Minor Watson
Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor. He appeared in 111 movies made between 1913 and 1956. His credits included Boys Town (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Kings Row (1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bewitched (1945), The Virginian (1946), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.782 |
| Birthday | 1889-12-22 |
| Place of Birth | Marianna, Arkansas, USA |
| Also Known As | Minor S. Watson, |
1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
7.02/198
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Woman of the Year
6.9/139
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Woman of the Year
1955
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4.2/5
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brother...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
6.6/17
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is kille...
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Charlie Chan in Paris
1937
Dead End
6.961/116
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...
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Dead End
1956
Trapeze
6.259/85
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a...
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Trapeze
1949
The File on Thelma Jordon
6.535/57
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her...
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The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
Beyond the Forest
6.806/49
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. S...
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Beyond the Forest
1945
Bewitched
5.3/20
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched
1938
Boys Town
6.7/81
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...
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Boys Town
1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.108/88
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
6.4/17
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major l...
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The Jackie Robinson Story
1943
Guadalcanal Diary
5.6/19
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca...
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Guadalcanal Diary
1942
Gentleman Jim
7.14/57
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...
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Gentleman Jim
1941
Moon Over Miami
6.1/14
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich...
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Moon Over Miami
1941
Western Union
6/72
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern...
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Western Union
1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
6.8/20
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1944
The Falcon Out West
5.5/11
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, t...
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The Falcon Out West
1942
The Big Shot
6.25/18
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunt...
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The Big Shot
1939
Maisie
4.7/7
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman...
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Maisie
1940
Hidden Gold
6/2
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may...
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Hidden Gold
1952
My Son John
5.2/8
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
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My Son John
1942
Kings Row
7.153/36
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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Kings Row
1952
The Star
7.2/39
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.
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The Star
1940
Young People
4.6/8
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f...
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Young People
1937
That Certain Woman
6.1/13
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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That Certain Woman
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6.5/15
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1941
Birth of the Blues
5.3/7
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...
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Birth of the Blues
1950
Mister 880
6.963/27
The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has ama...
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Mister 880
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
6.4/8
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
1938
While New York Sleeps
0/0
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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While New York Sleeps
1938
Of Human Hearts
5.8/20
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who minis...
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Of Human Hearts
1941
Mr. District Attorney
6.2/5
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Mr. District Attorney
1935
Pursuit
6/3
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Ru...
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Pursuit
1935
Mary Jane's Pa
6/3
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...
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Mary Jane's Pa
1938
Stablemates
4.5/2
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Stablemates
1946
Boys' Ranch
6.5/4
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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Boys' Ranch
1940
Viva Cisco Kid
5.5/4
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to...
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Viva Cisco Kid
1944
That's My Baby!
4.5/2
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton P...
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That's My Baby!
1940
Gallant Sons
7.2/5
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Gallant Sons
1935
Age of Indiscretion
5.2/5
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with t...
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Age of Indiscretion
1948
A Southern Yankee
5.2/4
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civi...
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A Southern Yankee
1937
Saturday's Heroes
7/1
College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.
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Saturday's Heroes
1939
The Llano Kid
0/0
Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband. T...
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The Llano Kid
1937
When's Your Birthday?
4/1
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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When's Your Birthday?
1952
Face to Face
5.7/3
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a...
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Face to Face
1938
Love, Honor and Behave
3.5/4
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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Love, Honor and Behave
1941
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
5/1
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her ro...
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
7/1
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Here I Am a Stranger
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
1939
The Flying Irishman
4.6/5
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight...
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The Flying Irishman
1937
The Woman I Love
0/0
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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The Woman I Love
1943
Happy Land
6.2/3
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he h...
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Happy Land
1931
24 Hours
5.5/2
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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24 Hours
1945
You Came Along
7/2
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...
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You Came Along
1951
As Young as You Feel
6.735/17
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant...
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As Young as You Feel
1939
Television Spy
5/1
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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Television Spy
1943
Yanks Ahoy
6/1
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
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Yanks Ahoy
1951
Little Egypt
0/0
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Little Egypt
1940
20 Mule Team
6/3
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will s...
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20 Mule Team
1944
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
0/0
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1939
Stand Up and Fight
5.8/4
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Stand Up and Fight
1937
Navy Blue and Gold
5.9/7
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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Navy Blue and Gold
1939
The Hardys Ride High
6/3
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million...
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The Hardys Ride High
1939
News Is Made at Night
4.5/2
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o...
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News Is Made at Night
1940
Rangers of Fortune
5/1
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small to...
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Rangers of Fortune
1943
Princess O'Rourke
6.4/19
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Princess O'Rourke
1941
The Parson of Panamint
5/3
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the tow...
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The Parson of Panamint
1943
Power of the Press
6.2/10
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e...
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Power of the Press
1935
Lady Tubbs
0/0
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
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Lady Tubbs
1956
The Ambassador's Daughter
4.3/7
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
1934
The Pursuit of Happiness
5.8/6
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local milit...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
Babbitt
6.5/4
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George...
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Babbitt
1952
Untamed Frontier
7.2/6
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love...
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Untamed Frontier
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
6.6/104
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th...
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They Died with Their Boots On
1956
The Rawhide Years
5.5/13
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galen...
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The Rawhide Years
1955
Ten Wanted Men
5.8/25
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power...
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Ten Wanted Men
1936
The Longest Night
5.7/2
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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The Longest Night
1936
Rose of the Rancho
0/0
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of C...
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Rose of the Rancho
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
8.2/2
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...
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The Remarkable Andrew
1938
Touchdown, Army
0/0
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Touchdown, Army
1935
Annapolis Farewell
0/0
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his da...
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Annapolis Farewell
1942
To the Shores of Tripoli
5.1/14
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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To the Shores of Tripoli
1941
The Monster and the Girl
5.796/27
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape...
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The Monster and the Girl
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7.039/51
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1944
Shadows in the Night
5.5/1
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
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Shadows in the Night
1943
Crash Dive
6.1/22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...
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Crash Dive
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Mission to Moscow
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6/1
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1945
A Bell for Adano
5.5/10
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without int...
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A Bell for Adano
1945
God Is My Co-Pilot
7/7
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch...
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God Is My Co-Pilot
1953
Roar of the Crowd
0/0
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give...
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Roar of the Crowd
1944
Here Come the Waves
5/7
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabo...
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Here Come the Waves
1937
Checkers
0/0
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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Checkers
1939
Boy Friend
0/0
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing ther...
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Boy Friend
1946
Courage of Lassie
5.7/31
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from...
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Courage of Lassie
1913
Love Incognito
0/0
Love Incognito
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Love Incognito
1913
Day by Day
0/0
Day by Day film
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Day by Day
1913
Cupid and Three
0/0
Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved wh...
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Cupid and Three
1913
Dollars-Pounds-Sense
0/0
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him unle...
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Dollars-Pounds-Sense
1951
Bright Victory
6.9/16
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Bright Victory
1942
Frisco Lil
8/2
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love wit...
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Frisco Lil
1935
Mister Dynamite
6/1
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
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Mister Dynamite
1945
Saratoga Trunk
5.6/14
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostra...
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Saratoga Trunk
Hollywood Classic Special
0/0
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Hollywood Classic Special
1944
Christmas Holiday
6.4/29
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin ma...
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