Nat Pendleton
Nathaniel Greene 'Nat' Pendleton was an American former Olympic wrestler turned actor.
Two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champion (1914-1915) in the 175-lb. class at Columbia University, Pendleton graduated Class of 1916. He wrestled for the United States at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, earning a silver medal, losing only one match due to a controversial point decision. After the Games he became a professional wrestler and was a big fan favorite, which led to Hollywood.
In the 1920 census he was living in Manhattan with his first wife Juanita Alfonzo (age 22) and her brother Ramon Alfonso (age 13). He was working as a sports manager.
Pendleton was usually cast as a circus strongman, brutish thug, dumb cop, or dense buffoon, but he had a college degree and in 1933 wrote the script for Deception (1932), in which he starred - not surprisingly - as a wrestler.
Upon his death from a heart attack, his remains were interred at Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory in San Diego, California.
Nat Pendleton was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame inaugural class in 2006.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.725 |
| Birthday | 1895-08-07 |
| Place of Birth | Davenport, Iowa, USA |
| Also Known As | Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, Nathaniel Greene "Nat" Pendleton, |
1934
The Thin Man
7.5/451
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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The Thin Man
1942
Calling Dr. Gillespie
6.4/5
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
1939
At the Circus
6.3/87
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...
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At the Circus
1947
Scared to Death
4.2/30
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor...
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Scared to Death
1947
Buck Privates Come Home
6.3/25
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin...
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Buck Privates Come Home
1933
Baby Face
7.286/117
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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Baby Face
1933
Penthouse
6.7/18
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping l...
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Penthouse
1934
Manhattan Melodrama
7/66
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Manhattan Melodrama
1941
Buck Privates
6.6/64
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A...
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Buck Privates
1934
The Cat's-Paw
6.2/18
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as...
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The Cat's-Paw
1939
Another Thin Man
7.1/113
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Another Thin Man
1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
5.2/19
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1931
Blonde Crazy
7/41
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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Blonde Crazy
1936
The Great Ziegfeld
6.2/125
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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The Great Ziegfeld
1933
Lady for a Day
7.051/78
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...
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Lady for a Day
1940
Northwest Passage
6.3/52
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e...
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Northwest Passage
1939
It's a Wonderful World
6.4/41
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...
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It's a Wonderful World
1940
Phantom Raiders
6.1/15
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...
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Phantom Raiders
1932
The Sign of the Cross
6.1/38
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old C...
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The Sign of the Cross
1935
Reckless
5.3/12
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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Reckless
1938
Swing Your Lady
4.2/9
Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Jo...
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Swing Your Lady
1931
The Star Witness
6.786/14
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals...
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The Star Witness
1940
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.8/7
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
5.5/4
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1940
Flight Command
5.4/10
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression...
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Flight Command
1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
6/5
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1933
Child of Manhattan
8/3
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Danc...
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Child of Manhattan
1934
Death on the Diamond
7/4
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the v...
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Death on the Diamond
1932
Exposure
2/1
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to mak...
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Exposure
1937
Under Cover of Night
5.7/3
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Under Cover of Night
1932
Flesh
5.6/13
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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Flesh
1942
Jail House Blues
0/0
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
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Jail House Blues
1936
The Garden Murder Case
5.5/12
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwi...
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The Garden Murder Case
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
5.8/7
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...
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Arsène Lupin Returns
1936
Trapped by Television
6.4/4
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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Trapped by Television
1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
5.6/13
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1938
Young Dr. Kildare
6.5/8
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k...
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Young Dr. Kildare
1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
6.1/8
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh...
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Calling Dr. Kildare
1933
The Nuisance
5/4
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, un...
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The Nuisance
1932
A Fool's Advice
5.5/2
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
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A Fool's Advice
1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
10/1
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1940
The Golden Fleecing
5.3/6
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Golden Fleecing
1933
College Coach
4.3/9
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
1938
Fast Company
5.4/8
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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Fast Company
1933
Whistling in the Dark
5.2/4
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Whistling in the Dark
1934
Straight Is the Way
5.5/2
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
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Straight Is the Way
1943
Swing Fever
5/3
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Fever
1934
Sing and Like it
4.3/3
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
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Sing and Like it
1934
Fugitive Lovers
6/5
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels...
