Frank M. Thomas

Frank M. Thomas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Marion Thomas (July 13, 1889 – November 25, 1989), was an American character actor of stage, screen and television fame. He and his wife, actress Mona Bruns, both lived to 100 years old. He died the day before her 90th birthday; she died 11 years later. Their son was Frankie Thomas Thomas' parents were Jesse and Virginia Thomas. He first appeared on Broadway in 1914. Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s. His best-known films were We Who Are About To Die (1937), A Man to Remember (1938), A Shot In the Dark (1941), Desert Trail (1942), and No Place for a Lady (1943). His last screen appearance was in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976). He performed frequently on television from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was president (Shepherd) of The Lambs (1962-63). His film appearances were so prolific at one point in his career that, in 1937 alone, he appeared in no fewer than 21 films.

  • Title: Frank M. Thomas
  • Popularity: 2.118
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-07-12
  • Place of Birth: Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frank Thomas, Frank Thomas Sr., Frank Marion Thomas
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Frank M. Thomas Movies

  • 1943
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    Mountain Rhythm

    Mountain Rhythm

    1 1943 HD

    The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the...

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  • 1942
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    The Postman Didn't Ring

    The Postman Didn't Ring

    1 1942 HD

    Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

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  • 1938
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    This Marriage Business

    This Marriage Business

    4.8 1938 HD

    A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.

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  • 1942
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    Reap the Wild Wind

    Reap the Wild Wind

    6.4 1942 HD

    The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...

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  • 1942
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    A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

    A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

    5.7 1942 HD

    A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

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  • 1941
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    Dangerously They Live

    Dangerously They Live

    5.9 1941 HD

    A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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  • 1940
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    Brigham Young

    Brigham Young

    4.4 1940 HD

    Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

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  • 1939
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    They Made Her a Spy

    They Made Her a Spy

    6 1939 HD

    When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

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  • 1936
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    The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

    The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

    6 1936 HD

    A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

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  • 1942
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    Sunset on the Desert

    Sunset on the Desert

    5.8 1942 HD

    Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he...

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  • 1939
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    1 1939 HD

    The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.

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  • 1939
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    The Mysterious Miss X

    The Mysterious Miss X

    5.3 1939 HD

    After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.

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  • 1939
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    Society Lawyer

    Society Lawyer

    5.1 1939 HD

    Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help...

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  • 1936
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    Grand Jury

    Grand Jury

    7 1936 HD

    When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

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  • 1937
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    Racing Lady

    Racing Lady

    5.3 1937 HD

    A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...

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  • 1939
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    The Rookie Cop

    The Rookie Cop

    5.3 1939 HD

    A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd...

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  • 1934
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    Wednesday's Child

    Wednesday's Child

    3 1934 HD

    A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.

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  • 1937
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    Behind The Headlines

    Behind The Headlines

    6.2 1937 HD

    A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

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  • 1939
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    They All Come Out

    They All Come Out

    5.6 1939 HD

    A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...

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  • 1937
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    Criminal Lawyer

    Criminal Lawyer

    5.9 1937 HD

    Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    9 1938 HD

    A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at...

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  • 1939
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    Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

    Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

    5 1939 HD

    An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

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  • 1938
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    Go Chase Yourself

    Go Chase Yourself

    4.5 1938 HD

    When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

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  • 1939
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    Disbarred

    Disbarred

    6 1939 HD

    The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing...

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  • 1941
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    Life with Henry

    Life with Henry

    5 1941 HD

    Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

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  • 1938
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    Law of the Underworld

    Law of the Underworld

    5.3 1938 HD

    A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution

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  • 1940
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    Shooting High

    Shooting High

    8 1940 HD

    A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

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  • 1941
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    Among the Living

    Among the Living

    6.074 1941 HD

    A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.

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  • 1936
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    Wanted: Jane Turner

    Wanted: Jane Turner

    5.3 1936 HD

    Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

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  • 1937
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    Meet the Missus

    Meet the Missus

    4 1937 HD

    A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.

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  • 1938
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    Maid's Night Out

    Maid's Night Out

    6.2 1938 HD

    A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom...

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  • 1937
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    Breakfast for Two

    Breakfast for Two

    5.9 1937 HD

    After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and...

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  • 1937
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    They Wanted to Marry

    They Wanted to Marry

    5 1937 HD

    Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She...

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  • 1938
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    Crime Ring

    Crime Ring

    4.7 1938 HD

    Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

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  • 1937
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    Forty Naughty Girls

    Forty Naughty Girls

    5.2 1937 HD

    Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

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  • 1940
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    Chad Hanna

    Chad Hanna

    6 1940 HD

    Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

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  • 1939
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    Saga of Death Valley

    Saga of Death Valley

    6.2 1939 HD

    When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker...

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  • 1938
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    A Man to Remember

    A Man to Remember

    6.5 1938 HD

    On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

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  • 1937
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    Quick Money

    Quick Money

    4 1937 HD

    Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....

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  • 1937
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    Danger Patrol

    Danger Patrol

    5.3 1937 HD

    An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

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  • 1938
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    Crashing Hollywood

    Crashing Hollywood

    5.8 1938 HD

    A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

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  • 1938
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    Everybody's Doing It

    Everybody's Doing It

    5 1938 HD

    Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

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  • 1938
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    Night Spot

    Night Spot

    4.7 1938 HD

    A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality...

