
Keye Luke
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Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麒, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor. He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.343 |
Birthday | 1904-06-18 |
Place of Birth | Guangzhou, China |
Also Known As | Key Luke, 陸錫麒, |

1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.475/2621
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1984

Gremlins
7.1/6449
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mo...
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Gremlins

1981

Fly Away Home
4.7/3
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 196...
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Fly Away Home

1940

Phantom of Chinatown
6.1/14
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bott...
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Phantom of Chinatown

1990

Alice
6.4/310
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...
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Alice

1937

Charlie Chan at the Olympics
6.7/25
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against i...
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics

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

1936

Charlie Chan at the Circus
6.167/24
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
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Charlie Chan at the Circus

1936

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
7.109/23
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncov...
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track

1935

Charlie Chan in Paris
6.548/21
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is kille...
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Charlie Chan in Paris

1935

Charlie Chan in Shanghai
6.63/27
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
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Charlie Chan in Shanghai

1936

Charlie Chan at the Opera
6.765/34
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years a...
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Charlie Chan at the Opera

1935

Mad Love
6.9/110
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which...
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Mad Love

1954

World for Ransom
5/20
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of s...
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World for Ransom

1954

Hell's Half Acre
5.4/17
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
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Hell's Half Acre

1942

Invisible Agent
5.8/50
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Invisible Agent

1968

Project X
5.6/16
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon...
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Project X

1957

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
7.2/10
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batter...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

1955

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6/83
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolu...
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1942

The Falcon's Brother
6.4/14
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
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The Falcon's Brother

1941

Bowery Blitzkrieg
6.1/8
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangste...
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Bowery Blitzkrieg

1937

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
6.477/22
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web...
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

1937

Charlie Chan on Broadway
7.022/23
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

1952

Hong Kong
4.5/10
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beau...
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Hong Kong

1986

Kung Fu: The Movie
5/17
In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second bei...
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Kung Fu: The Movie

1948

The Feathered Serpent
5.8/12
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...
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The Feathered Serpent

1934

Happiness Ahead
6/4
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washe...
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Happiness Ahead

1948

Sleep, My Love
6.4/50
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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Sleep, My Love

1970

The Hawaiians
5.4/16
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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The Hawaiians

1938

Mr. Moto's Gamble
6.3/16
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Le...
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Mr. Moto's Gamble

1943

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
5.5/4
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

1942

A Yank on the Burma Road
4/1
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
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A Yank on the Burma Road

1945

First Yank into Tokyo
5.4/5
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
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First Yank into Tokyo

1936

King of Burlesque
5.9/6
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who hel...
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King of Burlesque

1948

Waterfront at Midnight
4/1
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined...
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Waterfront at Midnight

1953

South Sea Woman
5.4/8
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time...
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South Sea Woman

1941

No Hands on the Clock
4.9/7
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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No Hands on the Clock

1950

Young Man with a Horn
6.265/51
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst...
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Young Man with a Horn

1973

The Cat Creature
5/13
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police co...
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The Cat Creature

1942

Destination Unknown
6/1
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Destination Unknown

1942

A Tragedy at Midnight
4/2
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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A Tragedy at Midnight

1944

3 Men in White
6/11
Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis competi...
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3 Men in White

1945

Secret Agent X-9
5.4/5
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
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Secret Agent X-9

1942

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
5.3/3
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant

2012

Keye Luke
0/0
KEYE LUKE is a short film bio-pic about pioneering Actor and Artist Keye Luke, the first, original on-screen Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet decades be...
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Keye Luke

1974

Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
0/0
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial center Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a Taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers...
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Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders

2019

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
5.5/6
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

1954

The Bamboo Prison
6.4/8
A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.
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The Bamboo Prison

1946

Lost City of the Jungle
6.2/3
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for W...
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Lost City of the Jungle

1939

Sued for Libel
5.4/4
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Sued for Libel

1941

The Gang's All Here
5/8
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including...
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The Gang's All Here

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

1945

Between Two Women
5.9/4
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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Between Two Women

1939

Barricade
5/2
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Barricade

1942

Across the Pacific
6.5/76
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship f...
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Across the Pacific

1968

Nobody's Perfect
5.5/2
This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village,...
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Nobody's Perfect

1977

The Amsterdam Kill
4.7/9
Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amster...
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The Amsterdam Kill

1941

Let's Go Collegiate
5/4
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafte...
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Let's Go Collegiate

1942

Somewhere I'll Find You
5.9/12
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.
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Somewhere I'll Find You

2012

Battle of the Planets: The Movie
0/0
A compilation of several Battle of the Planets episodes with a new story and uncut death scenes.
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Battle of the Planets: The Movie

1947

Dark Delusion
6/4
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay....
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Dark Delusion

1953

Fair Wind to Java
4.9/7
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vesse...
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Fair Wind to Java

1934

The Painted Veil
6.5/33
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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The Painted Veil

1935

Shanghai
7/1
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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Shanghai

1989

The Mighty Quinn
6.2/119
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapi...
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The Mighty Quinn

1985

Blade in Hong Kong
0/0
Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Chang Chin-tzu. When Chang Chin-tzu is...
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Blade in Hong Kong

1959

Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.3/33
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

1935

Oil for the Lamps of China
7.3/5
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Oil for the Lamps of China

1988

Dead Heat
6.121/199
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical...
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Dead Heat

1935

Murder in the Fleet
5/2
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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Murder in the Fleet

1942

North to the Klondike
6.8/3
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
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North to the Klondike

1972

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
7/25
After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

1949

Manhandled
5.1/16
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing t...
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Manhandled

1940

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
6.2/4
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

1946

Tokyo Rose
5/1
Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one...
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Tokyo Rose

1940

The Green Hornet
5.5/10
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Green Hornet

1941

Burma Convoy
0/0
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Burma Convoy

1939

North of Shanghai
0/0
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over...
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North of Shanghai

1942

Spy Ship
6/1
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With...
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Spy Ship

1944

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
5.7/8
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he s...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1935

Here's to Romance
0/0
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patron...
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Here's to Romance

1937

The Good Earth
6.293/70
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the man...
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The Good Earth

1940

No, No, Nanette
6/4
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Att...
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No, No, Nanette

1940

Comrade X
5.8/22
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Comrade X

1940

Wildcat Bus
4.6/4
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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Wildcat Bus

1949

Sky Dragon
7.7/3
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is miss...
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Sky Dragon

1986

A Fine Mess
4.7/26
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it w...
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A Fine Mess

1943

Salute to the Marines
6.8/4
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first...
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Salute to the Marines

1970

Noon Sunday
3.5/4
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
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Noon Sunday

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/521
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days

1983

The Nightingale
3.7/3
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.
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The Nightingale

1969

The Chairman
5.5/18
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a...
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The Chairman

1939

Disputed Passage
5.5/2
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs int...
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Disputed Passage

1955

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6/83
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolu...
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1943

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
5/2
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

1945

How DOooo You Do
0/0
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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How DOooo You Do

1983

Cocaine and Blue Eyes
4.3/3
Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading...
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes

1942

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
5.2/6
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it pa...
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

1986

Kappa
0/0
Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...
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Kappa

1942

Mr. and Mrs. North
4.5/6
Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.
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Mr. and Mrs. North

1976

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.1/15
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1974

Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
0/0
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
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Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita

1986

T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport
0/0
Hooker and his team become the protection detail of a Senator, and an old friend of Hooker's, after Hooker saves his life during a routine prisoner tr...
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