John Wray

John Wray

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Wray (13 February 1887 - 5 April 1940) was an American character actor of stage and screen. Wray was one of the many Broadway actors to descend on Hollywood in the aftermath of the sound revolution, and quickly made an indelible impression on the era in a variety of substantial character roles, such as the Arnold Rothstein-like gangster in The Czar of Broadway (1930); Himmelstoss, the sadistic drill instructor in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); and as the contortionist the Frog in the remake of The Miracle Man (1932), in the role previously played by Lon Chaney in the 1919 original. During this period he was one of the many actors mentioned for the title role in Dracula (1931). Wray's roles grew increasingly smaller as the decade progressed but he was very visible as the starving farmer threatening to kill Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and as the warden in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937). Other films include Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Frisco Kid (1935), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Boys Town (1938), Each Dawn I Die (1939), The Cat and the Canary (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Wray(actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: John Wray
  • Popularity: 2.782
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-02-12
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Also Known As: John Griffith Malloy
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  • 1930
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    7.758 1930 HD

    When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

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  • 1932
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    Doctor X

    Doctor X

    6 1932 HD

    A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

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  • 1936
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    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    7.5 1936 HD

    Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

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  • 1940
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    Remember the Night

    Remember the Night

    7.366 1940 HD

    Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

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    Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die

    6.726 1939 HD

    A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...

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    The Man from Dakota

    The Man from Dakota

    5.3 1940 HD

    A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

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    High Pressure

    High Pressure

    6 1932 HD

    Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them...

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    You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once

    7.1 1937 HD

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

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  • 1931
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    Safe in Hell

    Safe in Hell

    6.7 1931 HD

    To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...

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    Lone Cowboy

    Lone Cowboy

    3.5 1933 HD

    Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his...

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  • 1938
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    Spawn of the North

    Spawn of the North

    5.611 1938 HD

    Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

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    Green Eyes

    Green Eyes

    5 1934 HD

    The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to...

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    The Big Shakedown

    The Big Shakedown

    5.6 1934 HD

    Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical...

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    The Rich Are Always with Us

    The Rich Are Always with Us

    5.2 1932 HD

    A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

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  • 1939
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.4 1939 HD

    A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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    Tenth Avenue Kid

    Tenth Avenue Kid

    5 1938 HD

    In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his...

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  • 1935
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    Frisco Kid

    Frisco Kid

    6.8 1935 HD

    After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

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    The Mouthpiece

    The Mouthpiece

    5.9 1932 HD

    A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

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  • 1932
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    The Match King

    The Match King

    6.6 1932 HD

    Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

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  • 1938
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    What Price Safety!

    What Price Safety!

    6 1938 HD

    Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

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  • 1931
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    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions

    7.1 1931 HD

    A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...

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  • 1929
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    New York Nights

    New York Nights

    4.8 1929 HD

    Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being...

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  • 1932
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    Miss Pinkerton

    Miss Pinkerton

    5.7 1932 HD

    Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to...

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  • 1932
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    Central Park

    Central Park

    5.2 1932 HD

    Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...

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  • 1938
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    A Man to Remember

    A Man to Remember

    6.5 1938 HD

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

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  • 1935
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    Ladies Love Danger

    Ladies Love Danger

    1 1935 HD

    A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the...

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  • 1936
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    A Man Betrayed

    A Man Betrayed

    6 1936 HD

    A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders,...

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    Circus Girl

    Circus Girl

    4 1937 HD

    A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

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  • 1935
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    Atlantic Adventure

    Atlantic Adventure

    5.5 1935 HD

    When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....

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  • 1934
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    The Defense Rests

    The Defense Rests

    7 1934 HD

    A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

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  • 1932
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    The Woman from Monte Carlo

    The Woman from Monte Carlo

    5 1932 HD

    On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to...

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  • 1938
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    4.8 1938 HD

    An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

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  • 1938
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    The Black Doll

    The Black Doll

    5.3 1938 HD

    Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former...

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  • 1933
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    After Tonight

    After Tonight

    6.3 1933 HD

    When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of...

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  • 1934
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    I Am a Thief

    I Am a Thief

    6 1934 HD

    A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

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  • 1935
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    Bad Boy

    Bad Boy

    5 1935 HD

    An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for...

