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Настырный и упрямый прокурор ведет в зале суда обвинение против клиентки его жены-защитницы. Женщину обвиняют в попытке убийства из-за того, что та, которую она хотела застрелить, встречалась с ее недобропорядочным и лживым мужем. Адвокат, защитница прав женщин, решительно настроена доказать, что точка зрения прокурора отражает сексистские двойные стандарты и что мужа обвиняемой за подобные действия даже и не судили бы. Это возмущает консервативного прокурора. В течение процесса брак блюстителей закона трещит по швам, а судебные препирательства продолжаются и дома…
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A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and size measuring terms and protocols, race track gambling lingo, harness racing lingo and training techniques, Lipizzan stallions, and non-horse terminology using horse words. In-between the questions, other horse facts are presented and shown, including hapless novice equestrian Horace trying to saddle, mount and ride a horse.
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When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
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A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.
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A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
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Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
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A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
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David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
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We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
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Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
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Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
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Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Миссис Фэй Чейни - богатая американская вдова - прибывает в Лондон и быстро входит в высшее общество. Она становится объектом ухаживания немолодого уже лорда Келтона и молодого плейбоя лорда Артура Диллинга. Сама миссис Чейни склонна отдать предпочтение лорду Келтону. Однажды во время великосветского приёма в доме герцогини Эбби Артур Диллинг обнаруживает в саду дворецкого миссис Чейни, Чарльза, в котором он узнаёт некоторое время назад задержанного в Монте-Карло известного вора, специализирующегося на краже драгоценностей. Артур начинает догадываться об истинных причинах появления Фэй в доме герцогини, которая известна как обладательница знаменитого жемчужного ожерелья.
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A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.
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A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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Бил Чандлер один из самых мастеровитых рыболовов Америки, по технике ему нет равных, любая форель попадется к нему на удочку. Но Чандлер рассказывает нам не только рыболовную историю.
Все начинается, когда светская дива предъявляет репортеру Трейси иск по делу о клевете. Трейси привлекает невесту Харлоу и неудачливого Пауела к встречному маневру, включающему в себя фальсифицированную свадьбу, подстроенное насилие, необычайно смешную сцену на рыбалке, драку, обманутые обещания и разбитые сердца, и, конечно же, настоящую любовь.
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Американская актриса Сюзи приезжает в Лондон. Здесь она выходит замуж за ирландского изобретателя Терри…
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Действие происходит в Камбодже после Первой мировой войны. Злой граф Мазовия овладел тайными знаниями, позволяющими лишать людей воли и превращать их в зомби, и собирается создать расу рабовладельцев. К руинам Ангкор-Вата отправляется научная экспедиция, цель которой - открыть секрет зомбификации и положить конец деятельности Мазовии. Но у одного из участников экспедиции есть свои планы...
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A man preparing to shoot his ailing elderly dog sadly recounts their time together.
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A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
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Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry Winston; and how it was cut by Lazarre Kaplan.
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A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.
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In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
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Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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Американский фильм «Крепкий парень» был основан на идее, что в каждом человеке есть что-то хорошее — просто нужно разбудить это — даже в гангстере, который хладнокровно стреляет в полицейского после ограбления банка. Находясь в бегах, он был вынужден похитить мальчика, который стремится домой из-за любви к собаке.
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Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
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В XIX-м веке в южной части Тихого океана существовал обычай, когда островитяне делали набег на соседний остров, для того чтобы найти пригодных для замужества женщин. Во время одного из подобных набегов Таро увидел прекрасную Лиллео и спросил у вождя племени разрешения взять её. Пока Таро и другие мужчины наблюдали за женщинами, плавающими в пруду, местные аборигены, вооруженные копьями, напали на них и принудили к бегству. Таро, однако, задержался, и после непродолжительной борьбы с Лиллео, которая не хотела идти за ним, ему всё же удаётся забрать её на свой остров. По прибытии Таро представляет Лиллео своей матери и своему племени. Позже, после их свадьбы, Лиллео и Таро оказываются в руках белых работорговцев…
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Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
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Вашингтон, 1917 год. Лейтенант Уильям Гордон полон решимости отправиться на фронт во Францию, где вовсю грохочет Первая мировая война, но былое увлечение кодами и случайное знакомство с эмансипированной племянницей военного чиновника резко меняют судьбу офицера, и он оказывается в центре вражеской шпионской сети.
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This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.
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Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
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Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.
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An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.
