Purnell Pratt
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Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.584 |
| Birthday | 1885-10-19 |
| Place of Birth | Bethel, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Purnell B. Pratt, |
1932
Scarface
7.453/600
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...
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Scarface
1937
Under Suspicion
0/0
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally,...
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Under Suspicion
1933
A Shriek in the Night
5/14
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell fro...
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A Shriek in the Night
1939
My Wife's Relatives
0/0
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romanc...
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My Wife's Relatives
1932
Grand Hotel
6.945/308
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Grand Hotel
1934
Name the Woman
0/0
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
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Name the Woman
1929
Alibi
5.947/19
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls...
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Alibi
1941
Doctors Don't Tell
4.9/8
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethi...
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Doctors Don't Tell
1931
Five Star Final
6.554/37
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman in...
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Five Star Final
1929
The Locked Door
5.769/13
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines...
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The Locked Door
1932
The Unwritten Law
0/0
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electr...
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The Unwritten Law
1929
The Trespasser
6.667/12
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...
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The Trespasser
1935
The Winning Ticket
3.5/2
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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The Winning Ticket
1931
Bachelor Apartment
6.2/6
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
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Bachelor Apartment
1935
The Casino Murder Case
6.5/10
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...
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The Casino Murder Case
1935
A Night at the Opera
7.445/484
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...
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A Night at the Opera
1930
The Furies
0/0
Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow, her husband's lawyer. At a dinner party given by...
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The Furies
1932
Emma
6.5/12
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition....
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Emma
1935
Behind the Green Lights
0/0
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
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Behind the Green Lights
1931
Dance, Fools, Dance
6.4/19
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
1938
Come On, Rangers
6/1
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.
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Come On, Rangers
1932
The Roadhouse Murder
3.3/3
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
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The Roadhouse Murder
1933
The Mystery Squadron
0/0
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Sq...
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The Mystery Squadron
1931
The Public Defender
6/4
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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The Public Defender
1933
Pick-up
4.8/4
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh...
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Pick-up
1935
Ladies Crave Excitement
4.5/2
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
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Ladies Crave Excitement
1930
Road to Paradise
6.25/8
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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Road to Paradise
1934
Midnight Alibi
6/2
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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Midnight Alibi
1936
Murder with Pictures
5.1/7
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for t...
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Murder with Pictures
1929
Painted Faces
4.8/4
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavia...
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Painted Faces
1937
Night of Mystery
0/0
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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Night of Mystery
1934
The Witching Hour
5.3/3
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes...
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The Witching Hour
1931
The Gay Diplomat
4/5
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one qu...
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The Gay Diplomat
1936
The Return of Sophie Lang
6/1
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a jo...
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The Return of Sophie Lang
1934
Crimson Romance
6/1
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob...
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Crimson Romance
1930
Common Clay
0/0
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves he...
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Common Clay
1931
Traveling Husbands
4/2
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
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Traveling Husbands
1940
Grand Ole Opry
7/1
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
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Grand Ole Opry
1931
Up for Murder
3.5/2
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
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Up for Murder
1933
The Chief
3/1
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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The Chief
1937
Murder Goes to College
3/1
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with...
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Murder Goes to College
1932
False Faces
4.3/3
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicag...
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False Faces
1934
The Hell Cat
6/1
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulte...
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The Hell Cat
1935
Death Flies East
5/1
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inma...
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Death Flies East
1931
The Spider
6/2
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occur...
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The Spider
1931
Ladies of the Big House
6/1
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
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Ladies of the Big House
1936
Wedding Present
6.5/13
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great...
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Wedding Present
1930
Paid
6.8/13
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conv...
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Paid
1937
High, Wide and Handsome
6/2
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when the...
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High, Wide and Handsome
1932
Red Haired Alibi
4.4/8
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Red Haired Alibi
1941
Pot o' Gold
5.5/22
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family...
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Pot o' Gold
1936
The Plainsman
6.2/31
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Plainsman
1934
The Bands Plays On
8.5/2
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
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The Bands Plays On
1934
Lazy River
7/1
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Lazy River
1930
Lawful Larceny
5.667/3
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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Lawful Larceny
1935
Rendezvous at Midnight
0/0
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who...
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Rendezvous at Midnight
1936
Dancing Feet
5.2/4
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfath...
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Dancing Feet
1931
The Secret Witness
3/2
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor belie...
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The Secret Witness
1930
The Gorilla
0/0
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
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The Gorilla
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
6/4
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
1929
On With the Show!
5/3
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l...
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On With the Show!
1931
The Prodigal
3/2
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
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The Prodigal
1933
Midshipman Jack
6/1
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Midshipman Jack
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
2.5/2
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...
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Hollywood Boulevard
1933
Son of a Sailor
5/1
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Son of a Sailor
1935
Red Salute
5.8/6
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...
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Red Salute
1935
$1,000 a Minute
5.5/11
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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$1,000 a Minute
1933
I Cover the Waterfront
5.1/13
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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I Cover the Waterfront
1937
King of Gamblers
7/1
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...
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King of Gamblers
1935
Waterfront Lady
5.5/2
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers...
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Waterfront Lady
1935
It's in the Air
5/2
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, bu...
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It's in the Air
1931
Beyond Victory
0/0
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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Beyond Victory
1937
Rosalie
5.5/6
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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Rosalie
1932
Skyscraper Souls
5.6/11
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despit...
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Skyscraper Souls
1929
Fast Life
0/0
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of t...
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Fast Life
1929
Is Everybody Happy?
0/0
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St....
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Is Everybody Happy?
1935
Diamond Jim
6/1
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Diamond Jim
1930
The Silver Horde
5.3/14
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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The Silver Horde
1926
Midnight Lovers
6/1
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not...
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Midnight Lovers
1933
Headline Shooter
5.8/4
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Headline Shooter
1937
Join the Marines
3/1
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the tea...
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Join the Marines
1935
A Night at the Opera
7.445/484
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...
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A Night at the Opera
1936
Lady Be Careful
4.5/2
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The...
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Lady Be Careful
1935
Frisco Waterfront
0/0
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponen...
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Frisco Waterfront
1934
A Wicked Woman
5/3
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...
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A Wicked Woman
1917
Seven Keys to Baldpate
4.4/8
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his B...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1935
Magnificent Obsession
7.361/18
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Magnificent Obsession
1936
Wives Never Know
0/0
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital a...
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Wives Never Know
1931
The Public Enemy
7.248/341
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...
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The Public Enemy
1933
The Billion Dollar Scandal
0/0
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
1941
Ringside Maisie
7/3
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxi...
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Ringside Maisie
1930
Sinners' Holiday
5.8/9
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-u...
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Sinners' Holiday
1925
The Lady Who Lied
0/0
During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is dera...
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The Lady Who Lied
1934
School for Girls
6/1
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However,...
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School for Girls
1936
Let's Make a Million
0/0
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Let's Make a Million
1930
Puttin' on the Ritz
5.2/4
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
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Puttin' on the Ritz
1936
Straight from the Shoulder
4.5/2
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
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Straight from the Shoulder
1939
Colorado Sunset
0/0
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy b...
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Colorado Sunset
1933
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
4.5/2
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such divers...
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