Gregg Toland
Nascimento : 1904-05-29, Charleston, Illinois, USA
Morte : 1948-09-26
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Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
Toland was born in Charleston, Illinois on May 29, 1904. During the 1930s, Toland became the youngest cameraman in Hollywood but soon one of its most sought-after cinematographers. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the "Best Cinematography" Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights. He worked with many of the top directors of his era, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, Erich von Stroheim, King Vidor, Orson Welles, and William Wyler.
Toland was the subject of an "Annals of Hollywood" article in The New Yorker, "The Cameraman," by Hilton Als (June 19, 2006, p. 46). Just before his death, he was concentrating on the "ultimate focus" lens, which makes both near and far objects equally distinct. He died in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1948 of coronary thrombosis at age 44. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
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Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
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Mel Swanson, namorada de um gangster, vai se esconder quando o namorado dela está sendo investigado pela polícia. Que lugar melhor para se esconder do que um instituto de pesquisa musical composto inteiramente por solteiros solitários? Ela acaba ficando mais do que esperava quando o chefe do Instituto, Professor Hobart Frisbee, começa a se apaixonar por ela.
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Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
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Após a Segunda Guerra, 3 militares retornam aos seus lares e tentam se readaptar à sociedade. O maior clássico de guerra dos anos 40, este comovente e ainda atualíssimo filme, com roteiro de Robert Sherwood e a direção de Willian Wyller foi grande sucesso de bilheteria sendo vencedor de 7 Oscars.
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Morando com os avós, depois que os pais se separaram, garoto só encontra a alegria nas histórias contadas por velho empregado da fazenda, plenas do rico folclore do Sul dos EUA. Filme produzido por Walt Disney que mistura desenho e atores reais.
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Localizado no Rio de Janeiro, conta a história de Alicia e Devlin, dois polos completamente opostos que acabam se apaixonando devido ao tempo em que trabalharam juntos. Ela é filha de um espião alemão preso pelo governo dos EUA e, para evitar a morte do pai, é obrigada a ajudar o governo americano a prender inimigos mais importantes. Ele é um agente do governo que vai comandar a operação, monitorando para que tudo saia nas mais perfeitas condições planejadas.
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Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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A 1944 propaganda short film produced for the U.S. Treasury Department and intended to boost war bond sales, directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jennifer Jones as a nurse's aide.
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A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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O agora xerife Pat Garrett dá as boas-vindas ao seu amigo Doc Holliday em Lincoln, Novo México. Doc chega à cidade à procura de um pistoleiro que teria roubado seu cavalo em Socorro. Para sua surpresa, o pistoleiro é o jovem e famoso Billy the Kid.Ao encontrá-lo, tenta pegar seu cavalo, mas Billy reage. Pat chega ao local e, ao saber que o estranho é Billy the Kid, tenta prendê-lo. Doc intervém em favor de Billy e os dois recebem ordem para deixarem a cidade.À noite, ao tentar dormir num celeiro, Billy é atacado pela bela Rio MacDonald, numa tentativa de vingar a morte de seu irmão, ocorrida em Socorro, mas é por ele dominada. O xerife tenta novamente dar ordem de prisão a Billy e termina alvejando-o de raspão.
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"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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Oito professores estão voltados exclusivamente para a elaboração de um enciclopédia. Nenhum deles é casado, pois acredita-se que ter uma família pode ser prejudicial para o andamento dos trabalhos. Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), o mais novo dos professores, tem como função preparar a parte de literatura inglesa e quer incluir no seu trabalho as mais variadas formas de gíria. Assim anda entre a população fazendo anotações e encontra em Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), uma sexy cantora de boate, uma fonte inesgotável de termos popularescos. Inicialmente ela não colabora, mas ela namora um gângster, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), que foi solto por falta de provas. A Promotoria pretende detê-la para interrogatório até conseguir provas contra Joe, então O'Shea tem a idéia de se hospedar na casa onde os professores estão reunidos, usando o pretexto de que vai colaborar na enciclopédia, pois a polícia não a procurará em uma casa habitada por intelectuais.
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The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?
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Charles Foster Kane foi um menino pobre que acaba se tornando um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. O filme inicia com a sua morte, momentos antes da qual pronuncia a palavra "Rosebud". Após dias de sensacionalismo em cima da notícia de sua morte, o jornalista Jerry Thompson é enviado por seu chefe para investigar a vida de Kane, a fim de descobrir o sentido de sua última palavra, a qual ninguém sabia. Entrevistando pessoas do passado de Kane, o jornalista mergulha na vida de um homem solitário, que desde a infância é obrigado a seguir a vontade alheia. Ninguém a seu redor importa-se com Kane, que busca por meio da aquisição de bens a adoração das pessoas. Ao final, Thompson, após a exaustiva investigação da vida de Kane através de entrevistas, se vê incapaz de descobrir o significado da palavra, concluindo que "Charles Foster Kane foi um homem que possuiu tudo o que quis e depois perdeu tudo. Talvez Rosebud seja algo que ele nunca tenha possuído ou algo que tenha perdido".
