
Gilbert Roland
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Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Roland was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. When Pancho Villa took control of their town, Roland and his family fled to the United States. He lived in Texas until at age 14 he hopped on a freight train and went to Hollywood. He chose his screen name by combining the names of his favorite actors, John Gilbert and Ruth Roland. He was often cast in the stereotypical Latin lover role.
Roland's first film contract was with Paramount. His first major role was in the collegiate comedy The Plastic Age (1925) together with Clara Bow, to whom he became engaged. In 1926, he played Armand in Camille opposite Norma Talmadge, with whom he was romantically involved, and they starred together in several productions. With the advent of sound films, Roland frequently appeared in Spanish language adaptations of American films, in romantic lead roles. Roland served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Beginning in the 1940s, critics began to take notice of his acting and he was praised for his supporting roles in John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He also appeared in a series of films in the mid-1940s as the popular character "The Cisco Kid". He played Hugo, the agnostic friend of the three shepherd children in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. In 1953, Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Mike Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. His last film appearance was in the 1982 western Barbarosa.
Roland married actress Constance Bennett in 1941. They were married until 1946 and had two daughters. His second marriage, to Guillermina Cantú in 1954, lasted until his death 40 years later.
Gilbert Roland died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994, aged 88.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.956 |
Birthday | 1905-12-11 |
Place of Birth | Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Also Known As | Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, Luis Alonso, Гилберт Роланд, |

1930

Monsieur Le Fox
6/1
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant (Robert Elliott) suspects Louis LeBey (Gilbert Roland). When Louis is attracted to newly arri...
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Monsieur Le Fox

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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1925

The Lost World
6.7/143
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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The Lost World

1967

Any Gun Can Play
6.3/16
A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
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Any Gun Can Play

1980

Cabo Blanco
5.3/33
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea ex...
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Cabo Blanco

1953

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
5.8/30
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the...
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1982

Barbarosa
5.8/38
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Barbarosa

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful
7.3/255
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful

1940

The Sea Hawk
7.2/130
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk

1950

The Furies
7.1/67
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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1964

Cheyenne Autumn
6.673/133
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne Autumn

1953

Thunder Bay
6.1/34
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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1933

She Done Him Wrong
5.8/114
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1945

Captain Kidd
6/28
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable...
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1952

My Six Convicts
6.3/9
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have n...
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My Six Convicts

1949

Malaya
6.5/13
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1956

Bandido!
5.8/18
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Bandido!

1959

The Wild and the Innocent
6.3/20
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to tr...
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1931

Resurrection
6/2
Simultaneously shot Spanish version of Tolstoy adaptation: After a woman he has formerly mistreated is sentenced for a crime a man who was part of her...
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Resurrection

1932

The men in my life
0/0
Alternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
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1952

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
5.7/24
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud. The anticlerical government wishes to...
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

1941

My Life with Caroline
5.7/3
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
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My Life with Caroline

1942

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
5.5/3
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

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

1949

We Were Strangers
5.9/17
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with Ameri...
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We Were Strangers

1923

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6.5/119
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral ca...
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1954

The French Line
4.2/9
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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The French Line

1977

Islands in the Stream
6.4/21
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
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Islands in the Stream

1932

The Passionate Plumber
6/9
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....
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The Passionate Plumber

1957

The Midnight Story
5.6/23
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with...
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The Midnight Story

1968

Johnny Hamlet
6.3/22
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and...
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Johnny Hamlet

1956

Three Violent People
6.1/36
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
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1975

The Deadly Tower
6.6/25
The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mothe...
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The Deadly Tower

1968

Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
4.9/8
A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
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Between God, The Devil and a Winchester

1968

The Ruthless Four
6.1/18
This superior Spaghetti western scrutinizes the greed and paranoia that afflict four men as they struggle among themselves to unearth a fortune in gol...
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The Ruthless Four

1927

Camille
1/1
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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1955

The Treasure of Pancho Villa
5.8/12
In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
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The Treasure of Pancho Villa

1939

Juarez
6.5/21
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Juarez

1951

Bullfighter and the Lady
5.9/11
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
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Bullfighter and the Lady

1974

Treasure of Tayopa
3.7/3
Modern day western about an expedition led by Winters to find a lost treasure in the Mexican badlands. Psycho Trapani turns the search into a bloodbat...
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Treasure of Tayopa

1932

Call Her Savage
5.75/16
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage...
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Call Her Savage

1927

The Dove
6.5/4
Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictato...
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The Dove

1955

Underwater!
5.6/21
Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.
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1947

The Other Love
6/17
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of...
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1965

The Reward
5.7/3
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
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The Reward

1952

Apache War Smoke
3/1
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulle...
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Apache War Smoke

1951

Ten Tall Men
6.3/15
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's...
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Ten Tall Men

1974

The Mark of Zorro
5.9/16
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
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The Mark of Zorro

1968

Sartana Does Not Forgive
6.1/7
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.
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Sartana Does Not Forgive

1958

The Last of the Fast Guns
5.25/16
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dyin...
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The Last of the Fast Guns

