Milburn Stone

Milburn Stone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. His brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1919, Stone debuted on stage in a Kansas tent show. He ventured into vaudeville in the late 1920s, and in 1930, he was half of the Stone and Strain song-and-dance act. His Broadway credits include Around the Corner (1936) and Jayhawker (1934). In the 1930s, Stone came to Los Angeles, California, to launch his own screen career. He was featured in the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure serial for Monogram Pictures. In 1940, he appeared with Marjorie Reynolds, Tristram Coffin, and I. Stanford Jolley in the comedy espionage film Chasing Trouble. That same year, he co-starred with Roy Rogers in the film Colorado in the role of Rogers' brother-gone-wrong. Stone appeared uncredited in the 1939 film Blackwell's Island. Stone played Dr. Blake in the 1943 film Gung Ho! and a liberal-minded warden in Monogram Pictures' Prison Mutiny in 1943. Signed by Universal Pictures in 1943, in the film Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1943), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death [Captain Pat Vickery], (1944), he became a familiar face in its features and serials. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with experienced screen actors. Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams, was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack in La Jolla. He was survived by his second wife, the former Jane Garrison, a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, who died in 2002. Stone had a surviving daughter, Shirley Stone Gleason (born circa 1926) of Costa Mesa, California, from his first marriage of 12 years to Ellen Morrison, formerly of Delphos, Kansas, who died in 1937. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. In 1968, Stone received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on Gunsmoke. For his contribution to the television industry, Milburn Stone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1981, Stone was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. After his death, he left a legacy for the performing arts in Cecil County in northeastern Maryland, by way of the Milburn Stone Theatre in North East, Maryland.

  • Title: Milburn Stone
  • Popularity: 2.4078
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1904-07-05
  • Place of Birth: Burrton, Kansas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Milburne Stone, Hugh Milburn Stone, میلبرن استون
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Milburn Stone Movies

  • 1953
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    Invaders from Mars

    Invaders from Mars

    5.915 1953 HD

    A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.

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  • 1953
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    Second Chance

    Second Chance

    5.917 1953 HD

    A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

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  • 1936
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    The Princess Comes Across

    The Princess Comes Across

    6.1 1936 HD

    A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

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  • 1946
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    Inside Job

    Inside Job

    5.6 1946 HD

    A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

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  • 1954
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    Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday

    6.138 1954 HD

    Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

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  • 1953
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    Pickup on South Street

    Pickup on South Street

    7.375 1953 HD

    In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

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  • 1951
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    Roadblock

    Roadblock

    5.796 1951 HD

    An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

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  • 1950
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    No Man of Her Own

    No Man of Her Own

    6.872 1950 HD

    A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

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  • 1942
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    Invisible Agent

    Invisible Agent

    5.75 1942 HD

    The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

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  • 1939
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    Blind Alley

    Blind Alley

    5.7 1939 HD

    A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

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  • 1945
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    Strange Confession

    Strange Confession

    6.8 1945 HD

    A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.

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  • 1953
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    Arrowhead

    Arrowhead

    5.9 1953 HD

    Director Charles Marquis Warren's 1953 western stars Charlton Heston and Jack Palance. Chief of Scouts Ed Bannon works for the US Army at Fort Clark, Texas and he dreams of aiding in bringing peace to the region, despite opposition from both the Army and the Apaches.

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  • 1944
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    Phantom Lady

    Phantom Lady

    6.989 1944 HD

    A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

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  • 1955
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    The Long Gray Line

    The Long Gray Line

    7 1955 HD

    The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

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  • 1942
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    Reap the Wild Wind

    Reap the Wild Wind

    6.398 1942 HD

    The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

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  • 1945
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    The Frozen Ghost

    The Frozen Ghost

    6.3 1945 HD

    When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

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  • 1939
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    Nick Carter, Master Detective

    Nick Carter, Master Detective

    5.7 1939 HD

    Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

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  • 1949
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    The Judge

    The Judge

    5.167 1949 HD

    A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.

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  • 1946
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    Danger Woman

    Danger Woman

    1 1946 HD

    A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

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  • 1979
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    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    1 1979 HD

    Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.

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  • 1942
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    Eyes in the Night

    Eyes in the Night

    5.971 1942 HD

    Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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  • 1943
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    The Mad Ghoul

    The Mad Ghoul

    5.944 1943 HD

    A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.

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  • 1943
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    Captive Wild Woman

    Captive Wild Woman

    5.244 1943 HD

    An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

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  • 1950
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    The Fireball

    The Fireball

    5.6 1950 HD

    Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.