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Charles Foster Kane foi um menino pobre que acaba se tornando um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. O filme inicia com a sua morte, momentos antes da qual pronuncia a palavra "Rosebud". Após dias de sensacionalismo em cima da notícia de sua morte, o jornalista Jerry Thompson é enviado por seu chefe para investigar a vida de Kane, a fim de descobrir o sentido de sua última palavra, a qual ninguém sabia. Entrevistando pessoas do passado de Kane, o jornalista mergulha na vida de um homem solitário, que desde a infância é obrigado a seguir a vontade alheia. Ninguém a seu redor importa-se com Kane, que busca por meio da aquisição de bens a adoração das pessoas. Ao final, Thompson, após a exaustiva investigação da vida de Kane através de entrevistas, se vê incapaz de descobrir o significado da palavra, concluindo que "Charles Foster Kane foi um homem que possuiu tudo o que quis e depois perdeu tudo. Talvez Rosebud seja algo que ele nunca tenha possuído ou algo que tenha perdido".
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A bordo do cargueiro Glencairn, a vida da tripulação é vivida com medo, solidão, suspeita e camaradagem. Os homens contrabandeiam bebida e mulheres para bordo, lutam uns com os outros, espionam uns aos outros, confortar uns aos outros quando a morte se aproxima, e ajudam o outro quando em perigo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
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Fazendeiros lutam pelo controle das terras do Juiz, o lendário Roy Bean, um homem que pode tanto temer como honrar a lei do Oeste. Walter Brennan (Kentucky), em sua 3ª atuação ganhadora de Prêmio da Academia*, vive o todo poderoso Roy Bean. O vencedor do Oscar® - Gary Cooper (High Noon) é Cole Hardin, um estranho acusado de roubar um cavalo, que tenta se livrar da forca graças a Bean. Dirigido pelo vencedor do Oscar® - William Wyler (Ben-Hur), A Última Fronteira é a saga de um homem que mostra coragem ao enfrentar seus inimigos.
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Tom, filho mais velho de uma pobre família de trabalhadores rurais, retorna para casa após cumprir pena por homicídio involuntário. Ele planeja levar os parentes até a Califórnia, onde dizem que trabalho não falta. Durante a viagem eles passam por diversos tipos de provações e quando finalmente chegam na "Terra Prometida" descobrem que é um lugar bem pior do que aquele que deixaram.
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Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
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The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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Humilhado por seu irmão de criação Hindley (Hugh Williams), Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) torna-se um homem rico e em busca de vingança. Ao mesmo tempo, porém, o rebelde nutre grande paixão por Cathy (Merle Oberon), irmã do homem que deseja matar e que, durante os anos em que esteve ausente da Inglaterra, casou-se com o nobre Edgar (David Niven). Certo dia, o Sr. Earnshaw retorna de viagem da cidade, trazendo consigo o pequeno órfão chamado Heathcliff. Porém, o filho de Earnshaw, Hindley, sente ciúmes do garoto, enquanto Catherine, sua filha, torna-se a paixão infantil e logo o amor de Heathcliff. As coisas mudam quando os pais dos garotos morrem, e Heathcliff começa a ser tratado como mero empregado. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.
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O mafioso "Baby Face" Martin volta para casa para visitar o bairro de Nova York onde cresceu, encontrando sua mãe, que o rejeita por causa de seu estilo de vida de gângster, e sua antiga namorada, Francey, agora uma prostituta sifilítica. Martin também cruza o caminho de Dave, um amigo de infância que luta para se tornar um arquiteto, e os Dead End Kids, uma gangue de garotos vagando pelas ruas das favelas do East Side da cidade.
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A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
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In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Wyoming, década de 1880. Lenhador Barney Glasgow despreza a amada Lotta Morgan, cantora de saloon, em favor de um casamento por interesse com Emma Louise, filha do patrão. Seu amigo Swan Bostrom une-se a Lotta. Barney enriquece derrubando árvores sem o cuidado de replantá-las. Anos mais tarde, tanto ele quanto o filho Richard apaixonam-se pela filha de Lotta e Swan, também chamada Lotta e também muito parecida com a mãe.
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O tenente Denet (Fredric March) é um oficial do exército francês que luta com todas as forças para impedir o avanço alemão durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. O que ele não sabe é que sua obsessão pela vitória o está transformando, aos olhos de seus homens, em seu pior inimigo. Além disso, ele disputa o amor de uma mulher com um capitão.
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Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary, later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.
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When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
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Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.
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A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
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Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
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An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
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Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
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A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.
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A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
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Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
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Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
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A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
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A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
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This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
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O Capitão Hugh Drummond, herói de guerra, à procura de aventuras em Londres, é contatado pela bela americana Phyllis. Ela lhe pede que liberte seu tio John Travers, preso ilegalmente em um falso asilo.
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This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
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While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