1966

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8/21
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1959

The Big Circus
6.5/14
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu...
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The Big Circus

1929

New York Nights
4.8/5
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being...
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New York Nights

1955

The Racers
6/2
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.
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The Racers

1955

That Lady
6/4
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his sec...
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That Lady

1953

The Diamond Queen
0/0
A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
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The Diamond Queen

1942

Isle of Missing Men
6.2/4
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husba...
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Isle of Missing Men

1933

Gigolettes of Paris
5/1
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a ric...
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Gigolettes of Paris

1940

Gambling on the High Seas
4.7/3
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Gambling on the High Seas

1935

Mystery Woman
0/0
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove h...
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Mystery Woman

1932

A Parisian Romance
4.3/3
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to...
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A Parisian Romance

1950

The Torch
4.8/10
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as...
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The Torch

1999

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
7.7/3
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

1935

Ladies Love Danger
0/0
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartm...
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Ladies Love Danger

1952

Glory Alley
5.833/12
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
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Glory Alley

1933

After Tonight
6.3/6
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of th...
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After Tonight

1940

Isle Of Destiny
5/6
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Isle Of Destiny

1937

The Last Train from Madrid
4.6/8
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
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The Last Train from Madrid

1947

King of the Bandits
4/1
Traveling north into Arizona, Cisco finds that someone committing robberies has been impersonating him and he is a wanted man. After retrieving some o...
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King of the Bandits

1962

Samar
0/0
In 1870, in the Spanish Philippines, the commandant of an island penal colony, aided by an American doctor and local villagers, decides to relocate hi...
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Samar

1946

Beauty and the Bandit
6/4
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The...
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Beauty and the Bandit

1946

The Gay Cavalier
0/0
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to...
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The Gay Cavalier

1946

South of Monterey
0/0
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Wood...
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South of Monterey

1947

Riding the California Trail
4/0
Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but e...
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Riding the California Trail

1947

Robin Hood of Monterey
5.9/4
Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of t...
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Robin Hood of Monterey

1960

Guns of the Timberland
6.1/13
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The resident...
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Guns of the Timberland

1951

The Mark of the Renegade
5.2/9
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
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The Mark of the Renegade

1930

Men of the North
5/2
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie be...
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Men of the North

1948

The Dude Goes West
5.8/4
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and be...
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The Dude Goes West

1941

Angels with Broken Wings
3.7/3
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But...
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Angels with Broken Wings

1925

The Spaniard
0/0
In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. L...
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The Spaniard

1932

Life Begins
6/7
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati...
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Life Begins

1928

The Woman Disputed
6.2/2
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
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The Woman Disputed

1938

Gateway
6.5/3
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h...
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Gateway

1937

Midnight Taxi
5/3
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Midnight Taxi

1933

Our Betters
5.4/11
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maint...
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Our Betters

1933

Una viuda romántica
0/0
1933 Spanish language film.
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Una viuda romántica

1947

Pirates of Monterey
4.7/3
A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part...
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Pirates of Monterey

1940

Rangers of Fortune
5/1
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...
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Rangers of Fortune

1937

Thunder Trail
6/1
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits...
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Thunder Trail

1974

The Pacific Connection
4.3/2
Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai...
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The Pacific Connection

1932

The Woman in Room 13
0/0
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he i...
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The Woman in Room 13

1949

La rebelión de los fantasmas
5/4
When an old house is about to be demolished to make room for a new radio station the famous ghosts which resides in the house start a revolt to alter...
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La rebelión de los fantasmas

1926

The College Flirt
0/0
A product of wealth and high society, Patricia Mansfield is sent to Colton College by her father, who hopes to eradicate her snobbish veneer. On the t...
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The College Flirt

1971

The Christian Licorice Store
4.4/4
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.
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The Christian Licorice Store

1938

La vida bohemia
0/0
Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the im...
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La vida bohemia

1973

Incident on a Dark Street
5/2
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
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Incident on a Dark Street

1977

The Black Pearl
7.5/4
The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father agrees to let him experience this job. Ramon enters...
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The Black Pearl

1932

No Living Witness
0/0
An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.
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No Living Witness

1927

Rose of the Golden West
0/0
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians...
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Rose of the Golden West

2003

Complicated Women
6.7/11
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women

1925

The Plastic Age
5.9/11
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds th...
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The Plastic Age

1927

The Love Mart
0/0
Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides...
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The Love Mart

1934

Elinor Norton
6/1
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her hus...
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Elinor Norton

1935

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.8/11
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awar...
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

1944

The Desert Hawk
6/1
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlist...
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The Desert Hawk

1943

Wings Up
5.2/5
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
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Wings Up

1973

Running Wild
0/0
A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.
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Running Wild

1947

High Conquest
0/0
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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High Conquest

1926

The Blonde Saint
0/0
Playboy novelist Sebastian Maure falls for Ghiirlaine Bellamy, a product of a wealthy--and puritanical--society family, a girl so prim and proper that...
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The Blonde Saint

1925

The Lady Who Lied
0/0
During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is dera...
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