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Fugitive Lovers
1934
Lazy River
7/1
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Lazy River
1934
The Gay Bride
5.8/8
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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The Gay Bride
1936
Sworn Enemy
5.3/3
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Sworn Enemy
1933
Goldie Gets Along
4/2
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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Goldie Gets Along
1939
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
5/2
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1937
Life Begins in College
0/0
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on...
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Life Begins in College
1932
The Night Club Lady
6.2/3
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
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The Night Club Lady
1930
The Big Pond
5.875/8
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.
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The Big Pond
1939
On Borrowed Time
7.5/23
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future...
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On Borrowed Time
1934
The Defense Rests
7/7
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Defense Rests
1933
I'm No Angel
6.3/48
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...
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I'm No Angel
1938
The Crowd Roars
6.5/6
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do...
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The Crowd Roars
1933
The Chief
0/0
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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The Chief
1935
Calm Yourself
4.5/2
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Calm Yourself
1939
6,000 Enemies
6/6
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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6,000 Enemies
1935
Baby Face Harrington
4.8/5
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....
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Baby Face Harrington
1932
Hell-Fire Austin
4/1
Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him a...
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Hell-Fire Austin
1930
Crazy House
4/2
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.
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Crazy House
1934
The Girl from Missouri
6.9/11
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire...
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The Girl from Missouri
1936
Sing Me a Love Song
0/0
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls fo...
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Sing Me a Love Song
1936
Two in a Crowd
0/0
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress...
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Two in a Crowd
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!
1930
The Last of the Duanes
3/1
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t...
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The Last of the Duanes
1937
Song of the City
6/1
A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family.
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Song of the City
1937
Gangway
7/1
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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Gangway
1935
Times Square Lady
6/2
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...
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Times Square Lady
1931
Manhattan Parade
2/3
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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Manhattan Parade
1935
Here Comes the Band
5/1
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie...
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Here Comes the Band
1931
The Secret Witness
3/2
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor belie...
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The Secret Witness
1935
It's in the Air
5/2
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu...
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It's in the Air
1932
The Tenderfoot
6/1
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and p...
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The Tenderfoot
1935
Murder in the Fleet
5/2
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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Murder in the Fleet
1933
Parachute Jumper
6.1/18
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Parachute Jumper
1938
The Shopworn Angel
7.1/16
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...
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The Shopworn Angel
1932
Horse Feathers
6.9/220
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Da...
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Horse Feathers
1946
Death Valley
5/2
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ...
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Death Valley
1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
5/1
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape...
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
1932
The Big Timer
3.5/4
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
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The Big Timer
1940
New Moon
6.8/6
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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New Moon
1932
Attorney for the Defense
6/3
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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Attorney for the Defense
1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
4.8/13
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1929
The Laughing Lady
6/2
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of he...
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The Laughing Lady
1932
The Beast of the City
5.9/22
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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The Beast of the City
1931
The Ruling Voice
6/7
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
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The Ruling Voice
1926
Let's Get Married
0/0
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout o...
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Let's Get Married
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
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
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
1938
The Chaser
6/1
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the tr...
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The Chaser
1930
The Sea Wolf
0/0
George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.
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The Sea Wolf
1932
Deception
0/0
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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Deception
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3/3
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1924
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
0/0
A young Indiana schoolteacher finds himself embroiled in local conflicts when he falls in love with an indentured servant and must discover the identi...
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1931
The Spirit of Notre Dame
6.3/3
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
1942
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
5.3/3
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1940
The Ghost Comes Home
5/2
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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The Ghost Comes Home
1965
The World of Abbott and Costello
6.3/7
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello...
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The World of Abbott and Costello
1932
By Whose Hand?
6/4
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped kill...
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By Whose Hand?
1936
The Luckiest Girl in the World
7.5/1
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
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