William Powell — Actor (21)
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Paid to Love (1927) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Paid to Love
director: Howard Hawks actor: George O'Brien / Virginia Valli …
other title: 爱情买卖 / Prince sans amour …
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and they come up with a scheme to get the Crown Prince married, a prospect not particularly appealing to the Crown Prince--until he sees the beautiful cabaret dancer the pair has picked for him to marry.
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High Pressure (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
High Pressure
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: William Powell / Evelyn Brent …
other title: Ein ausgefuchster Gauner
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 is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...
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Street of Chance (1930) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Street of Chance
director: John Cromwell actor: William Powell / Jean Arthur …
other title: 大道似锦 / 大道似錦 …
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
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行差踏错 (1950) [Movie] Douban
Take One False Step
director: Chester Erskine actor: William Powell / Shelley Winters …
other title: Take One False Step
Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Next day Catherine is missing, believed killed; friend Martha convinces Andrew that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested. But this only puts Andrew in a more deadly kind of danger.
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Romola (1924) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Romola
director: Henry King actor: Lillian Gish / Dorothy Gish …
other title: 罗莫拉 / 林慕娜（港） …
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.