Frank Reicher

Frank Reicher

Born: December 2, 1875
Died: January 19, 1965
in Munich, German Empire [now Germany]
Frank Reicher (December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American stage and film actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film King Kong.

Reicher made his Broadway debut the year he came to America playing Lord Tarquin in Harrison Fiske's production of Becky Sharp, a comedy by Langdon Mitchell based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. His early career was spent in legitimate theater on and off Broadway. He was head of the Brooklyn Stock Company when Jacob P. Adler performed The Merchant of Venice in Yiddish while the rest of the cast remained in English. Reicher was for a number of years affiliated with the Little Theatre on West Forty-Fourth Street as an actor and manager and would remain active on Broadway as actor, director or producer well into the 1920s. On stage, Reicher starred in such plays as the first Broadway production of Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (as the cashier), and the original production of Percy MacKaye's The Scarecrow (in the title role).

Frank Reicher is probably more familiar to modern audiences as a supporting character actor in films. He began his cinema career with an uncredited role in the 1915 film The Case for Becky and would go on to work in over two hundred motion pictures. He is probably best remembered for playing the character of Captain Englehorn in King Kong and The Son of Kong, and for his work in such films as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950). His last Hollywood role was in the very first theatrical Superman movie, Superman and the Mole Men, in 1951.

Frank Reicher died at a hospital in Inglewood, California, aged 89. He was survived by his sister and a brother. His interment was at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Movies for Frank Reicher...

Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Superman and the Mole-Men
Title: Superman and the Mole-Men
Character: Hospital Superintendent
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
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The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Count Eckhardt
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Character: Darius 'Doc' Green
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Village Barber
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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Barbary Pirate
Title: Barbary Pirate
Character: Cathcart
Released: November 10, 1949
Type: Movie
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.
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The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Major
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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I, Jane Doe
Title: I, Jane Doe
Character: Doctor
Released: May 25, 1948
Type: Movie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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Carson City Raiders
Title: Carson City Raiders
Character: Razor the Barber
Released: May 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Carson City Raiders is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) wants to help Nugget Clark (Eddy Waller) save his freight line. Meanwhile, Dave Starky (Harold Goodwin) is impersonating the outlaw Fargo Jack (Steve Darrell). But why? There's a lot of confusion in Carson City in this Western about hidden identities. Who is truly behind the gang of stagecoach robbers?
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Title: Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Character: Dr. MacKenzie
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
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Escape Me Never
Title: Escape Me Never
Character: The Minister
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Character: Maasdam
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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Violence
Title: Violence
Character: Pop, apartment concierge
Released: May 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
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Yankee Fakir
Title: Yankee Fakir
Character: H.W. Randall
Released: April 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
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Home in Oklahoma
Title: Home in Oklahoma
Character: Jason Cragmyle
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Dr. Chuter (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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The Shadow Returns
Title: The Shadow Returns
Character: Michael Hasdon
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
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A Guy Could Change
Title: A Guy Could Change
Character: Doctor
Released: January 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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The Tiger Woman
Title: The Tiger Woman
Character: Coroner
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Dr. Rose (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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Phantoms, Inc.
Title: Phantoms, Inc.
Character: Philip Kenneson, Sr.
Released: June 9, 1945
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.
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A Medal for Benny
Title: A Medal for Benny
Character: Father Bly (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
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Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
Title: Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
Character: Harper
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.
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The Strange Mr. Gregory
Title: The Strange Mr. Gregory
Character: William Riker, the Butler
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The title character, played by Edmund Lowe, is a famous magician who fakes his own death -- then reappears as his nonexistent twin brother. It's all part of Gregory's master scheme to pin his "murder" on innocent John Randall, the husband of Ellen, the woman Gregory loves.
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The Big Bonanza
Title: The Big Bonanza
Character: Dr. Ballou
Released: December 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
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House of Frankenstein
Title: House of Frankenstein
Character: Frederick Ullman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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The Conspirators
Title: The Conspirators
Character: Casino Attendant (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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The Mummy's Ghost
Title: The Mummy's Ghost
Character: Prof. Matthew Norman
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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Gildersleeve's Ghost
Title: Gildersleeve's Ghost
Character: Dr. Wells
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Professor Schmidt
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Captain America
Title: Captain America
Character: Lyman
Released: February 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.
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Tornado
Title: Tornado
Character: Linden, Sr.
Released: August 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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Bomber's Moon
Title: Bomber's Moon
Character: Dr. Hartman
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Rudick - the Assasin
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Colonel Gerold (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: General von Koestrich - German ambassador (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
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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Plan for Destruction
Title: Plan for Destruction
Character: Karl Ernst Haushofer
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organization for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Professor Matthew Norman
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Night Monster
Title: Night Monster
Character: Dr. Timmons
Released: October 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Title: Scattergood Survives a Murder
Character: Thaddeus Quentin
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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Secret Enemies
Title: Secret Enemies
Character: Henry Bremmer
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
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The Gay Sisters
Title: The Gay Sisters
Character: Dr. Thomas Bigelow
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Title: Beyond the Blue Horizon
Character: Sneath
Released: June 25, 1942
Type: Movie
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woman, she is taken back to the United States to claim her inheritance. There are several people, with vested interests, who stand to gain something if she is shown not to be the missing heir.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Title: The Mystery of Marie Roget
Character: Magistrate
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Polish Official (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Fritz
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Jarvis, Goodwin's Butler
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Professor Baumer
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Shining Victory
Title: Shining Victory
Character: Dr. Esterhazy
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
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The Nurse's Secret
Title: The Nurse's Secret
Character: Wiley Henderson
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: Captain
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Edvaard Kreindling
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Festival Committee Member (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Dr. Crattan
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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The Man I Married
Title: The Man I Married
Character: Friehof
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: President
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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South to Karanga
Title: South to Karanga
Character: Dr. Greenleaf
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Police Official (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Typhoon
Title: Typhoon
Character: Doctor
Released: May 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in order to survive.
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Dr. Cyclops
Title: Dr. Cyclops
Character: Prof. Kendall
Released: April 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Old Man
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Pharmacist
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: Don Diego Mendoza
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Soviet Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Dr. Shumaker
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Baron von Bissing
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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The Magnificent Fraud
Title: The Magnificent Fraud
Character: Mendietta Garcia
Released: July 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Duc de Morny (uncredited)
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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Sons of Liberty
Title: Sons of Liberty
Character: Lyons the Storekeeper (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
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Mystery of the White Room
Title: Mystery of the White Room
Character: Dr. Amos Thornton
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Man in Charge of Duel
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Society Smugglers
Title: Society Smugglers
Character: Jones
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
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Woman Doctor
Title: Woman Doctor
Character: Dr. Mathews
Released: February 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Woman Doctor is a 1939 American drama film
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: President of Assize Court
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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The Girl Downstairs
Title: The Girl Downstairs
Character: Police Official (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Title: Torchy Gets Her Man
Character: The Professor - Henchman
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Suez
Title: Suez
Character: General Changarnier
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Letter of Introduction
Title: Letter of Introduction
Character: Second Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also trying to make it on Broadway. He tries to re-establish his relationship with her while also trying to hide the fact that she is his daughter from the press.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Professor O.J. Ludwig (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Dr. Ferenc Waller
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Rascals
Title: Rascals
Character: Dr. C.M. Garvey
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
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Prison Nurse
Title: Prison Nurse
Character: Doctor Hartman
Released: March 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
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Prescription for Romance
Title: Prescription for Romance
Character: Jozsef
Released: December 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: Monsieur Debillon (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Stage Director
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Kurtz
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Horace Darwin
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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West Bound Limited