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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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A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
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Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
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Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Constantinople to secure the proof. En route, she becomes involved with Douglas Beall, a footloose American. Complications ensue, requiring Annemarie to engage in some dangerous improvisations.
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Шпионка на службе у северян, Гэйл Лавлэсс, влюбляется в офицера армии Конфедерации. Сможет ли их любовь преодолеть разногласия целой страны, охваченной Гражданской войной, или же им не суждено быть вместе?
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В канун рождества убита секретарша богатого изобретателя Ваната. Все подозрения падают на него потому, что полиция не может найти профессора в городе. Девушка по имени Дороти Винант приходит в дом к сыщику Нику Чарльзу, человеку, который уже четвертый год отошел от дел. Дороти рассказывает, что это она убила секретаршу, но детектив не верит ей. Он понимает, что девушка пробует взять всю вину на себя. Решив помочь несчастной, он, бросив все дела, начинает раскручивать очень запутанный клубок фактов и обстоятельств.
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История простой девушки, дочери кухарки в богатом доме. Сын хозяина влюблен в нее, но ее сердце принадлежит парню, у которого еще ветер в голове. Защищая его, она портит отношения со всеми, даже со своей семьей. Вместе они убегают в большой город в поисках счастья, но парня снова подхватывает ветер соблазна, в образе второсортной певицы, и он убегает с ней на гастроли прямо в день свадьбы. Отчаявшись она не раздумывая выходит замуж за богатого человека. Казалось бы, все в жизни есть, богатый дом, положение в обществе, но сердцу не прикажешь, и она снова бросает все и разыскивает своего любимого, но вернуть все назад уже поздно…
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Эдвард Гэллахер и Джим Уэй дружили с детства. Вступив во взрослую жизнь, каждый пошёл своей дорогой. Гэллахер становится бандитом и вымогателем, а Уэйд, заняв пост окружного прокурора, мечтает о губернаторской должности. Уэйд благодаря Гэллахеру её получает, но какую цену друзья должны за это заплатить.
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A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.
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A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
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A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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Когда Стэн и Олли, собираясь на конференцию, говорят своим женам о том, что собираются совершить лечебное путешествие, у них появляется шанс по достоинству оценить все прелести лжи и правды в семейных отношениях.
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Оливер Джордан неделю планировала ужин в честь лорда и леди Фернклифф. Она наняла оркестр и дополнительную прислугу, постаралась, чтобы даже гарниры не остались незамеченными. Чего м-с Джордан не знает, так это что ее модному ужину предстоит запомниться как катастрофе.
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A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter. Director Harry Beaumont's pre-code comedy stars Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Godfrey Tearle, Mary Carlisle, William Janney, Katharine Alexander and Halliwell Hobbes.
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A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
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In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
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Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
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Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
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Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Действие происходит во время Первой Мировой войны. Диана попала в любовный треугольник между британским морским офицером Клодом и американским летчиком-истребителем Богардом. Диана считает, что она должна любить Клода, друга своего брата Рони, тоже морского офицера, поскольку они еще детьми пообещали держаться друг друга, но сердце не слушает разум и рвется навстречу истинной любви к чужаку, хотя она всеми силами пытается скрыть это даже от себя…
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A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
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A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Британский археолог сэр Лайонел Бартон намерен отправиться в Монголию, чтобы найти гробницу Чингизхана. Разведчик Нейланд Смит предупреждает его, что он должен добраться до сокровищ гробницы раньше, чем злодей Фу Манчу, которому меч и посмертная маска Чингизхана нужны для того, чтобы поднять восточные народы на борьбу с западной цивилизацией и уничтожить её.
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This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.
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Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
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New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
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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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Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
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A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives.
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Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.
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В картине Джорджа Фицмориса великая Гарбо играет роковую женщину, внезапно без памяти влюбившуюся в русского офицера, забывшую о своих шпионских обязанностях и погибшую из-за своих чувств. Влюбленная Гарбо - что могло быть притягательнее для зрителя. MGM использовало этот рецепт успеха снова и снова. В качестве её возлюбленного, русского офицера Розанова, выступил Рамон Новарро, единственный актёр того времени, который мог сравниться с ней в красоте. Обидно, что этот блестящий дуэт ни разу более не повторялся на экране. Они продемонстрировали редкую гармонию, особенно в финальной сцене перед казнью.
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Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
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This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.