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  • 1937
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    Don't Tell the Wife

    Don't Tell the Wife

    1 1937 HD

    After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

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  • 1936
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    M'Liss

    M'Liss

    5 1936 HD

    The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young...

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  • 1937
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    The Man Who Found Himself

    The Man Who Found Himself

    7 1937 HD

    Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it...

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  • 1954
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    The Shadow

    The Shadow

    4.5 1954 HD

    Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation....

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  • 1937
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    We Who Are About to Die

    We Who Are About to Die

    6.8 1937 HD

    John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

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  • 1937
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    The Big Shot

    The Big Shot

    5 1937 HD

    A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.

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  • 1937
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    You Can't Buy Luck

    You Can't Buy Luck

    4.5 1937 HD

    When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

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  • 1941
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    Arkansas Judge

    Arkansas Judge

    1 1941 HD

    Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.

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  • 1938
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    Smashing the Rackets

    Smashing the Rackets

    5.5 1938 HD

    Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....

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  • 1937
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    High Flyers

    High Flyers

    7 1937 HD

    Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving...

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  • 1939
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    Secret Service of the Air

    Secret Service of the Air

    5.8 1939 HD

    Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal...

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  • 1936
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    Mummy's Boys

    Mummy's Boys

    4.7 1936 HD

    Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

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  • 1950
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    The Sleeping City

    The Sleeping City

    5.8 1950 HD

    A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even as to a possible motive. Inspector Al Gordon (John...

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  • 1939
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    Idiot's Delight

    Idiot's Delight

    5.7 1939 HD

    A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

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  • 1941
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    Three Sons o' Guns

    Three Sons o' Guns

    5 1941 HD

    Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

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  • 1939
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    Two Thoroughbreds

    Two Thoroughbreds

    2 1939 HD

    A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

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  • 1939
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    Bachelor Mother

    Bachelor Mother

    7.1 1939 HD

    Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    7.9 1939 HD

    Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...

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  • 1939
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    Grand Jury Secrets

    Grand Jury Secrets

    1 1939 HD

    A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.

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  • 1941
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    Sierra Sue

    Sierra Sue

    1 1941 HD

    To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until...

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  • 1940
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    Women Without Names

    Women Without Names

    4.8 1940 HD

    Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

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  • 1942
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    The Great Man's Lady

    The Great Man's Lady

    6.3 1942 HD

    In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers)...

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  • 1938
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    Blind Alibi

    Blind Alibi

    5.8 1938 HD

    A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

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  • 1936
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    Without Orders

    Without Orders

    6 1936 HD

    At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns...

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  • 1941
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    A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark

    5.2 1941 HD

    A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

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  • 1940
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    Lillian Russell

    Lillian Russell

    6.1 1940 HD

    Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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  • 1936
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    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    Don't Turn 'em Loose

    4.8 1936 HD

    A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast...

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  • 1940
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    Maryland

    Maryland

    6.2 1940 HD

    A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his...

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  • 1940
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    City of Chance

    City of Chance

    5.2 1940 HD

    Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

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  • 1953
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    Horace Mann's Miracle

    Horace Mann's Miracle

    1 1953 HD

    In the 1850s, the small mid western college of Antioch faces going out of business unless it changes school policy and takes on wealthy...

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  • 1939
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    Geronimo

    Geronimo

    5 1939 HD

    The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud...

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  • 1941
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    Wyoming Wildcat

    Wyoming Wildcat

    1 1941 HD

    A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted man once again.

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  • 1942
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    Sunset Serenade

    Sunset Serenade

    5.5 1942 HD

    Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl....

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  • 1942
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    Wild Bill Hickok Rides

    Wild Bill Hickok Rides

    4.7 1942 HD

    The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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  • 1942
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    Apache Trail

    Apache Trail

    6.4 1942 HD

    The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the...

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  • 1937
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    China Passage

    China Passage

    5.5 1937 HD

    Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on...

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  • 1937
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    We're on the Jury

    We're on the Jury

    5.8 1937 HD

    A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

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  • 1937
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    The Soldier and the Lady

    The Soldier and the Lady

    6.5 1937 HD

    In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...

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  • 1940
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    High School

    High School

    5.5 1940 HD

    A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...

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  • 1942
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    Obliging Young Lady

    Obliging Young Lady

    5 1942 HD

    A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

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  • 1936
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    The Big Game

    The Big Game

    5.8 1936 HD

    A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

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  • 1939
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    $1,000 a Touchdown

    $1,000 a Touchdown

    2 1939 HD

    A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

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  • 1943
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    No Place for a Lady

    No Place for a Lady

    6 1943 HD

    A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

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  • 1938
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    The Saint in New York

    The Saint in New York

    6.2 1938 HD

    A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through...

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  • 1938
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    Joy of Living

    Joy of Living

    5.7 1938 HD

    Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her...

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  • 1917
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    Nearly Married

    Nearly Married

    1 1917 HD

    Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.

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  • 1936
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    The Last Outlaw

    The Last Outlaw

    5.5 1936 HD

    After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

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  • 1943
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    Hello, Frisco, Hello

    Hello, Frisco, Hello

    6.2 1943 HD

    In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

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  • 1942
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    Eyes in the Night

    Eyes in the Night

    6 1942 HD

    Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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  • 1940
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    Queen of the Mob

    Queen of the Mob

    4.5 1940 HD

    Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

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  • 1937
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    The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    6 1937 HD

    The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1949
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    Martin Kane, Private Eye

    Martin Kane, Private Eye

    5 1949 HD

    Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    5.6 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    4.333 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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