
Pat O’Brien
Pat O’Brien (born William Joseph Patrick O'Brien) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. He was a star during the first several years of his film career, the height of his popularity being during the 1930s and 1940s.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.228 |
Birthday | 1899-11-10 |
Place of Birth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
Also Known As | William Joseph Patrick O'Brien, Пэт О’Брайен, |

1959

Some Like It Hot
8.093/3531
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

1932

American Madness
7.1/40
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank r...
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American Madness

2005

Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?
8.3/3
Documentary covering the Warner Bros. James Cagney /Pat O'Brien classic "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), hosted by film historian Rudy Behlmer.
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Angels with Dirty Faces: Whaddya Hear? Whaddya Say?

1930

My Mistake
0/0
A hired gunman inadvertently targets an undertaker as his next victim, who talks the killer into leaving the undertaker's business card whenever he do...
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My Mistake

1947

Riff-Raff
6.1/20
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.
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Riff-Raff

1981

Ragtime
7/164
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime

1940

Castle on the Hudson
6.8/12
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Castle on the Hudson

1946

Crack-Up
5.6/29
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Crack-Up

1938

Angels with Dirty Faces
7.539/321
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes...
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Angels with Dirty Faces

1978

The End
5.5/61
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his...
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The End

1951

The People Against O'Hara
5.7/26
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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The People Against O'Hara

1931

The Front Page
6.565/69
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for...
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The Front Page

1943

The Iron Major
5.8/5
William 'Frank' Cavanaugh is a top football coach who gave up his career to enter WWI where he became a hero. After the war he went back to coaching w...
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The Iron Major

1948

The Boy with Green Hair
6.2/61
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new c...
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The Boy with Green Hair

1940

Knute Rockne All American
6/23
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Knute Rockne All American

1933

Bombshell
6.5/52
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Bombshell

1943

Bombardier
5.4/18
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precisio...
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Bombardier

1970

The Phynx
3.5/8
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
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The Phynx

1951

Criminal Lawyer
6.7/3
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
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Criminal Lawyer

1943

His Butler's Sister
7.143/7
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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His Butler's Sister

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

1950

Johnny One-Eye
4.9/8
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long si...
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Johnny One-Eye

1937

San Quentin
6.5/28
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery....
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San Quentin

1944

Secret Command
6.8/4
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jef...
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Secret Command

1933

Bureau of Missing Persons
5.6/16
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Bureau of Missing Persons

1940

The Fighting 69th
5.4/24
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove hi...
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The Fighting 69th

1969

The Over the Hill Gang
5.6/10
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
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The Over the Hill Gang

1958

The Last Hurrah
7.1/57
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...
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The Last Hurrah

1934

Flirtation Walk
5.5/13
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...
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Flirtation Walk

1934

Here Comes the Navy
5.8/19
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Here Comes the Navy

1936

Ceiling Zero
5.6/15
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and d...
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Ceiling Zero

1940

Torrid Zone
6.3/8
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Torrid Zone

1937

The Great O'Malley
6.7/8
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien...
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The Great O'Malley

1950

The Fireball
5.8/9
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambit...
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The Fireball

1936

China Clipper
5.6/8
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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China Clipper

1932

Virtue
6.8/12
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets...
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Virtue

1942

Flight Lieutenant
6/2
A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.
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Flight Lieutenant

1957

Kill Me Tomorrow
5.2/9
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
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Kill Me Tomorrow

1942

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

1933

Laughter in Hell
1/1
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Laughter in Hell

1981

James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
10/1
During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route...
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James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy

1932

Air Mail
5.5/8
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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Air Mail

1942

The Navy Comes Through
5.6/9
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
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The Navy Comes Through

1939

The Kid from Kokomo
6/1
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career sea...
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The Kid from Kokomo

1934

Twenty Million Sweethearts
6/6
Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.
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Twenty Million Sweethearts

1939

Slightly Honorable
5.1/8
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Slightly Honorable

1938

Boy Meets Girl
6.2/5
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie abo...
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Boy Meets Girl

1933

The World Gone Mad
4.3/9
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
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The World Gone Mad

1932

The Final Edition
5/1
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
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The Final Edition

1934

Gambling Lady
6.3/17
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks ou...
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Gambling Lady

1934

The Personality Kid
4.2/5
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Personality Kid

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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'Til We Meet Again

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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Swingtime in the Movies

1940

Flowing Gold
7/7
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires hi...
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Flowing Gold

1938

Cowboy from Brooklyn
4/1
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn

1931

Honor Among Lovers
5.7/12
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Honor Among Lovers

1933

Destination Unknown
0/0
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Destination Unknown

