Harry Shannon
Born and raised on a farm in Michigan in 1890, Irish-American character actor Harry Shannon had the credentials for becoming a staple player in westerns. He started off his career traveling around with repertory and stock companies and developed his musical abilities in tent shows, burlesque houses and such tuneful Broadway shows as "Oh, Kay!" (1926), "Hold Everything" (1928), "Simple Simon" (1931), and "Pardon My English" (1933). A company member of Joseph Schildkraut's Hollywood Theater Guild, Shannon broke into films at the advent of sound and started things off in comedy film shorts opposite such celebrated players as Bert Lahr, Shemp Howard, and Leon Errol. In the 1940s Shannon established himself in feature-length movies and although he remained a minor, second-string player, he proved himself a durable presence in westerns usually remaining on the good side of the law as sheriffs and bucolic dads. In lighthearted entertainment he could be found as a friendly Irish cop or bartender. He made a slight but memorable impression as Kane's alcoholic father in the classic Citizen Kane (1941), while his last role would be as the grandfather in the musical Gypsy (1962). In between were small parts in such notable films as The Fighting Sullivans (1944), The Jolson Story (1946), High Noon (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Buccaneer (1958). 1950s TV westerns such as Cheyenne (1955), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), and Gunsmoke (1955) made consistent use of his rustic demeanor. Shannon died in 1964 at age 74.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.99 |
| Birthday | 1890-06-12 |
| Place of Birth | Saginaw, Michigan, USA |
| Also Known As |
1941
Citizen Kane
8.008/5493
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1952
High Noon
7.672/1412
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train....
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High Noon
1958
Touch of Evil
7.8/1418
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along...
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Touch of Evil
1948
My Girl Tisa
0/0
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My Girl Tisa
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
7.4/648
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Lady from Shanghai
1950
Where Danger Lives
6.3/48
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to...
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Where Danger Lives
1947
The Red House
6.2/67
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The Red House
1951
The Lemon Drop Kid
6.9/24
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
6.1/27
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7/177
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1947
Nora Prentiss
5.9/18
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Nora Prentiss
1953
Cry of the Hunted
5.8/9
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Cry of the Hunted
1946
Night Editor
5.5/21
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Night Editor
1934
A Peach of a Pair
0/0
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
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A Peach of a Pair
1950
The Underworld Story
6.1/26
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The Underworld Story
1945
Crime, Inc.
4.2/4
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Crime, Inc.
1951
The Scarf
5.5/12
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The Scarf
1947
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
6.5/21
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1957
The Lonely Man
6/15
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The Lonely Man
1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
6.4/17
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The Jackie Robinson Story
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
6.9/36
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1954
Witness to Murder
6.2/67
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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Witness to Murder
1940
City of Chance
5.2/7
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City of Chance
1942
This Gun for Hire
6.94/168
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...
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This Gun for Hire
1950
Hunt the Man Down
6.2/17
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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Hunt the Man Down
1947
The Invisible Wall
5.4/7
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was suppos...
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The Invisible Wall
1962
Gypsy
6.3/68
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention t...
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1953
Kansas Pacific
4.8/20
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Kansas Pacific
1956
Written on the Wind
6.9/223
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business...
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Written on the Wind
1949
Mr. Soft Touch
6.8/11
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's...
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Mr. Soft Touch
1946
The Last Crooked Mile
4.7/9
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The Last Crooked Mile
1959
Yellowstone Kelly
6.1/19
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Yellowstone Kelly
1946
San Quentin
6.3/9
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
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San Quentin
1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
5.7/9
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The Saint In Palm Springs
1958
Man or Gun
2.5/2
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Man or Gun
1952
Flesh and Fury
6.125/8
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the...
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Flesh and Fury
1949
Tulsa
6.275/20
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla...
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Tulsa
1947
Exposed
5.8/4
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Exposed
1955
At Gunpoint
6.3/12
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
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At Gunpoint
1949
Mary Ryan, Detective
5.2/3
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Mary Ryan, Detective
1933
20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang
7/2
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1937
Alibi Mark
0/0
When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
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Alibi Mark
1944
When the Lights Go On Again
5.5/2
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
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When the Lights Go On Again
1944
The Yellow Rose of Texas
5.5/8
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The Yellow Rose of Texas
1943
Song of Texas
5/2
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his bud...
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Song of Texas
1950
Singing Guns
5.8/8
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Singing Guns
1957
Hell's Crossroads
5.3/6
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Hell's Crossroads
1934
Smoked Hams
0/0
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
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Smoked Hams
1943
Idaho
5.7/3
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Idaho
1957
Duel at Apache Wells
4/2
A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.
