Leon Ames
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Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing fatherly figures in such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), as Judy Garland's father, and in Little Women (1949).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.774 |
Birthday | 1902-01-20 |
Place of Birth | Portland, Indiana, USA |
Also Known As | Leon Waycoff, Harry Leon Wycoff, Harry L. Wycoff, |
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
7/388
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1946
Lady in the Lake
6/97
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fro...
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Lady in the Lake
1953
Angel Face
7.054/168
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Angel Face
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.2/540
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1940
East Side Kids
7/5
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...
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East Side Kids
1949
Battleground
6.7/88
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Ho...
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Battleground
1938
Secrets of a Nurse
3/2
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in...
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Secrets of a Nurse
1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
7/90
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a...
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1979
Just You and Me, Kid
5.5/15
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
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Just You and Me, Kid
1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7.05/338
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1976
Sherlock Holmes in New York
5.8/30
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old ne...
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Sherlock Holmes in New York
1939
Fugitive at Large
6/1
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because...
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Fugitive at Large
1932
Murders in the Rue Morgue
6.1/128
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
1948
The Velvet Touch
6.1/27
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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The Velvet Touch
1951
On Moonlight Bay
6.4/27
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across...
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On Moonlight Bay
1950
Dial 1119
5.593/27
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of...
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Dial 1119
1938
Mysterious Mr. Moto
5.7/16
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1947
Song of the Thin Man
6.8/87
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Song of the Thin Man
1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.1/91
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
1960
From the Terrace
6.7/50
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his ca...
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From the Terrace
1943
The Iron Major
5.8/5
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching w...
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The Iron Major
1949
Little Women
7.398/210
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...
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Little Women
1948
On an Island with You
5.3/13
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done...
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On an Island with You
1957
Peyton Place
6.7/74
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which re...
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Peyton Place
1945
Yolanda and the Thief
5.7/11
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to he...
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Yolanda and the Thief
1949
Scene of the Crime
6.2/20
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
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Scene of the Crime
1937
Charlie Chan on Broadway
7/22
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insur...
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
1964
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
6.5/25
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments lan...
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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
6.5/180
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...
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The Absent-Minded Professor
1936
Pilot X
5/2
Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark...
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Pilot X
1945
They Were Expendable
6.531/113
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the a...
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They Were Expendable
1941
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
5.7/4
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by...
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1950
Crisis
6.6/24
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
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Crisis
1953
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
5.8/17
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and trib...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1935
Rescue Squad
2/1
An independently wealthy collector of objets d'art tries to influence an artist's model away from marrying a notorious scoundrel and to help an Asian...
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Rescue Squad
1943
Crime Doctor
6.2/13
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal...
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Crime Doctor
1951
It's a Big Country
5.3/7
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best director...
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It's a Big Country
1939
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
6.972/18
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find th...
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
6/9
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...
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Week-End at the Waldorf
1948
A Date with Judy
6/15
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship w...
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A Date with Judy
1939
Thunder Afloat
5.9/5
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Thunder Afloat
1953
Sabre Jet
6.7/3
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner read...
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Sabre Jet
1949
Any Number Can Play
6.9/12
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...
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Any Number Can Play
1947
Merton of the Movies
6.8/4
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert...
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Merton of the Movies
1950
The Happy Years
7.7/3
Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whos...
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The Happy Years
1971
Toklat
0/0
A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from res...
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Toklat
1975
The Meal
0/0
A rich Florida woman (Dina Merrill) invites big shots to a banquet, then watches with a friend (Carl Betz) as they destroy one another.
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The Meal
1951
Cattle Drive
6.1/13
The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and t...
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Cattle Drive
1946
The Cockeyed Miracle
6.7/3
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
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The Cockeyed Miracle
1945
Fall Guy
0/0
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
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Fall Guy
1937
Soak the Poor
7/2
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices...
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Soak the Poor
1938
Island in the Sky
7/4
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
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Island in the Sky
1934
Now I'll Tell
4.8/4
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by whic...
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Now I'll Tell
1932
Uptown New York
5.8/4
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a...
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Uptown New York
1945
The Great Morgan
5.5/2
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelate...
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The Great Morgan
1935
Strangers All
5.5/1
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Strangers All
1973
Brother of the Wind
5/2
A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild.
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Brother of the Wind
1953
Let's Do It Again
4/3
Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The...
