
George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.329 |
Birthday | 1895-09-26 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | George Ranft, Georgie, Джордж Рафт, |

1959

Some Like It Hot
8.093/3526
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join a...
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Some Like It Hot

1960

Ocean's Eleven
6.4/359
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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Ocean's Eleven

1932

Scarface
7.444/608
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...
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Scarface

1968

The Movie Orgy
6.2/9
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy

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

1954

Rogue Cop
5.3/12
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
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Rogue Cop

1941

Manpower
6.7/15
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens...
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Manpower

1967

Casino Royale
5.3/740
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...
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Casino Royale

1949

Red Light
5.5/20
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pay...
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Red Light

1978

Sextette
3.7/15
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is sought to intervene in a political dispute between nations, wh...
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Sextette

1968

Skidoo
4.9/20
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, Go...
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Skidoo

1955

A Bullet for Joey
5.5/25
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to car...
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A Bullet for Joey

1944

Follow the Boys
5.3/9
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...
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Follow the Boys

1943

Background to Danger
6.6/24
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger

1961

The Ladies Man
6.3/124
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is...
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The Ladies Man

1945

Johnny Angel
5.9/28
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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Johnny Angel

1939

Each Dawn I Die
6.7/53
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...
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Each Dawn I Die

1980

The Man with Bogart's Face
6.4/9
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly li...
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The Man with Bogart's Face

1935

The Glass Key
6.3/11
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-h...
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The Glass Key

1929

Queen of the Night Clubs
0/0
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
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Queen of the Night Clubs

1937

Souls at Sea
6/10
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Souls at Sea

1949

Johnny Allegro
6.2/15
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hun...
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Johnny Allegro

1954

Black Widow
6.4/48
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
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Black Widow

1946

Nocturne
5.7/26
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn'...
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Nocturne

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

1938

You and Me
6.7/37
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...
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You and Me

1939

I Stole a Million
6/1
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million

1940

They Drive by Night
6.9/113
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
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They Drive by Night

1947

Intrigue
5/3
Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market...
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Intrigue

1949

A Dangerous Profession
5.6/15
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.
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A Dangerous Profession

1941

Breakdowns of 1941
7/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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Breakdowns of 1941

1932

Night After Night
6.1/18
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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Night After Night

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

1952

Loan Shark
5.8/18
A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharker...
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Loan Shark

1948

Race Street
5.8/19
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
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Race Street

1929

Gold Diggers of Broadway
7/1
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway

1946

Whistle Stop
4.5/25
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and...
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Whistle Stop

1967

Five Golden Dragons
5.4/15
While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden D...
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Five Golden Dragons

1966

The Upper Hand
6.3/40
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an unde...
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The Upper Hand

1938

Spawn of the North
5.6/9
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Spawn of the North

1947

Christmas Eve
5.3/12
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three l...
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Christmas Eve

1950

We Will All Go to Paris
5.2/5
The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
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We Will All Go to Paris

1942

Broadway
5.5/3
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Broadway

1932

If I Had a Million
6.5/40
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million

1959

Jet Over The Atlantic
5.4/7
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready...
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Jet Over The Atlantic

1964

The Patsy
6.2/52
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanle...
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The Patsy

1931

Palmy Days
7/7
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychi...
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Palmy Days

2008

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
6.9/7
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

1931

Quick Millions
7.1/10
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pill...
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Quick Millions

1951

I'll Get You for This
6.8/4
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. N...
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I'll Get You for This

1933

Pick-up
4.8/4
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, sh...
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Pick-up

1932

Winner Take All
5.3/6
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...
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Winner Take All

1934

The Trumpet Blows
0/0
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...
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The Trumpet Blows

1934

Limehouse Blues
4.2/6
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloo...
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Limehouse Blues

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
6.8/10
A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

1934

Bolero
6.1/9
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
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Bolero

1953

The Man From Cairo
4.8/5
"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike...
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The Man From Cairo

1949

Outpost in Morocco
4.8/10
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he c...
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Outpost in Morocco

1933

Midnight Club
0/0
With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Stan...
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Midnight Club

1945

Nob Hill
5.7/3
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.
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Nob Hill

1934

All of Me
6/1
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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All of Me

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

1935

Every Night at Eight
7.5/2
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing,...
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Every Night at Eight

1932

Madame Racketeer
4.8/5
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...
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Madame Racketeer

1933

The Bowery
5.1/8
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was k...
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The Bowery

1932

Dancers in the Dark
4.8/5
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan...
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Dancers in the Dark

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

1932

Night World
6.7/12
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's st...
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Night World

1936

It Had to Happen
5.5/2
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
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It Had to Happen

1936

Yours for the Asking
1/1
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....
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Yours for the Asking

1931

Taxi!
6.8/30
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...
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Taxi!

1929

Side Street
5/4
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Side Street

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
0/0
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

1946

Mr. Ace
5.6/7
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
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Mr. Ace

1994

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
0/0
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and tele...
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1932

Under-Cover Man
4.5/2
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...
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Under-Cover Man

1952

Escape Route
5.3/7
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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Escape Route

1943

Stage Door Canteen
6.1/14
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...
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Stage Door Canteen

1935

Rumba
6/7
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
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Rumba

1950

Riviera Dream
0/0
This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French Rivie...
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Riviera Dream

1972

Hammersmith Is Out
6.2/6
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient off...
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Hammersmith Is Out

1935

The Fashion Side of Hollywood
6/1
Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).
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The Fashion Side of Hollywood

1972

Deadhead Miles
5.4/7
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non seq...
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Deadhead Miles

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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Breakdowns of 1940

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1939

The Lady's from Kentucky
0/0
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a...
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The Lady's from Kentucky

1931

Hush Money
0/0
Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.
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Hush Money

1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6/1
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's co...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1939

Invisible Stripes
6.119/21
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Invisible Stripes

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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Breakdowns of 1942

1964

For Those Who Think Young
5.2/9
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
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