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Мать Хельги умерла при родах, поэтому девочка выросла в доме ее дальних родственников, где её никто не любил. Однажды ее поставили перед фактом, что скоро она выйдет замуж за выбранного родней жениха. Хельга, обдумав свое будущее, сбегает из дома и благодаря судьбе случайно встречает молодого инженера Родни Спенсера.Молодые и красивые, они мгновенно влюбляются друг в друга, и понимают, что созданы друг для друга, но вскоре Родни, нужно уехать по делам. Как только машина любимого скрылась за поворотом, на пороге его дома появились родственники Хельги. Девушку насильно возвращают домой, однако, вкусив свободной жизни, Хельга вновь убегает, и примыкает к бродячему цирку, где становится актрисой под псевдонимом Сюзанна Ленокс...
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This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.
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A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
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Двадцативосьмилетний аристократ Гарри сообщает своему дедушке, что собирается жениться на актрисе. Он ждет упреков, но вместо этого дед рассказывает внуку, как сам 50 лет назад влюбился в итальянскую певицу Риту Кавалини…
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In this MGM Dogville series short, an all-dog cast play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted.
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During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
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The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
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On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own.
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In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
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On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
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One dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
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Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
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A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left and moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).
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Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring her up as a 'proper' Christian, but who also lusts after her himself, plots to keep them apart.
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Элмер очень беден и работает в химчистке. Он безумно любит звезду сцены Трилби Дрю. На каждое ее выступление он надевает чужой смокинг и мчится в театр. Когда партнер Трилби по спектаклю обручается, она в отместку выходит замуж за Элмера, предполагая, что Элмер — миллионер. Но она ясно все еще любит своего партнера...
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California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
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Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.
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Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors, including neighbor Lige Hightower, leave Letty increasingly disturbed, resulting in tragedy.
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Две подруги Диана и Анита знакомятся на вечеринке с миллионером Беном Блэйном. Диана полна идеализированных взглядов на жизнь, и относится к своему новому знакомству как к естественному ходу вещей в Природе. Анита, напротив, хладнокровна и расчетлива – ей нужен богатый муж, и она используют весь необходимый арсенал притворства для того, чтобы выйти замуж за Блейна. Но вскоре колдовство спадает с глаз Блейна, и он понимает, что вместо любящей его женщины он выбрал лживую имитацию…
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Не единственная, но наиболее известная, экранизация одноименного романа Виктора Гюго. Гуинплен обезображен в детстве по приказу короля. Его усыновляет бродячий артист Урсус. Благодаря своему уродству, мальчик становится очень популярен. За страшным обликом Гуинплена скрывается чуткая, самоотверженная и любящая душа. Он влюбляется в слепую девушку Дею. Король умирает, а его злобный шут начинает строить козни Гуинплену.
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A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Анна замужем за русским дворянином Алексеем Карениным. Она влюбляется в молодого офицера Вронского, бросает мужа и уходит к любовнику, за что Каренин лишает её прав на ребенка…
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Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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Молодой повеса, фаворит Людовика Справедливого Барделис Великолепный заключает пари о том, что завоюет любовь самой неприступной девушки Франции. Приключения приводят его на юг Франции, где беспрерывно шли мятежи против центральной власти и короля.
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If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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«Бен-Гур» — рассказ о богатом юноше еврее, который в результате случайности был обвинен в покушении на римского наместника и попадает в рабство, а его сестру и мать забирают в тюрьму. По пути на галеры, он сталкивается с Иисусом Христом, сыном плотника, который подаст воду страждущему. Когда судно потопили пираты, Бен-Гур спасает римского центуриона от гибели, и тот в благодарность усыновляет его…
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Фильм рассказывает о судьбе трех американских солдат, воевавших в Европе. Все трое были представителями разных социальных классов — рабочий, мелкий торговец и сынок богатых родителей. Война стерла классовые перегородки и сблизила молодых людей. Двое погибли на фронте. Третий же, потеряв ногу, вернулся домой. Он разочарованный в своих ожиданиях и надеждах, уезжает обратно в Европу, где узнает крепкую мужскую дружбу и испытывает настоящую любовь.
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Учёный, множество лет посвятивший обоснованию теории происхождения человечества, в результате предательства своего друга и любимой жены становится клоуном, выступление которого заключается в бесконечных издевательствах над ним самим. Однако, смеётся тот, кто смеётся последним…
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История супругов, которые выигрывают 5000 долларов в лотерее, после чего в них пробуждается алчность…
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Робкий, нерасторопный миллионер оказывается в открытом море, на корабле, покинутом командой. По странной случайности на корабль попала также любимая миллионера, сердца и руки которой он уже давно и безуспешно добивается.
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A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
