DeWitt Jennings
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DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.577 |
| Birthday | 1871-06-21 |
| Place of Birth | Cameron, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | De Witt C. Jennings, De Witt Jennings, DeWitt C. Jennings, DeWitt Clarke Jennings, |
1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.5/132
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1929
Seven Footprints to Satan
6/13
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his pla...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
1931
The Secret Six
5.8/15
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scor...
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The Secret Six
1924
The Deadwood Coach
0/0
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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The Deadwood Coach
1931
The Criminal Code
6.093/27
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 year...
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The Criminal Code
1923
Circus Days
6.5/2
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Circus Days
1921
The Poverty of Riches
0/0
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family ri...
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The Poverty of Riches
1930
The Big House
6.634/41
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning...
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The Big House
1942
Thru Different Eyes
0/0
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
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Thru Different Eyes
1924
The Desert Outlaw
0/0
Tom Halloway, compelled through circumstances to become an outlaw, robs the express office on the day of his sister's arrival from the East and is see...
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The Desert Outlaw
1932
Silver Dollar
5.7/3
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Silver Dollar
1931
Caught Plastered
5.75/4
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
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Caught Plastered
1933
A Lady's Profession
0/0
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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A Lady's Profession
1935
Murder on a Honeymoon
5.8/6
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May...
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Murder on a Honeymoon
1921
Alias Ladyfingers
6/1
When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five years later her daughter, now widowed, is killed. He...
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Alias Ladyfingers
1935
I Dream Too Much
4.9/13
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...
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I Dream Too Much
1933
I Loved a Woman
4.8/12
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l...
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I Loved a Woman
1936
Exclusive Story
6.5/4
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Exclusive Story
1925
Go Straight!
0/0
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywood to begin anew but the old gang follows behind. C...
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Go Straight!
1936
The Accusing Finger
4.7/3
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...
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The Accusing Finger
1929
The Valiant
5.769/13
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
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The Valiant
1932
The Match King
6.6/5
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipula...
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The Match King
1922
Flesh and Blood
5.9/8
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his...
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Flesh and Blood
1924
Hit and Run
0/0
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat becomes a success because of his exceptional hitti...
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Hit and Run
1923
Out of Luck
0/0
Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot get released when he learns that his "victim" is...
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Out of Luck
1923
Blinky
0/0
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous milita...
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Blinky
1925
The Splendid Road
0/0
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had...
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The Splendid Road
1921
Beating the Game
0/0
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow...
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Beating the Game
1933
One Year Later
6.3/3
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution...
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One Year Later
1933
On Your Guard
6/2
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
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On Your Guard
1937
That I May Live
6.5/2
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...
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That I May Live
1931
Arrowsmith
6.5/26
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Arrowsmith
1931
The Squaw Man
5.4/10
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry...
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The Squaw Man
1926
The Fire Brigade
3.5/2
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that he...
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The Fire Brigade
1931
Trapped
0/0
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.
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Trapped
1925
Don't
0/0
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
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Don't
1934
Little Man, What Now?
6.4/8
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire...
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Little Man, What Now?
1927
McFadden's Flats
0/0
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter...
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McFadden's Flats
1932
Dancers in the Dark
4.8/5
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan...
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Dancers in the Dark
1935
Village Tale
4.5/1
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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Village Tale
1924
Name the Man
0/0
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Colli...
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Name the Man
1931
The Primrose Path
0/0
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
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The Primrose Path
1934
The Fighting Rookie
4/2
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whisk...
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The Fighting Rookie
1924
By Divine Right
0/0
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By Divine Right
1934
Massacre
5.8/10
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his peopl...
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Massacre
1933
Ladies They Talk About
6.1/38
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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Ladies They Talk About
1918
The Hillcrest Mystery
0/0
During a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn over his shipbuilding plant to the United States gove...
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The Hillcrest Mystery
1934
A Man's Game
0/0
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the...
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A Man's Game
1929
The Trial of Mary Dugan
6/3
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B...
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
1921
There Are No Villains
0/0
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then...
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There Are No Villains
1926
Chip of the Flying U
0/0
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Ky...
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Chip of the Flying U
1930
The Night Ride
0/0
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony...
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The Night Ride
1930
Captain of the Guard
0/0
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's sym...