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  • 1934
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    Fifteen Wives

    Fifteen Wives

    1 1934 HD

    Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes...

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  • 1939
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    Almost a Gentleman

    Almost a Gentleman

    6 1939 HD

    Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

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  • 1930
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    The Czar of Broadway

    The Czar of Broadway

    1 1930 HD

    Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

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  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.6 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    The Captain Hates the Sea

    The Captain Hates the Sea

    6.5 1934 HD

    Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...

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  • 1939
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    Risky Business

    Risky Business

    6 1939 HD

    Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.

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  • 1934
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    Most Precious Thing in Life

    Most Precious Thing in Life

    5.2 1934 HD

    An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell,...

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  • 1937
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    The Devil Is Driving

    The Devil Is Driving

    1 1937 HD

    In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly...

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  • 1934
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    Bombay Mail

    Bombay Mail

    6 1934 HD

    In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.

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  • 1939
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    The Amazing Mr. Williams

    The Amazing Mr. Williams

    5.8 1939 HD

    Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...

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  • 1937
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    We Who Are About to Die

    We Who Are About to Die

    6.8 1937 HD

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

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  • 1939
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    The Cat and the Canary

    The Cat and the Canary

    7 1939 HD

    Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell....

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  • 1936
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    The Devil Is a Sissy

    The Devil Is a Sissy

    6.9 1936 HD

    A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

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  • 1936
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    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

    6.3 1936 HD

    Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul,...

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  • 1935
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    Men Without Names

    Men Without Names

    6 1935 HD

    A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

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  • 1936
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    Sworn Enemy

    Sworn Enemy

    5.3 1936 HD

    A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

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  • 1939
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    Pacific Liner

    Pacific Liner

    5.2 1939 HD

    The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the...

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  • 1939
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    Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind

    7.941 1939 HD

    The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

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  • 1939
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    Golden Boy

    Golden Boy

    6.4 1939 HD

    Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When...

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  • 1938
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    Professor Beware

    Professor Beware

    6.1 1938 HD

    Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

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  • 1937
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    On Such a Night

    On Such a Night

    1 1937 HD

    When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

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  • 1931
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    Silence

    Silence

    7.5 1931 HD

    A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to...

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  • 1939
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    Smuggled Cargo

    Smuggled Cargo

    1 1939 HD

    When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association...

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  • 1936
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    A Son Comes Home

    A Son Comes Home

    1 1936 HD

    A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.

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  • 1936
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    The President's Mystery

    The President's Mystery

    5.3 1936 HD

    The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent...

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  • 1940
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    Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson

    5.4 1940 HD

    A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for...

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  • 1937
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    The Women Men Marry

    The Women Men Marry

    5.5 1937 HD

    A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

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  • 1932
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    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    7.8 1932 HD

    A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

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  • 1940
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    The Doctor Takes a Wife

    The Doctor Takes a Wife

    6.5 1940 HD

    A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

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  • 1938
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    Making the Headlines

    Making the Headlines

    1 1938 HD

    Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban...

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  • 1940
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    Know Your Money

    Know Your Money

    9 1940 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb...

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  • 1932
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    The Death Kiss

    The Death Kiss

    5.3 1932 HD

    When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

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  • 1937
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    Outcast

    Outcast

    1 1937 HD

    A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

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  • 1938
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    Boys Town

    Boys Town

    6.7 1938 HD

    Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

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  • 1939
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    Winter Carnival

    Winter Carnival

    6 1939 HD

    A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

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  • 1934
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    The Crosby Case

    The Crosby Case

    4.2 1934 HD

    Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.

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  • 1935
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    Stranded

    Stranded

    5.8 1935 HD

    A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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  • 1936
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    Poor Little Rich Girl

    Poor Little Rich Girl

    6.588 1936 HD

    Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...

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  • 1934
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    I'll Fix It

    I'll Fix It

    1 1934 HD

    A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in...

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  • 1935
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    The Great Hotel Murder

    The Great Hotel Murder

    6 1935 HD

    Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

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  • 1934
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    Embarrassing Moments

    Embarrassing Moments

    1 1934 HD

    Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted...

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  • 1938
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    Crime Takes a Holiday

    Crime Takes a Holiday

    1 1938 HD

    A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

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  • 1931
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    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions

    7.1 1931 HD

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