Self (archival footage)
This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot, and the eventual reception of the film.
Presents testimony from Patricia King Hanson and Richard Schickel and archival input from cinematographer John Alton.
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Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.
Self - Cinematographer (archive footage)
The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
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One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
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Берт Ланкастер играет мрачного, внешне лишенного эмоций заключенного Роберта Страуда, приговоренного к пожизненному тюремному заключению. Он выхаживает больную птицу, как-то залетевшую к нему в камеру, и через много лет становится всемирно признанным орнитологом. Страуд продолжает свои исследования даже после того, как его переводят в Алькатрас, тюрьму, известную как "Скала" в заливе Сан-Франциско, где содержатся самые неисправимые и опасные преступники. После неудачного романа со Стеллой Джонсон, тюремного бунта, Страуд смог рассказать свою необычную историю журналисту и писателю Тому Гэддису, который поведал ее миру.
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Коммивояжер Элмер Гантри совершенно случайно попадает на собрание верующих людей и понимает, что на религии можно очень хорошо заработать. Он перевоплощается в евангелиста и объединяется с сестрой Шэрон Фальконер, проповедуя вместе с ней в церквях…
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A group of twelve international scientists are the first to land on the moon. In their exploration of the surface, they run into all kinds of trouble, including threatening messages from alien life forms residing on the moon. Just a short nine years before the historic moon landing, this film's understanding of the science of space exploration is fantastically simplistic, but this well-made science fiction film holds interest with a strong cast and intriguingly strange events, photographed with great style by John Alton. Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, John Wengraf, and Robert Montgomery Jr. portray the intrepid scientists.
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Страстно мечтающий стать журналистом молодой человек Адам Уайт соглашается вести в газете колонку советов под псевдонимом "Мисс Лонлихартс". Адам считает, что эта колонка - лишь первый шаг к карьере настоящего журналиста. Поначалу Адам снисходительно относится к своей рубрике, но когда в редакцию начинают приходить сотни искренних писем, полных боли и страданий, он меняет свое отношение к работе. По настоянию циничного редактора Шрайка Адам встречается с одной из корреспонденток, но всё оказывается не так просто.
По повести Натанаэла Уэста "Подруга скорбящих"
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Россия, 1870. Напряженность в семействе Карамазовых. Американский вариант прочтения Достоевского.
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Полковник Пурди крут и прямолинеен - жители оккупированной окинавской деревушки в Японии должны признать демократию американского образца. "Иначе я их всех перестреляю" - безаппеляционно заявляет он. Ответственным за проведение этого приказа в жизнь назначен капитан Фисби. Но придурковатый и рассеянный симпатяга Фисби сразу же попадает под тонкое, поначалу слабо ощутимое, но всепроникающее обаяние Востока. Он сам не замечает, как хитрющий проныра-переводчик навязывает ему свои правила игры. А когда его начинает опекать чувственная и обольстительная гейша с волшебным именем Цветущий Лотос, когда он растворяется в неге и безделье - всем начинает казаться, что пропал мужик...
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Спортивный обозреватель женится на модельерше. Уже скоро они обнаруживают, что их общие интересы немногочисленны, хотя у каждого есть интригующие секреты, которые они тщательно скрывают…
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Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
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Мечтавшим пожениться Ральфу и Джейн выпадает счастливый случай. Они смогут в ближайшие дни отправиться в свадебное путешествие, если успеют обвенчаться без лишней шумихи и пышной церемонии. Молодые и не подозревали, что желание обойтись скромным свадебным завтраком вызовет массу проблем.
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Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
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A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
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Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
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A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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Полицейский Леонард Даймонд безуспешно старается доказать вину неуловимого мистера Брауна, главаря банды, занимающейся крупным отмывом денег, но против Брауна нет никаких доказательств.
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Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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XIX век, Дикий Запад. Молодая привлекательная девушка Сьерра-Невада Джонс и её отец перегоняют стадо из Техаса в свои новые владения в штате Монтана. Об этом они мечтали очень долго и сейчас наслаждаются спокойствием и красотой новых мест. Внезапно они подвергаются нападению разбойника-индейца Начакоа и его людей из племени черноногих.
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In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters. Overjoyed, he plans to formalize his "unofficial" marriage. But trouble brews; Melo's land is of unclear title and the new Don Domingo hopes to grab it for his own profit. Violence results. Without even knowing who survived, Juan (accompanied by Rosa's tomboy sister Tonya) rides for revenge, through spectacular pastoral and wilderness scenery.
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Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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Окружающие начинают сомневаться в душевном здоровье женщины, утверждающей, что, выглянув из окна своей квартиры, она стала свидетельницей убийства.
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San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
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Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
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Майк Хаммер Микки Спиллейна в своем первом киноприключении. Первоначально показан в 3D.
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A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
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Во время корейской войны молодая медсестра прибывает на фронт в небольшой полевой госпиталь. Рут страстно влюбляется в хирурга, майора Джеда. История их любви разворачивается прямо посреди военных действий, на линии фронта. Джед колеблется, но Рут с головой окунается в свои чувства, несмотря на все трудности военного времени. Атаки врагов, сложные погодные условия, многочисленные жертвы — кажется, не до романтики, но любовь живет вопреки всем трудностям и обстоятельствам.
