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Zander the Great (1925) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Zander the Great
director: George W. Hill actor: Marion Davies / Holbrook Blinn …
other title: 赞德大帝 / L'Amazone
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
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Black Beauty (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Black Beauty
director: Max Nosseck actor: Mona Freeman / Richard Denning …
other title: Beauté noire / ブラック・ビューティー
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
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The White Cockatoo (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The White Cockatoo
director: Alan Crosland actor: Jean Muir / Ricardo Cortez …
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
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Strange Bargain (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Strange Bargain
director: Will Price actor: Martha Scott / Jeffrey Lynn …
other title: Extraño asunto
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
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The Boy and the Pirates (1960) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Boy and the Pirates
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Charles Herbert / Susan Gordon …
other title: O Menino e os Piratas / Jimmy und die Piraten …
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
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Frisco Jenny (1932) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Frisco Jenny
director: 威廉·A·韦尔曼 actor: 鲁斯·查特顿 / 路易斯·卡尔亨 …
other title: 弗斯科·珍妮 / 孽海遗恨 …
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
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Lady Killer (1933) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lady Killer
director: 罗伊·德尔·鲁斯 actor: 詹姆斯·卡格尼
other title: 猎艳杀手 / 大众情人 …
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
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The Undying Monster (1942) [Movie] Douban
The Undying Monster
director: 约翰·布拉姆 actor: 詹姆斯·埃利森 / 希瑟·安吉尔 …
other title: 不死之魔
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Housewife (1934) [Movie] Douban
Housewife
director: 阿尔弗雷德·格林 actor: 贝蒂·戴维斯 / 安·德拉克 …
other title: 主妇
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
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Front Page Woman (1935) [Movie] Douban
Front Page Woman
director: 迈克尔·柯蒂兹 actor: 贝蒂·戴维斯 / 乔治·布伦特
other title: 新闻女人
Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested. She finds a bunch of "not guilty" ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict. After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released.
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Follow Me Quietly (1949) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Follow Me Quietly
director: 理查德·弗莱彻 / 安东尼·曼 actor: 威廉·卢迪根 / 多萝西·帕特里克 …
other title: 悄悄跟着我 / L'assassin sans visage …
Police baffled by the FACELESS KILLER!
A faceless dummy of a serial killer haunts a police department in this atmospheric noir thriller from Fleischer. The dummy is created to represent an elusive strangler who calls himself 'The Judge' and whom the frustrated detective Harry Grant attempts to reconstruct from a handful of clues, such as body size and suit fabric. Sure enough, as the dummy becomes more real, reason and sound judgement encounter the uncanny.