Title: West Bound Limited
Character: Pop Martin
Released: July 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Pavloff
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Midnight Madonna
Title: Midnight Madonna
Character: Vincent Long II
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Ernst's Father
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Carl - gang engineer
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Von Cram
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Dr. Larson
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Rainer
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Robinson
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Eben McClelland
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Under Cover of Night
Title: Under Cover of Night
Character: Rudolph Brehmer
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Creditor Agent (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Theo Drukker (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Laughing at Trouble
Title: Laughing at Trouble
Character: Dr. Larson
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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Along Came Love
Title: Along Came Love
Character: Planetarium Lecturer
Released: November 5, 1936
Type: Movie
The shop girl Emmy Grant meets the handsome doorman John Patrick O'Ryan outside of a theater and she is convinced that he is her true love. O'Ryan is a zealous medical student, soon to be a pediatrician, and is oblivious to Emmy's frantic attempts to gain his attention. O'Ryan is totally focused on babies. Undaunted, she 'borrows' a baby and a buggy, determined to catch O'Ryan.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Commander of U.S.S. Constitution (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Doctor Heimkin
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Anthony Adverse
Title: Anthony Adverse
Character: Coachman to Paris
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Second Wife
Title: Second Wife
Character: Headmaster
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.
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Girls Dormitory
Title: Girls Dormitory
Character: Dr. Hoffenreich
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
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The Devil-Doll
Title: The Devil-Doll
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: French General
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Henry Strand (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Character: Colonel Von Diegel
Released: April 4, 1936
Type: Movie
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Dr. Paul Luke
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Governor Felipe Vega
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Title: The Story of Louis Pasteur
Character: Dr. Pfeiffer
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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The Invisible Ray
Title: The Invisible Ray
Character: Professor Meiklejohn
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Dr. Coate
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Dr. Rochard
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Dr. Trenk
Released: December 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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Kind Lady
Title: Kind Lady
Character: Gustave Roubet (as Frank Reigher)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Title: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Character: 2nd Assistant Director
Released: November 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want him to honor the tradition of returning to the tables.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Dr. R.A. Jackson
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
Title: Charlie Chan in Egypt
Character: Dr. Jaipur
Released: June 4, 1935
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Abe Ohlman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Von Stein
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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A Dog of Flanders
Title: A Dog of Flanders
Character: Herr Vanderkloot
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
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Life Returns
Title: Life Returns
Character: Dr. James
Released: January 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
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Mills of the Gods
Title: Mills of the Gods
Character: Barrett
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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Secret of the Chateau
Title: Secret of the Chateau
Character: Auctioneer
Released: December 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
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I Am a Thief
Title: I Am a Thief
Character: Max Bolen
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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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Dr. Carl Cooper
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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British Agent
Title: British Agent
Character: Mr. X
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
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The Fountain
Title: The Fountain
Character: Doctor
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Franz Reinhardt
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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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Richards
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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Men in White
Title: Men in White
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Doctor
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Title: The Countess of Monte Cristo
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: March 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Herr Winterstein
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Danny
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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The Son of Kong
Title: The Son of Kong
Character: Captain Englehorn
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
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Captured!
Title: Captured!
Character: Herr Hauptman
Released: August 19, 1933
Type: Movie
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
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Before Dawn
Title: Before Dawn
Character: Joe Valerie
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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Jennie Gerhardt
Title: Jennie Gerhardt
Character: Old Weaver (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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A Bedtime Story
Title: A Bedtime Story
Character: Aristide
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Captain Englehorn
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Topaze
Title: Topaze
Character: Dr. Stegg
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
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Employees' Entrance
Title: Employees' Entrance
Character: Garfinkle
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
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Flesh
Title: Flesh
Character: Warden in Germany (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
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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Scarlet Dawn
Title: Scarlet Dawn
Character: Plotsky (Uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
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The Crooked Circle
Title: The Crooked Circle
Character: Rankin
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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A Woman Commands
Title: A Woman Commands
Character: The General
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: The Cook - Spy
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: Holtzmann
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Arresting Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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Beyond Victory
Title: Beyond Victory
Character: German Hospital Chief
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Francesco Tomasulo
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: General Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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Every woman's longing
Title: Every woman's longing
Released: May 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself.
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Strictly Unconventional
Title: Strictly Unconventional
Character: Duke of Brocklehurst
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
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The Grand Parade
Title: The Grand Parade
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
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Girl of the Port
Title: Girl of the Port
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.
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Mister Antonio
Title: Mister Antonio
Character: Milton Jorny
Released: October 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jorny, mayor of Avalonia, a straitlaced town where Tony was once arrested for playing his hurdy-gurdy. After this meeting, Tony's travels take him again to Avalonia. Camped on the outskirts of town, he meets June Ramsey, a cousin of the mayor's wife, ejected from town by the mayor because his reelection campaign is jeopardized by her having been seen in a roadhouse. Under considerable pressure because he wishes to conceal his previous encounter with Tony from the opposition, Jorny returns Tony's favor by asking June's forgiveness and inviting her to return to Avalonia. June accepts his apologies; she then follows Tony, with whom she has fallen in love.
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Her Private Affair
Title: Her Private Affair
Character: State's Attorney
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
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Paris Bound
Title: Paris Bound
Released: August 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
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Black Waters
Title: Black Waters
Character: Randall
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
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Strange Cargo
Title: Strange Cargo
Character: Dr. Stecker
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
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His Captive Woman
Title: His Captive Woman
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
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Sins of the Fathers
Title: Sins of the Fathers
Character: The Eye Specialist
Released: December 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
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Napoleon's Barber
Title: Napoleon's Barber
Character: Napoleon's Barber
Released: November 24, 1928
Type: Movie
Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
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The Masks of the Devil
Title: The Masks of the Devil
Character: Count Zellner
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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The Blue Danube
Title: The Blue Danube
Character: Baron
Released: March 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
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Four Sons
Title: Four Sons
Character: The Schoolmaster
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
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Beau Sabreur
Title: Beau Sabreur
Character: Gen. de Beaujolais
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
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Her Man o' War
Title: Her Man o' War
Character: Professor Krantz
Released: August 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he is assigned to the small farm of a young woman and her son to help raise crops to help feed the German army and people.