
Lloyd Nolan
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Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies.
Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer of Irish descent. He attended Santa Clara Preparatory School and Stanford University, flunking out of Stanford as a freshman "because I never got around to attending any other class but dramatics." His parents disapproved of his choice of a career in acting, preferring that he join his father's shoe business, "one of the most solvent commercial firms in San Francisco."
Nolan served in the United States Merchant Marine before joining the Dennis Players theatrical troupe in Cape Cod. He began his career on stage and was subsequently lured to Hollywood, where he played mainly doctors, private detectives, and policemen in many film roles.
Nolan also contributed solid and key character parts in numerous other films. One, The House on 92nd Street, was a startling revelation to audiences in 1945. It was a conflation of several true incidents of attempted sabotage by the Nazi regime (incidents which the FBI was able to thwart during World War II), and many scenes were filmed on location in New York City, unusual at the time. Nolan portrayed FBI Agent Briggs, and actual FBI employees interacted with Nolan throughout the film; he reprised the role in a subsequent 1948 movie, The Street with No Name.
Nolan appeared three times on NBC's Laramie Western series, as sheriff Tully Hatch in the episode "The Star Trail (1959), as outlaw Matt Dyer in the episode "Deadly Is the Night" (1961)[5] and then as former Union Army General George Barton in the episode "War Hero" (1962).[6] On December 8, 1960, Nolan was cast as Dr. Elisha Pittman, in "Knife of Hate" on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre. In the story line, Dr. Pittman removed one of the legs of Jack Hoyt (Robert Harland) after Hoyt sustained a gunshot wound from which infection was developing. Hoyt wants to marry Susan Pittman (Susan Oliver), but her father is at first unyielding on the matter.
Nolan starred in The Outer Limits episode "Soldier" written by Harlan Ellison. He appeared in the NBC Western Bonanza as LaDuke, a New Orleans detective. In 1967, Strother Martin and he guest-starred in the episode "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" of NBC's The Road West series, starring Barry Sullivan. Also in 1967, Nolan was a guest star in the popular Western TV series The Virginian, in the episode "The Masquerade" and in the first episode of Mannix.
A long-time cigar and pipe smoker, Nolan died of lung cancer on September 27, 1985, at his home in Brentwood, California; he was 83. He is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. CLR
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.016 |
Birthday | 1902-08-11 |
Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Also Known As | Lloyd Benedict Nolan, |

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

1970

Airport
6.417/396
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Airport

1974

Earthquake
6.111/328
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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Earthquake

1945

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7.6/95
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1986

Hannah and Her Sisters
7.504/1060
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...
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Hannah and Her Sisters

1951

The Lemon Drop Kid
6.6/26
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Cr...
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The Lemon Drop Kid

1941

Blues in the Night
6.2/25
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find...
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Blues in the Night

1953

Island in the Sky
6.2/61
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must ke...
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Island in the Sky

1945

The House on 92nd Street
6.4/42
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
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The House on 92nd Street

1941

Dressed to Kill
6.386/22
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
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Dressed to Kill

1945

Circumstantial Evidence
4.8/8
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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Circumstantial Evidence

1948

The Street with No Name
6.2/45
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI...
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The Street with No Name

1964

Circus World
6.1/72
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind betw...
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Circus World

1957

A Hatful of Rain
6.8/24
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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A Hatful of Rain

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

1943

Bataan
6.424/33
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destr...
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Bataan

1943

Guadalcanal Diary
5.6/19
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca...
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Guadalcanal Diary

1940

The House Across the Bay
5.3/13
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...
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The House Across the Bay

1960

Portrait in Black
5.7/24
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
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Portrait in Black

1968

Ice Station Zebra
6.241/166
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti...
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Ice Station Zebra

1940

Johnny Apollo
6.8/19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's releas...
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Johnny Apollo

1948

Green Grass of Wyoming
6.6/13
The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
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Green Grass of Wyoming

1942

Time to Kill
5.5/3
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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Time to Kill

1936

The Texas Rangers
6.406/16
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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The Texas Rangers

1963

We Joined the Navy
5.4/8
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the righ...
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We Joined the Navy

1941

Mr. Dynamite
0/0
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Mr. Dynamite

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself

1936

Big Brown Eyes
6.3/23
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...
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Big Brown Eyes

1980

Galyon
4/1
An oil tycoon hires Galyon, a jungle survival expert and soldier of fortune, to rescue his daughter and her husband from South American terrorists.
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Galyon

1961

Susan Slade
5.8/13
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.
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Susan Slade

1977

Fire!
6.7/11
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name c...
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Fire!

