Irving Pichel

Irving Pichel

Born: June 24, 1891
Died: July 13, 1954
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director. He married Violette Wilson, daughter of Jackson Stitt Wilson, a Methodist minister and Socialist mayor of Berkeley, California. Her sister was actress Viola Barry. The Pichels had three sons, Pichel Wilson, Julian Irving, and Marlowe Agnew.

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Martin Luther
Title: Martin Luther
Character: Brueck
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
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This Is Korea!
Title: This Is Korea!
Character: Narrator
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
John Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color.
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Santa Fe
Title: Santa Fe
Character: Harned
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
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The Maya Through the Ages
Title: The Maya Through the Ages
Character: Narrator
Released: August 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Documentary on the Mayan culture.
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Destination Moon
Title: Destination Moon
Character: Off Screen Narrator of Woody Woodpecker Cartoon (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
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The Great Rupert
Title: The Great Rupert
Character: Puzzled Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Title: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1949
Type: Movie
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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The Bride Wore Boots
Title: The Bride Wore Boots
Character: Steeplechase Announcer (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Rich and beautiful Southern heiress Sally Warren loves horse-racing and running her horse-farm although her husband of seven years hates the four-legged mammals. Spouse Jeff Warren is a successful author, Civil War scholar, and popular lecturer on the ladies club circuit. After Jeff buys aging twelve-year old nag Albert in the mistaken belief that he's a colt and Sally purchases a desk for her husband in the naive belief that it once belonged to Jefferson Davis, it's obvious that they have few interests in common. The squabbling is complicated by Jeff's jealousy of Sally's relationship with Lance Gale, her childhood friend, neighbor, and fellow horse breeder.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Title: Tomorrow Is Forever
Character: Radio Commentator (Voice)
Released: February 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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That Justice Be Done
Title: That Justice Be Done
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.
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Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Happy Land
Title: Happy Land
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
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 had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Peder (Innkeeper) (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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December 7th
Title: December 7th
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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The Battle of Midway
Title: The Battle of Midway
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Adult Huw (Voice)
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Title: Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Character: Self
Released: July 31, 1940
Type: Movie
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
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Old Hickory
Title: Old Hickory
Character: Bruce Renoir
Released: December 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States.
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Torture Ship
Title: Torture Ship
Character: Dr. Herbert Stander
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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The Great Commandment
Title: The Great Commandment
Character: Jesus Christ (voice)
Released: October 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Rio
Title: Rio
Character: Rocco
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Nicolas Zarnoff
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: General Carbajal
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Victor
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Topper Takes a Trip
Title: Topper Takes a Trip
Character: Prosecutor
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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Newsboys' Home
Title: Newsboys' Home
Character: Tom Davenport
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Professor
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Mr. Gorman
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Huger
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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High, Wide and Handsome
Title: High, Wide and Handsome
Character: Mr. Stark
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
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Armored Car
Title: Armored Car
Character: Walinsky
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Col. Leonard
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Simmons
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Down to the Sea
Title: Down to the Sea
Character: Alex Fotakis
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Sandor
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Special Agent K-7
Title: Special Agent K-7
Character: Lester Owens
Released: May 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
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The House of a Thousand Candles
Title: The House of a Thousand Candles
Character: Anton Sebastian
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Don't Gamble with Love
Title: Don't Gamble with Love
Character: Rick Collins
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Kraft
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: U.S. District Attorney
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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The Silver Streak
Title: The Silver Streak
Character: Bronte
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.
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I Am a Thief
Title: I Am a Thief
Character: Count Carlo Trentini
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Apollodorus
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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British Agent
Title: British Agent
Character: Sergei Pavlov
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
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She Was a Lady
Title: She Was a Lady
Character: Marco
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Daniel Burke
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Such Women Are Dangerous
Title: Such Women Are Dangerous
Character: Stanley
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Jake Bello
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Right To Romance
Title: The Right To Romance
Character: Dr. Beck
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Dr. Decosta
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Clayton's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
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 into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Before Dawn
Title: Before Dawn
Character: Police Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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The Story of Temple Drake
Title: The Story of Temple Drake
Character: Lee Goodwin
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
Title: Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
Character: Claudius
Released: April 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Corey
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
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The Woman Accused
Title: The Woman Accused
Character: District Attorney Clark
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As Glenda is packing to leave, she receives a threatening phone call from her obsessed, former lover Leo. Glenda confronts Leo and tells him that it's over. Leo, a high-powered attorney calls a hit man to have Jeffrey eliminated. Glenda knocks Leo over the head before he can give the hit man a name. Leo is dead. Glenda sneaks back into her apartment, goes off on the cruise with Jeffrey and pretends that all is swell. Leo's partner, Stephen Bessemer, suspects Glenda and follows her to the ship. Bessemer stages a mock trial aboard the ship and cleverly draws a confession from Glenda. Jeffrey, also an attorney, represents Glenda when she is arrested upon arriving on shore. A skeptical district attorney, and the fact that Jeffrey horsewhips the star witness (the hit man), combine to get Glenda completely off the hook.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Cliff Harkness
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
Title: The Billion Dollar Scandal
Character: Albert Griswold
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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Madame Butterfly
Title: Madame Butterfly
Character: Yamadori
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Rufe Waters
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Strange Justice
Title: Strange Justice
Character: L.D. Waters
Released: October 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.
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The Painted Woman
Title: The Painted Woman
Character: Robert Dunn, Lawyer
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island.
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Westward Passage
Title: Westward Passage
Character: Harry Ottendorf
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Forgotten Commandments
Title: Forgotten Commandments
Character: Prof. Marinoff
Released: May 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Character: Henry Holmes
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Two Kinds of Women
Title: Two Kinds of Women
Character: Senator Krull
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds herself caught up in an affair with a married man, whose wife soon commits suicide. Complications ensue.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Hardy Livingstone
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Robert Millet
Released: September 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Character: District Attorney Orville Mason
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Murder by the Clock
Title: Murder by the Clock
Character: Philip Endicott
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Caleb Evans
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.