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Black Market Babies (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Black Market Babies
other title: El mercado negro de niños
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Song of Nevada (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Song of Nevada
director: Joseph Kane actor: Roy Rogers / Dale Evans
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
Home in Oklahoma (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Home in Oklahoma
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.
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
other title: La Vie de Jimmy Dolan / Su última pelea
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Murder on a Honeymoon
other title: Asesinato en la luna de miel
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
The Richest Girl in the World (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Richest Girl in the World
other title: La venus de oro / La Femme la plus riche du monde
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
Murder by Television (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Murder by Television
other title: Asesinato por televisión / 电视谋杀案
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
I Accuse My Parents (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I Accuse My Parents
other title: Accuse My Past
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
Road to Rio (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Road to Rio
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope
other title: 리오로 가는 길 / Der Weg nach Rio
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
Escape by Night (1937) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Escape by Night
director: Hamilton MacFadden actor: William Hall / Anne Nagel
other title: 在夜晚逃离 / 在夜晚私奔
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Broadway Bill (1934) [Movie] IMDb
Broadway Bill
director: Frank Capra actor: Warner Baxter / Myrna Loy
other title: La Course de Broadway Bill / Estrictamente confidencial
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
The Roaring Twenties (1939) [Movie] IMDb Eggplant.place Douban TMDB WikiData
The Roaring Twenties
7.6 (16 ratings) director: 拉乌尔·沃尔什 actor: 詹姆斯·卡格尼 / 普瑞丝西拉·兰恩
other title: 私枭血 / 愤怒的二〇年代
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.