1963

The Girl Hunters
5.7/19
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the dow...
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The Girl Hunters

1946

Two Smart People
6.4/10
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
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Two Smart People

1942

It Happened in Flatbush
4.8/4
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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It Happened in Flatbush

1957

Abandon Ship
7.4/24
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over...
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Abandon Ship

1949

Easy Living
5.944/18
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Easy Living

1938

King of Alcatraz
5.7/3
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the s...
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King of Alcatraz

1942

The Man Who Wouldn't Die
6.4/11
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Die

1941

Sleepers West
6.3/15
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Sleepers West

1942

Just Off Broadway
5/4
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out o...
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Just Off Broadway

1940

Michael Shayne: Private Detective
6.5/11
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulett...
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1967

The Double Man
6.2/19
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its o...
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The Double Man

1956

The Last Hunt
6.7/39
A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.
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The Last Hunt

1937

Wells Fargo
5.1/11
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo

1940

Pier 13
5/2
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
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Pier 13

1944

Resisting Enemy Interrogation
6.2/4
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1949

The Sun Comes Up
6.4/4
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy...
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The Sun Comes Up

1966

An American Dream
4.6/5
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Debor...
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An American Dream

1940

The Golden Fleecing
5.3/6
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Golden Fleecing

1956

Toward the Unknown
5.6/11
Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bon...
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Toward the Unknown

1960

Girl of the Night
5/2
Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
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Girl of the Night

1942

Blue, White, and Perfect
6.3/9
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly...
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Blue, White, and Perfect

1939

The Magnificent Fraud
0/0
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
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The Magnificent Fraud

1936

You May Be Next!
2.5/1
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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You May Be Next!

1956

Santiago
5.1/7
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba....
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Santiago

1965

Never Too Late
5/5
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul...
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Never Too Late

1940

The Man I Married
6.3/13
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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The Man I Married

1978

My Boys Are Good Boys
7.2/4
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
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My Boys Are Good Boys

1940

Behind the News
0/0
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...
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Behind the News

1973

Isn't It Shocking?
6.1/9
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
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Isn't It Shocking?

1935

Atlantic Adventure
5.5/2
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later,...
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Atlantic Adventure

1937

Ebb Tide
6/1
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The...
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Ebb Tide

1937

Exclusive
6/1
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C...
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Exclusive

1946

Somewhere in the Night
6.7/69
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder ca...
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Somewhere in the Night

1935

She Couldn't Take It
4.5/2
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent...
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She Couldn't Take It

1953

Crazylegs
5/3
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
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Crazylegs

1949

Bad Boy
7.3/3
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
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Bad Boy

1938

Tip-Off Girls
6/1
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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Tip-Off Girls

1955

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
0/0
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial...
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1935

Stolen Harmony
6/1
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks...
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Stolen Harmony

1938

Dangerous to Know
6.5/5
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), wit...
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Dangerous to Know

1942

Manila Calling
7/2
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
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Manila Calling

1938

Hunted Men
6/1
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a...
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Hunted Men

1940

Charter Pilot
6/1
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong...
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Charter Pilot

1977

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
5/13
The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign...
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977

Flight to Holocaust
5.8/5
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
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Flight to Holocaust

1942

Apache Trail
6.4/5
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the stati...
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Apache Trail

1935

'G' Men
6.5/81
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend...
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'G' Men

1938

Prison Farm
5.7/3
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...
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Prison Farm

1939

Undercover Doctor
5.5/2
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his n...
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Undercover Doctor

1936

Devil's Squadron
6/1
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, h...
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Devil's Squadron

1941

Steel Against the Sky
5/4
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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Steel Against the Sky

1985

Prince Jack
0/0
A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
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Prince Jack

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
4/2
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1940

Gangs of Chicago
5.3/3
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Gangs of Chicago

1936

15 Maiden Lane
6/1
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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15 Maiden Lane

1935

One Way Ticket
5/1
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
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One Way Ticket

1936

Counterfeit
6/3
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
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Counterfeit

1939

Ambush
5/1
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...
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Ambush

1937

King of Gamblers
7/1
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...
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King of Gamblers

1941

Buy Me That Town
6/2
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The...
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Buy Me That Town

1937

Internes Can't Take Money
6.4/16
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gang...
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Internes Can't Take Money

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

1944

Attack: The Battle for New Britain
6/2
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the Sout...
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Attack: The Battle for New Britain

1939

St. Louis Blues
0/0
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they mak...
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St. Louis Blues

1943

Don't Be a Sucker!
6.8/13
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made t...
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Don't Be a Sucker!

1947

Wild Harvest
0/0
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money...
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Wild Harvest

1968

Sergeant Ryker
6.5/4
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and...
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Sergeant Ryker

1939

We're in the Movies, Now!
4/1
Promotion reel/souvenir of a 1939-40 meeting of the Paramount Studios sales people.
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We're in the Movies, Now!

1945

War Comes to America
6.9/16
The seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up t...
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War Comes to America

1937

Every Day's a Holiday
5.444/9
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smo...
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Every Day's a Holiday

1977

The November Plan
0/0
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
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The November Plan

1979

Valentine
0/0
A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.
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Valentine

2000

Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
0/0
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of C...
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Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America

1975

The Abduction of Saint Anne
6/1
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the...
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The Abduction of Saint Anne

1936

Lady of Secrets
6/1
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
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Lady of Secrets

1967

Wings of Fire
0/0
A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned h...
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Wings of Fire

1975

The Sky's the Limit
0/0
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
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