Elyot en la terraza adyacente...
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An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.
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An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Lisbeth es una mujer moderna que piensa que el matrimonio está pasado de moda. Ella tiene dos hombres en su vida, Steve, que quiere casarse con ella y Alan, que quiere que viaje con él. A pesar de todas las advertencias de sus amigos y familiares, Lisbeth va a México con Alan, donde ella es feliz hasta que descubre que él tiene una esposa en París...
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Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
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Adrienne, una niña gitana que actúa en un carnaval ambulante, es incapaz de encontrar el verdadero amor por sí misma hasta que conoce al príncipe Maurice. Se enamoran, pero deben separarse cuando, el príncipe debe iniciar una relación adultera con la esposa rica de un duque. Adrienne más tarde se convierte en una popular actriz de teatro y casualmente se encuentra con el príncipe nuevamente. Mientras Maurice está luchando por recuperar su trono a manos de un dictador usurpador. La película se considera perdida.
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Letty, una inocente joven de Virginia, se traslada desde el Este a las praderas de Texas, donde parece que el viento nunca deja de soplar y la arena llega a todas partes. Allí vive con unos parientes, pero, como no se siente querida, se verá abocada a un matrimonio que no desea. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Ben Blaine, un apuesto y joven millonario, es asediado por dos jovencitas. Ellas juegan a conquistarlo asumiendo roles opuestos a su verdadera personalidad. Diana, una chica de buenos sentimientos, se vuelve frívola y calculadora. Ann, es amoral, vana y se torna dulce y considerada.
Ben elige a Ann y se casan. Diana, perpleja y desesperada, trata de no seguir pensando en Ben pero el destino les depara una sorpresa que vuelve a reunirlos.
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Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
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In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
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Maggie es la primera actriz cómica del Follies, que anhela el tipo de relaciones románticas de sus más agraciadas compañeras de trabajo. Maggie, a resultas de caer en el tambor del batería de la orquesta, Al Cassidy, se enamora de éste. Se casan y tienen un hijo. Pero Selma Larson, una de las más guapas estrellas del Follies, se entrometerá en el matrimonio con el único fin de perjudicar a Maggie, ya que está celosa de ella por el éxito cómico de sus números...