
George Brent
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George Brent (born George Patrick [or George Brendan] Nolan, 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor.
Brent was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1904 to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.
Brent made his first film, Under Suspicion, in 1930. Over the next two years, he appeared in a number of minor films produced by Universal Studios and Fox, before being signed to contract by Warner Bros. in 1932. He remained at Warner Bros. for the next 20 years, carving out a successful career as a top-flight leading man during the late 1930s and 1940s.
Highly regarded by Bette Davis, he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in 13 films, including Front Page Woman (1935), Special Agent (1935), The Golden Arrow (1936), Jezebel (1938), The Old Maid (1939), Dark Victory (1939), and The Great Lie (1941). Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934), Ginger Rogers in In Person (1935), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest (1934) and The Rains Came (1939), Merle Oberon in 'Til We Meet Again (1940), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three (1941), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan (1945), Barbara Stanwyck in So Big! (1932), The Purchase Price (1932), Baby Face (1933), The Gay Sisters (1942), and My Reputation (1946), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946), and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947).
Brent drifted into "B" pictures from the late 1940s and retired from film in 1953. He continued to appear on television until 1960, having appeared on the religion anthology series Crossroads. He was cast in the lead in the 1956 television series Wire Service. In 1978, he made one last film, the made-for-television production Born Again.
In 1960, Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars. He received a motion-pictures star located at 1709 Vine Street, and a second star located at 1612 Vine Street for his work in television.
Brent was married five times: Helen Louise Campbell (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Worth (1937), Ann Sheridan (1942–1943), and Janet Michaels (1947–1974). His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and dress designer, lasted 27 years until her death in 1974. They had a son and a daughter.
Brent also carried on a lengthy relationship with his frequent Warner Bros. co-star, actress Bette Davis, who described her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. He was suffering from advanced emphysema, and she expressed great sadness at his ill health and deterioration. George Brent died in 1979 in Solana Beach, California.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.47 |
Birthday | 1904-03-15 |
Place of Birth | Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland |
Also Known As | George Brendan Nolan, George B. Nolan, George Nolan, George Patrick Nolan, |

1933

42nd Street
6.9/184
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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2006

Jezebel: Legend of the South
0/0
Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."
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1938

Jezebel
7/198
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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1944

Experiment Perilous
5.6/34
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1946

The Spiral Staircase
7.042/251
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1942

You Can't Escape Forever
5.4/5
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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1933

Baby Face
7.276/125
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her hap...
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1939

Dark Victory
7/142
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1942

In This Our Life
6.8/48
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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1949

Illegal Entry
5.4/7
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1941

The Great Lie
6.833/45
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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1935

The Right to Live
5.1/5
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
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1934

Stamboul Quest
5.4/8
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1946

Temptation
4.9/9
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1946

Tomorrow Is Forever
6.1/33
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1939

The Old Maid
7/50
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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1931

The Lightning Warrior
5/2
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1952

The Last Page
5.7/23
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
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1934

The Painted Veil
6.5/33
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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1935

Special Agent
6.3/10
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1940

The Fighting 69th
5.4/24
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1933

Female
6.3/28
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1932

The Purchase Price
6.6/24
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1942

The Gay Sisters
6.5/8
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1938

Racket Busters
5.1/11
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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1947

Christmas Eve
5.3/12
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1933

Lilly Turner
5.6/8
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1932

They Call It Sin
5.8/10
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1948

Luxury Liner
5.2/5
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de...
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1952

Montana Belle
5.9/6
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1932

So Big!
5.846/13
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1931

Homicide Squad
0/0
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
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1946

My Reputation
7.1/19
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1932

The Rich Are Always with Us
5.2/6
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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1941

Honeymoon for Three
5.8/5
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1939

Wings of the Navy
6/5
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1942

Silver Queen
5.6/5
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1951

FBI Girl
5.9/7
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1938

Out Where the Stars Begin
6.5/3
When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.
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1937

God's Country and the Woman
4.2/4
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and...
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1933