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Captain of the Guard
1928
The Night Flyer
5/1
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mull...
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The Night Flyer
1926
While London Sleeps
3/1
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse district of London.
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While London Sleeps
1927
Two Arabian Knights
6.045/22
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc...
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Two Arabian Knights
1926
The Ice Flood
0/0
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American n...
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The Ice Flood
1929
Seven Keys to Baldpate
6.3/6
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1929
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
3/1
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marr...
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
1930
The Bat Whispers
6.259/27
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the...
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The Bat Whispers
1935
A Dog of Flanders
7/1
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
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A Dog of Flanders
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
1922
Mixed Faces
0/0
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets his double, a young traveling salesman named Jimmy...
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Mixed Faces
1937
We Who Are About to Die
6.8/4
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic...
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We Who Are About to Die
1926
Exit Smiling
7.9/7
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Fla...
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Exit Smiling
1934
The President Vanishes
7/3
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman a...
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The President Vanishes
1933
Strictly Personal
5/1
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these wer...
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Strictly Personal
1930
Min and Bill
6.273/22
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
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Min and Bill
1935
Mary Jane's Pa
6/3
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...
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Mary Jane's Pa
1931
A Dangerous Affair
0/0
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of...
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A Dangerous Affair
1934
Secret of the Chateau
6/1
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
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Secret of the Chateau
1934
Take the Stand
4/2
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Take the Stand
1924
The Deadwood Coach
0/0
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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The Deadwood Coach
1936
Sins of Man
0/0
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the secon...
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Sins of Man
1923
Within the Law
5.1/6
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always stayin...
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Within the Law
1930
Those Who Dance
6/3
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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Those Who Dance
1935
The Daring Young Man
0/0
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...
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The Daring Young Man
1925
The Mystic
6.5/11
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high soc...
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The Mystic
1936
Kelly the Second
6/2
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
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Kelly the Second
1931
Salvation Nell
0/0
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
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Salvation Nell
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.3/335
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
1937
This Is My Affair
7.3/15
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa...
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This Is My Affair
1932
Midnight Morals
0/0
A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.
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Midnight Morals
1930
The Big Trail
6.7/111
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Camer...
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The Big Trail
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
5.6/5
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolph...
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Sing, Baby, Sing
1915
At Bay
0/0
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At Bay
1934
The Meanest Gal in Town
6.5/2
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
1924
The Silent Watcher
0/0
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), so that he will be more presentable candidate. Whe...
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The Silent Watcher
1917
The Little American
6.25/16
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir...
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The Little American
1933
Golden Harvest
5/1
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market...
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Golden Harvest
1922
The Right That Failed
0/0
The Right That Failed
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The Right That Failed
1929
Thru Different Eyes
0/0
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the...
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Thru Different Eyes
1934
Death on the Diamond
7/4
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the v...
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Death on the Diamond
1937
Slave Ship
4.8/6
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Slave Ship
1935
Front Page Woman
5.8/16
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigat...
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Front Page Woman
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
1928
The Crash
0/0
The Crash (1928)
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The Crash
1924
The Enemy Sex
9/1
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party,...
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The Enemy Sex
1937
Fifty Roads to Town
0/0
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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Fifty Roads to Town
1932
Night Court
6.3/7
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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Night Court
1933
Police Car 17
2/1
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
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Police Car 17
1928
The Air Mail Pilot
0/0
A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.
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The Air Mail Pilot
1928
Me, Gangster
0/0
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
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Me, Gangster
1929
Red Hot Speed
0/0
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-s...
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Red Hot Speed
1927
The Great Mail Robbery
0/0
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant D...
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The Great Mail Robbery
1921
The Golden Snare
0/0
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
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The Golden Snare
1933
Reform Girl
5.5/2
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daugh...
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Reform Girl
1932
Central Park
5.2/6
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again i...
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Central Park
1924
Merton of the Movies
0/0
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.
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Merton of the Movies
1932
Movie Crazy
6.2/23
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Movie Crazy
1922
Sherlock Brown
0/0
The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government. William Brown, a clerk who aspires to be a detect...
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Sherlock Brown
1934
Charlie Chan's Courage
8/2
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begin...
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Charlie Chan's Courage
1932
By Whose Hand?
6/4
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped kill...
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By Whose Hand?
1933
Made on Broadway
6.5/2
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cul...
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