Alec Craig
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Alexander Younger Craig Craig (30 March 1884 – 25 June 1945), was a Scottish character actor, particularly known for his roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and National Velvet (1944). He was particularly known for portraying stereotypically tight-fisted Scotsmen.
Alec Craig was born on 30 March 1884 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of James Chapman Craig and his wife Isabella,
Craig died of tuberculosis on 25 June 1945, aged 61, in Glendale, California, US. He is buried there at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.348 |
Birthday | 1884-03-30 |
Place of Birth | Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK |
Also Known As | Alexander Younger Craig, |
1943
Lassie Come Home
6.6/123
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t...
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Lassie Come Home
1943
The Spider Woman
6.88/79
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomou...
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The Spider Woman
1945
The House of Fear
6.823/93
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest...
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The House of Fear
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.5/93
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1934
The Little Minister
5.9/14
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one o...
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The Little Minister
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
6.8/20
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
Tom Brown's School Days
7.2/10
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a polic...
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Tom Brown's School Days
1943
Calling Dr. Death
6.5/32
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife...
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Calling Dr. Death
1941
Three Girls About Town
5.3/3
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...
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Three Girls About Town
1937
Wise Girl
7/6
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them...
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Wise Girl
1937
China Passage
5.5/3
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on succes...
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China Passage
1941
Shining Victory
5.9/8
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistan...
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Shining Victory
1942
Wildcat
6/1
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the o...
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Wildcat
1937
The Woman I Love
0/0
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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The Woman I Love
1937
Meet the Missus
4/1
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
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Meet the Missus
1936
Mary of Scotland
6.314/35
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Mary of Scotland
1937
The Man Who Found Himself
7/1
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it...
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The Man Who Found Himself
1938
Condemned Women
6.3/3
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
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Condemned Women
1939
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
6.5/10
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1938
Double Danger
6.5/2
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo...
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Double Danger
1937
Border Cafe
6.3/3
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny wester...
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Border Cafe
1939
Let Us Live
6.6/11
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in...
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Let Us Live
1939
They Made Her a Spy
6/2
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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They Made Her a Spy
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6/28
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.887/1018
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6/1
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. Wh...
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6/13
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1937
Hideaway
4/1
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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Hideaway
1938
Crashing Hollywood
5.8/5
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Crashing Hollywood
1937
She's Got Everything
5.3/3
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marr...
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She's Got Everything
1936
Winterset
5.4/11
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
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Winterset
1944
Gaslight
7.49/471
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Gaslight
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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The Earl of Chicago
1940
The Blue Bird
5.8/39
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha...
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The Blue Bird
1939
Bachelor Mother
7.073/55
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, D...
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Bachelor Mother
1944
The Woman in the Window
7.387/333
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Woman in the Window
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.344/323
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1942
The Night Before the Divorce
5/3
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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The Night Before the Divorce
1941
Ride on Vaquero
4.2/4
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment,...
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Ride on Vaquero
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
6/4
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1940
The Sea Hawk
7.143/122
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk
1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
5.7/11
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
Phantom Raiders
6.1/15
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...
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Phantom Raiders
1940
And One Was Beautiful
6.2/6
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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And One Was Beautiful
1942
Orchestra Wives
5.8/10
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she...
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Orchestra Wives
1936
That Girl from Paris
6.5/2
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American...
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That Girl from Paris
1941
That Hamilton Woman
7.1/76
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her ris...
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That Hamilton Woman
1942
Northwest Rangers
6/2
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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Northwest Rangers
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
6/1
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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Mystery of the Riverboat
1939
Rulers of the Sea
6.5/2
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...
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Rulers of the Sea
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
6.7/21
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whir...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
1945
National Velvet
7.3/99
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv...
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National Velvet
1942
A Date with the Falcon
6.5/16
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée,...
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A Date with the Falcon
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.4/159
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1937
Super-Sleuth
5/4
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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Super-Sleuth
1942
Wrecking Crew
5.5/2
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew i...
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Wrecking Crew
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7/51
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1938
Lord Jeff
7.1/6
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca...
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Lord Jeff
1943
Coney Island
5.3/6
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spo...
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Coney Island
1943
Jane Eyre
6.9/126
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Jane Eyre
1942
Cat People
6.904/563
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline pre...
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Cat People
1946
Three Strangers
6.3/35
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...
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Three Strangers
1938
If I Were King
6.8/9
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
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If I Were King
1942
Roxie Hart
6.9/21
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was ju...
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Roxie Hart
1941
Suspicion
7.126/776
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a f...
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Suspicion
1942
The Undying Monster
5.6/34
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon...
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The Undying Monster
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7.511/86
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1942
This Above All
6.6/17
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All
1935
The Old Homestead
0/0
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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The Old Homestead
1935
Born to Gamble
4.8/4
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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Born to Gamble
1935
Sweepstake Annie
3.7/3
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and...
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Sweepstake Annie
1944
Dangerous Passage
4.9/7
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
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Dangerous Passage
1938
Vivacious Lady
6.8/52
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
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Vivacious Lady
1945
The Brighton Strangler
5.9/10
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was...
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The Brighton Strangler
1945
Kitty
5.542/12
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci...
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Kitty
1944
Jungle Woman
4.8/16
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reve...
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Jungle Woman
1942
Tennessee Johnson
6.2/7
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...
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Tennessee Johnson
1941
Out of the Fog
6.3/28
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather...
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Out of the Fog
1942
The Mad Martindales
5/1
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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The Mad Martindales
1943
The Ghost Ship
6.2/65
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die myst...
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The Ghost Ship
1942
To Be or Not to Be
7.855/689
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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To Be or Not to Be
1940
Golden Gloves
5/2
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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Golden Gloves
1943
Northern Pursuit
5.9/17
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the...
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Northern Pursuit
1942
Mrs. Miniver
7.016/247
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...
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Mrs. Miniver
1941
All That Money Can Buy
7.1/81
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruit...
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All That Money Can Buy
1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
6.3/3
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling tra...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1943
Appointment in Berlin
6.4/4
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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