Luxury Liner
6.3/3
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1940

The Man Who Talked Too Much
6/4
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1939

The Rains Came
5.875/20
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1932

Week-End Marriage
6/4
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
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1940

'Til We Meet Again
6.2/9
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...
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1934

Desirable
7.3/3
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1937

Mountain Justice
5.5/2
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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1935

The Goose and the Gander
4.6/6
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...
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1940

Adventure in Diamonds
5.2/4
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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1949

Red Canyon
5/4
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
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1938

Swingtime in the Movies
5.8/10
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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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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1947

The Corpse Came C.O.D.
5.7/3
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.

1937

Submarine D-1
4.7/6
Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and underwat...
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Submarine D-1

1941

They Dare Not Love
6/1
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his m...
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1938

Secrets of an Actress
5.6/5
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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1945

The Affairs of Susan
6.1/8
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Sus...
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The Affairs of Susan

1935

In Person
6.3/3
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected b...
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In Person

1935

Stranded
5.8/5
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded

1932

The Crash
5.2/4
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
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The Crash

1934

Housewife
7.6/9
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patric...
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Housewife

1932

Miss Pinkerton
5.7/10
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to fer...
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Miss Pinkerton

1936

Give Me Your Heart
6/6
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Give Me Your Heart

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1936

More Than a Secretary
6.4/7
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn...
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More Than a Secretary

1936

The Case Against Mrs. Ames
4/2
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames

1933

From Headquarters
5.8/6
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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From Headquarters

1936

The Golden Arrow
6.1/10
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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The Golden Arrow

1933

The Keyhole
4.9/13
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The Keyhole

1947

Slave Girl
5/1
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Slave Girl

1935

Living on Velvet
5.5/6
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of...
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Living on Velvet

1938

Gold Is Where You Find It
6.9/9
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1...
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Gold Is Where You Find It

1936

Snowed Under
7/3
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...
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Snowed Under

1937

The Go-Getter
5.8/4
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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The Go-Getter

1946

Lover Come Back
6.2/3
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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Lover Come Back

1940

South of Suez
5/3
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger S...
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South of Suez

1948

Angel on the Amazon
4.8/5
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found t...
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Angel on the Amazon

1978

Born Again
0/0
Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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1949

Bride for Sale
6/2
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their cl...
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Bride for Sale

1931

Ex-Bad Boy
0/0
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
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Ex-Bad Boy

1939

Land of Liberty
0/0
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Land of Liberty

1931

Once a Sinner
0/0
As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still...
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Once a Sinner

1949

The Kid from Cleveland
5/1
Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life spirals out of control, sneaks into the 1948 World Series a...
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The Kid from Cleveland

1947

Out of the Blue
6.6/9
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...
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Out of the Blue

1953

Mexican Manhunt
5.8/2
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexic...
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Mexican Manhunt

1936

Breakdowns of 1936
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Breakdowns of 1936

1941

International Lady
6.4/7
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a...
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International Lady

1994

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
0/0
Share the magical memories - and see clips from her Oscar winning performances - in this profile of the "First Lady of the American screen."
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1942

Twin Beds
2.7/3
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.
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Twin Beds

1931

Charlie Chan Carries On
6.5/2
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Ko...
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Charlie Chan Carries On

1938

Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938

1935

Things You Never See on the Screen
5/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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1935

A Dream Comes True
5.5/1
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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A Dream Comes True

1937

Breakdowns of 1937
6/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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1944

Breakdowns of 1944
6.5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
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1940

Breakdowns of 1940
4/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
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1931

Fair Warning
0/0
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistli...
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Fair Warning

1956

Death of a Scoundrel
6/21
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
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Death of a Scoundrel

1953

Tangier Incident
5/1
Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are the...
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Tangier Incident

1930

Under Suspicion
0/0
A group of Canadian Royal Mounted Police officers arrive home after serving overseas with the Allied Army. After enjoying a birthday banquet for the a...
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Under Suspicion

1942

Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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