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Duel at Apache Wells
1955
The Marauders
5.5/2
A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
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The Marauders
1950
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
6.3/3
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1940
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
5.5/2
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1954
Rails Into Laramie
6.3/10
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Rails Into Laramie
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6/5
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1953
Jack Slade
6.4/5
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
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Jack Slade
1950
The Flying Missile
5.4/5
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Flying Missile
1943
True to Life
6/1
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins t...
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True to Life
1952
Lure of the Wilderness
6/11
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates t...
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Lure of the Wilderness
1955
The Violent Men
6.372/47
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and...
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The Violent Men
1956
Come Next Spring
6/6
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-o...
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Come Next Spring
1951
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
5/3
Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1950
Three Little Words
5.9/12
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets compose...
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Three Little Words
1961
Wild in the Country
6.3/30
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
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Wild in the Country
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
0/0
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who...
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1947
Time Out of Mind
5/5
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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Time Out of Mind
1948
Fighting Father Dunne
6/1
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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Fighting Father Dunne
1930
Heads Up
0/0
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting...
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Heads Up
1943
The Powers Girl
6.5/4
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photog...
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The Powers Girl
1961
Summer and Smoke
6.7/25
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Summer and Smoke
1947
Dangerous Years
6.4/5
Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. Th...
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Dangerous Years
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.1/45
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
1943
Alaska Highway
5/2
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two...
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Alaska Highway
1940
Sailor's Lady
4/1
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci...
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Sailor's Lady
1939
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
5.8/4
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishw...
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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
1946
I Ring Doorbells
0/0
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown...
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I Ring Doorbells
1936
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
5/1
Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s wor...
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Shake, Mr. Shakespeare
1954
Phantom Stallion
0/0
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inher...
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Phantom Stallion
1948
Big Town Scandal
5/6
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Big Town Scandal
1968
The Mummy's Ghost
0/0
Nine minutes extracted from The Mummy's Ghost (1944) for the pre-VCR 16mm home movie market.
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The Mummy's Ghost
1940
Parole Fixer
0/0
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...
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Parole Fixer
1984
The World of Tomorrow
1/1
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fai...
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The World of Tomorrow
1940
Young Tom Edison
5.6/8
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
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Young Tom Edison
1941
Hold Back the Dawn
6.6/41
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...
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Hold Back the Dawn
1948
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
6.5/2
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1950
The Gunfighter
7.2/181
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Gunfighter
1949
Rustlers
5.3/3
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher F...
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Rustlers
1942
In Old California
5/31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi...
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In Old California
1940
Too Many Girls
5.7/11
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The col...
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Too Many Girls
1949
Champion
6.624/89
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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Champion
1933
Wrongorilla
0/0
Jack Haley joins the circus.
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Wrongorilla
1943
Someone to Remember
7/1
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students,...
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Someone to Remember
1950
Cow Town
4/1
Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range.
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Cow Town
1933
Take a Chance
4/1
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The...
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Take a Chance
1929
Sympathy
1/1
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
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Sympathy
1933
Close Relations
0/0
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Close Relations
1929
Faint Heart
0/0
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan...
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Faint Heart
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
5.8/71
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...
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The Mummy's Ghost
1955
The Tall Men
6.341/69
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers,...
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The Tall Men
1956
The Peacemaker
3.7/3
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranc...
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The Peacemaker
1940
Gambling on the High Seas
4.7/3
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Gambling on the High Seas
1934
No More West
0/0
Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who pr...
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No More West
1940
Tear Gas Squad
4.8/6
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Tear Gas Squad
1940
One Crowded Night
4/1
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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One Crowded Night
1943
In Old Oklahoma
6.3/37
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Ca...
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In Old Oklahoma
1943
Headin' for God's Country
0/0
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger...
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Headin' for God's Country
1942
The Falcon Takes Over
6/25
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...
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The Falcon Takes Over
1951
Blue Blood
0/0
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
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Blue Blood
1945
Captain Eddie
6/2
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the earl...
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Captain Eddie
1942
The Lady Is Willing
6.5/7
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...
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The Lady Is Willing
1950
The Sound of Fury
6.478/45
A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
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The Sound of Fury
1953
Roar of the Crowd
0/0
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give...
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Roar of the Crowd
1950
Tarnished
5.8/2
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of L...
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Tarnished
1954
Executive Suite
7/51
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Executive Suite
1942
The Big Street
5.8/18
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
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The Big Street
1946
Crack-Up
5.6/29
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Crack-Up
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
1940
The Girl from Avenue A
0/0
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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The Girl from Avenue A
1958
The Buccaneer
6.4/45
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will...
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The Buccaneer
1945
Pride of the Marines
6.5/12
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wif...
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Pride of the Marines
1946
Canyon Passage
6.6/59
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the l...
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