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Let's Do It Again
1947
Undercover Maisie
8/1
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to...
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Undercover Maisie
1956
Engagement Party
0/0
Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."
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Engagement Party
1977
Claws
4/4
A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris...
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Claws
1938
International Settlement
5/2
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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International Settlement
1935
Get That Man
3.7/3
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
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Get That Man
1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
6.2/2
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1950
The Big Hangover
6.7/5
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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The Big Hangover
1947
The Amazing Mr. Nordill
5.5/3
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the gentlemanly life and masterful counterfeiting exploits of Everett Nordill, one of the cle...
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The Amazing Mr. Nordill
1945
Between Two Women
5.9/4
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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Between Two Women
1950
Watch the Birdie
5.3/7
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
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Watch the Birdie
1939
Panama Patrol
5/1
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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Panama Patrol
1935
Reckless
5.3/12
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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Reckless
1941
No Greater Sin
3.5/2
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commis...
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No Greater Sin
1965
The Monkey's Uncle
6/22
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ul...
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The Monkey's Uncle
1945
Anchors Aweigh
6.8/157
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew...
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Anchors Aweigh
1938
Suez
5.2/15
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Suez
1933
Forgotten
6/3
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' objec...
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Forgotten
1939
Risky Business
6/1
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Risky Business
1948
Alias a Gentleman
6.5/4
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
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Alias a Gentleman
1933
Parachute Jumper
6.1/18
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Parachute Jumper
1986
Jake Speed
4.4/15
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves live...
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Jake Speed
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
0/0
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1934
I'll Tell the World
0/0
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, new...
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I'll Tell the World
1939
Help Wanted
7/1
A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket
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Help Wanted
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.3/61
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
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
1983
Testament
6.434/124
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has bee...
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Testament
1939
Blackwell's Island
5/7
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Blackwell's Island
1939
The Marshal Of Mesa City
8/1
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1950
Ambush
5.1/14
A Westerner searches for a white woman held by the Apaches.
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Ambush
1933
Ship of Wanted Men
2/2
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth...
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Ship of Wanted Men
1950
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
4.7/3
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
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The Skipper Surprised His Wife
1939
Calling All Marines
0/0
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
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Calling All Marines
1933
The Man Who Dared
6/1
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Fra...
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The Man Who Dared
1937
Dangerously Yours
6/1
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one...
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Dangerously Yours
1946
No Leave, No Love
6/1
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he fal...
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No Leave, No Love
1938
Cipher Bureau
5.3/3
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
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Cipher Bureau
1946
The Show-Off
7/2
Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date.
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The Show-Off
1938
Come On, Leathernecks!
5/1
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
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Come On, Leathernecks!
1939
I Was a Convict
5/1
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they a...
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I Was a Convict
1939
Code of the Streets
7/2
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bo...
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Code of the Streets
1939
Legion of Lost Flyers
4/2
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-fli...
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Legion of Lost Flyers
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married
6.1/567
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
1933
Alimony Madness
0/0
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
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Alimony Madness
1931
Quick Millions
7.1/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...
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Quick Millions
1945
Son of Lassie
6/20
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
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Son of Lassie
1972
Hammersmith Is Out
6.2/6
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient off...
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Hammersmith Is Out
1932
A Successful Calamity
5.2/6
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy an...
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A Successful Calamity
1963
Son of Flubber
5.9/65
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...
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Son of Flubber
1938
The Spy Ring
5/3
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the...
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The Spy Ring
1942
George Washington Slept Here
6.286/14
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy...
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George Washington Slept Here
1932
Stowaway
5/1
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and bei...
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Stowaway
1938
Walking Down Broadway
5.7/3
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...
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Walking Down Broadway
1937
Murder in Greenwich Village
6.3/6
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...
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Murder in Greenwich Village
1937
Song of Revolt
6/1
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Song of Revolt
1935
Mutiny Ahead
4/1
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
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Mutiny Ahead
1979
The Best Place to Be
6/1
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much you...
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The Best Place to Be
1932
That's My Boy
0/0
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders a...
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That's My Boy
1933
Only Yesterday
6.8/5
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h...
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Only Yesterday
1970
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
6.7/57
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warre...
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1975
Timber Tramps
0/0
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
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Timber Tramps
1944
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
6.6/59
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1937
45 Fathers
1/1
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
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