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An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
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A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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Бывший солдат Джерри пытается стать художником в послевоенном Париже. И имеет некоторый успех, найдя богатую покровительницу, которая покупает его картины и рекомендует их своим друзьям.
Однажды он заходит в ночной клуб и знакомится с Лизой и молодые люди моментально влюбляются. Но позже она неожиданно сообщает, что помолвлена с его другом. И Джерри, и Лиза поступают благородно, решив более не встречаться.
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A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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Фильм рассказывает, что же происходит в семье адвоката Стэнли Т. Бэнкса недавно выдавшего замуж дочурку Кей. На этот раз Бэнкс, еще не до конца смирившийся с изменением статуса дочери, узнает новую шокирующую новость — он вот-вот станет дедушкой. В отличие от окружающих, Стэнли не склонен считать это событие радостным, но приходится смириться и находить нечто хорошее в нарушении отлаженного, комфортного образа жизни. Дальнейшие события предсказать нетрудно, но очень уж они трогательно поданы.
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Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
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Лэнс Пул – индеец, который получил Медаль Почёта за боевые заслуги во время битвы при Геттисберге, - после войны возвращается в своё племя с намерением заняться разведением скота. Но мирную жизнь ветерана нарушают белые фермеры-овцеводы, которые хотят захватить богатые сочной травой земли Лэнса, настраивая якобы цивилизованное белое население против племени. Никто не мог предвидеть, к каким трагическим последствиям это приведёт...
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На пляже обнаружен скелет. Дело поручено лейтенанту Мораласу, который вынужден обратиться за помощью к криминальным медэкспертам Гарварда. Из фильма можно почерпнуть статистику исчезновений и краж в Америке на тот момент.
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Классическая комедия о выживании преданного отца с того момента, когда дочь объявляет о своей помолвке до того, пока последний гость покинет свадебный банкет. Адвокат Стэнли Бэнкс оказывается неподготовленным, когда его дочь Кэй объявляет о своей помолвке с Бакли Данстэном, в то время как жена Элли и сын Томми с энтузиазмом воспринимают новость. Для Стэнли обретение «сына» не повод терять дочку, которая выросла и живет своей жизнью. Может быть, все уладится, если Стэнли примет Бакли и переживет свадьбу.
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The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
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The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
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Франция, 1794 год. Максимильен Робеспьер - маньяк, известный всей Европе - занят своим любимым делом: массовыми репрессиями и расправой с политическими противниками. С подобным положением вещей не согласны "честные граждане" Баррас, Тальен, а также Фуше (чья честность находится под сомнением), однако им никак не удается свергнуть будущего диктатора в одиночку. С печалью обозревая деятельность Робеспьера из политической ссылки, генерал Лафайет, чуткий и сознательный патриот, высылает на спасение Франции, демократии и свободы единственного человека, способного это осуществить, - Шарля д'Обиньи, который напускает на себя личину безжалостного обвинителя из Страсбурга. Доставленный в тайную штаб-квартиру Робеспьера - булочную, Шарль получает задание: найти и вернуть "черный список" тех, кого собирается казнить будущий диктатор Франции.
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Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
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A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
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Сюжет представляет прямолинейный рассказ, снятый в полудокументальной манере, о психопате и гениальном убийце, которого пытаются поймать полицейские детективы.
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
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Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
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Подлый напарник Рик подставил гангстера Джо Салливана и упек его в тюрьму. Позже он устроил Джо побег в полной уверенности, что того пристрелят или поймают и посадят уже навсегда. Но Джо везет - он оказывается на свободе, к тому же в компании с двумя красавицами - ловкой подругой Пэт и взятой им в заложницы адвокатом Энн. Теперь Джо предстоит не только расквитаться с подлецом Риком, но и решить важную проблему - с кем из женщин ему следует остаться.
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Агенты казначейства США О’Брайен и Дженаро проникают в банду фальшивомонетчиков, которой удалось добиться очень высокого качества своих подделок. Фильм основан на нескольких реальных делах, которые вели агенты казначейства.
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A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
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An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
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Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
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Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
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Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes to the act, to reflect his own ego, causes the quartet to get fired. Later, all make good in other areas of show business...stage, radio and motion pictures.
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When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
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A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
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This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.
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A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
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On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
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In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
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As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
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Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
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A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.
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A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
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Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that.
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The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).
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A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
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Джон Филлипс начинает убеждать жителей небольшого городка Северной Дакоты в необходимости переезда в Орегон, где находятся лучшие пастбища для скота. Тем временем в городке появляются бежавшие от нацистского режима австрийский врач Браун и его дочь Лени, в которую сразу же влюбляется Филлипс.
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A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.
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Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
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Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.
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A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.
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A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
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Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.
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Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a dancer and singer with whom he was entangled, chases him, he uses Perez to get rid of her.
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A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
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Cinematography
The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based on the novel by José Mármol.
Director of Photography
A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.
Cinematography
The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.
Cinematography
A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never released.
Cinematography
A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her.
Director of Photography
The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Lara elopes, leaving his wife on board, and walks around the city at night, coming to meet a beautiful yet frivolous hooker, Isa.
Cinematography
Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it. The result was catastrophic and all copies of the film were destroyed, therefore it is considered to be totally lost.
Writer
Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it. The result was catastrophic and all copies of the film were destroyed, therefore it is considered to be totally lost.
Director
Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it. The result was catastrophic and all copies of the film were destroyed, therefore it is considered to be totally lost.
Cinematography
The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