1932

Scandal for Sale
7/1
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Scandal for Sale

1932

Hell's House
5.3/26
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Hell's House

1932

The Strange Case of Clara Deane
6/1
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a crimina...
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane

1931

Flying High
4.8/4
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Flying High

1931

Consolation Marriage
6.1/10
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
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Consolation Marriage

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

1933

College Coach
4.15/10
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a g...
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College Coach

1945

Having Wonderful Crime
6.3/6
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
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Having Wonderful Crime

1954

Jubilee Trail
4.813/8
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with chi...
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Jubilee Trail

1937

Slim
6.3/3
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love...
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Slim

1936

Public Enemy's Wife
5.8/6
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claim...
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Public Enemy's Wife

1954

Ring of Fear
5/6
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
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Ring of Fear

1935

Page Miss Glory
6.3/6
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Page Miss Glory

1972

The Adventures of Nick Carter
1/1
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
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The Adventures of Nick Carter

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

1938

Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov...
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Garden of the Moon

1935

The Irish in Us
7.7/6
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
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The Irish in Us

1962

Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe
0/0
Documentary on the life and career of Babe Ruth.
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Babe Ruth Story: That Ever Livin' Babe

1936

I Married a Doctor
4.7/3
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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I Married a Doctor

1935

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

1944

Marine Raiders
6.8/5
A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
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Marine Raiders

1935

Stars Over Broadway
5.2/4
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Stars Over Broadway

1935

In Caliente
6.3/6
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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In Caliente

1939

Off the Record
6/4
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Off the Record

1945

Man Alive
5.1/5
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Man Alive

1939

Indianapolis Speedway
5/7
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Indianapolis Speedway

1938

Women Are Like That
5.7/3
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her...
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Women Are Like That

1934

I've Got Your Number
6/5
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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I've Got Your Number

1980

Scout's Honor
5.5/2
Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best...
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Scout's Honor

1934

I Sell Anything
4.5/4
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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I Sell Anything

1948

Fighting Father Dunne
6/1
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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Fighting Father Dunne

1965

Town Tamer
6.4/9
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruc...
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Town Tamer

2013

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
5.5/4
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll...
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

1940

Escape to Glory
6/1
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by plac...
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Escape to Glory

1937

Back in Circulation
5.3/3
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express get...
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Back in Circulation

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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Out Where the Stars Begin

1972

Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
8/1
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall...
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol

1930

Compliments of the Season
5/3
On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's fro...
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Compliments of the Season

1956

Inside Detroit
6/1
Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vick...
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Inside Detroit

1935

Devil Dogs of the Air
6.4/5
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
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Devil Dogs of the Air

1931

Personal Maid
3/1
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
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Personal Maid

1942

Two Yanks in Trinidad
2/2
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the arm...
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Two Yanks in Trinidad

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

1952

Okinawa
4.8/6
On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces...
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Okinawa

1946

Perilous Holiday
0/0
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes...
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Perilous Holiday

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

1947

Blow-Ups of 1947
6.3/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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Blow-Ups of 1947

1930

The Voice of Hollywood
0/0
The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary Pickf...
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The Voice of Hollywood

2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
8.5/12
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

1931

Crimes Square
0/0
When a crook decides to go straight, his jealous cast off moll exposes him to the police.
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Crimes Square

1935

A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
5.2/5
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casti...
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

1932

Flaming Gold
5.5/4
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
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Flaming Gold

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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Things You Never See on the Screen

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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Breakdowns of 1937

1939

Breakdowns of 1939
7/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Breakdowns of 1939

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

1962

The Road to Hong Kong
5.7/30
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust...
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The Road to Hong Kong

1939

The Night of Nights
0/0
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...
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The Night of Nights

1936

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6/1
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1977

Billy Jack Goes to Washington
6.3/11
After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state gov...
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Billy Jack Goes to Washington

1976

Kiss Me, Kill Me
7/2
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
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Kiss Me, Kill Me

1932

Hollywood Speaks
0/0
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainm...
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Hollywood Speaks

1934

Screen Snapshots No. 11
0/0
Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of ches...
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Screen Snapshots No. 11

1959

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
9/1
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

1973

Amanda Fallon
0/0
A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.
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Amanda Fallon

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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The Sky's the Limit

1934

Studio Highlights
0/0
A short promotional film about Ruby Keeler and her upcoming film "Flirtation Walk." It provides a brief look at her career on Broadway, early films, a...
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Studio Highlights

1999

Dill Scallion
6.8/4
School bus driver Dill Scallion dreams of becoming a famous country music singer. He sings from his heart and makes up his own dance, the 'Scallion Sh...
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