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  • 1952
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    The Atomic City

    The Atomic City

    5.4 1952 HD

    Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.

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  • 1939
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    The Big Guy

    The Big Guy

    1 1939 HD

    A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

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  • 1935
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    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    4.3 1935 HD

    A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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  • 1953
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    The Sun Shines Bright

    The Sun Shines Bright

    6.4 1953 HD

    With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.

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  • 1940
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    Framed

    Framed

    5.8 1940 HD

    A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.

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  • 1955
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    The Private War of Major Benson

    The Private War of Major Benson

    6.6 1955 HD

    A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC program at Sheridan Academy before it fails its next inspection. At Sheridan he encounters three hundred pre-teen cadets who range from rascally to adorable, and a female doctor who has just the right prescription for him.

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  • 1941
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    No Hands on the Clock

    No Hands on the Clock

    4.9 1941 HD

    A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

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  • 1948
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    Train to Alcatraz

    Train to Alcatraz

    6 1948 HD

    Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.

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  • 1946
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    Smooth as Silk

    Smooth as Silk

    4.808 1946 HD

    An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.

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  • 1939
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    Crashing Thru

    Crashing Thru

    6 1939 HD

    Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.

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  • 1955
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    Smoke Signal

    Smoke Signal

    6.857 1955 HD

    Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.

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  • 1938
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    Sinners in Paradise

    Sinners in Paradise

    5.077 1938 HD

    The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.

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  • 1939
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    Mystery Plane

    Mystery Plane

    7.2 1939 HD

    An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

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  • 1947
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    Heading for Heaven

    Heading for Heaven

    4.9 1947 HD

    A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.

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  • 1945
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    She Gets Her Man

    She Gets Her Man

    3.7 1945 HD

    The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

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  • 1945
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    The Royal Mounted Rides Again

    The Royal Mounted Rides Again

    5.8 1945 HD

    In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Boggs Steps Out

    Mr. Boggs Steps Out

    5.1 1938 HD

    A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

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  • 1945
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    Swing Out, Sister

    Swing Out, Sister

    3.667 1945 HD

    Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.

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  • 1951
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    Flying Leathernecks

    Flying Leathernecks

    5.8 1951 HD

    Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

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  • 1937
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    Atlantic Flight

    Atlantic Flight

    4 1937 HD

    Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film. In "Atlantic Flight" he's top-billed as a pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission to transport medicine to an ailing friend. Monogram.

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  • 1945
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    I'll Remember April

    I'll Remember April

    3.667 1945 HD

    The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

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  • 1946
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    The Spider Woman Strikes Back

    The Spider Woman Strikes Back

    6.5 1946 HD

    A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

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  • 1944
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    The Great Alaskan Mystery

    The Great Alaskan Mystery

    5 1944 HD

    The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.

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  • 1954
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    The Siege at Red River

    The Siege at Red River

    5.9 1954 HD

    Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians.

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  • 1937
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    The 13th Man

    The 13th Man

    6 1937 HD

    A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.

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  • 1937
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    Blazing Barriers

    Blazing Barriers

    1 1937 HD

    Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for.

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  • 1937
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    Swing It Professor

    Swing It Professor

    1 1937 HD

    A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.

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  • 1937
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    Youth on Parole

    Youth on Parole

    2.8 1937 HD

    Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.

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  • 1944
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    Weird Woman

    Weird Woman

    6 1944 HD

    After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

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  • 1946
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    The Scarlet Horseman

    The Scarlet Horseman

    1 1946 HD

    Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.

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  • 1945
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    The Master Key

    The Master Key

    1 1945 HD

    Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.

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  • 1937
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    The Wildcatter

    The Wildcatter

    1 1937 HD

    Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.

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  • 1943
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    You Can't Beat the Law

    You Can't Beat the Law

    5.2 1943 HD

    A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.

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  • 1938
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    Port of Missing Girls

    Port of Missing Girls

    1 1938 HD

    Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm, a woman-hater, and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China. Della is discovered by Jim Benton, the ship's first mate and he pleads her case to the captain. He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie at "Minnie's Joint in Shanghai, until her innocence can be established.

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  • 1938
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    Wives Under Suspicion

    Wives Under Suspicion

    5 1938 HD

    A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.

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  • 1952
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    The Savage

    The Savage

    6.1 1952 HD

    The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.

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  • 1942
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    Frisco Lil

    Frisco Lil

    8 1942 HD

    Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.

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  • 1944
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    Hi, Good Lookin'!

    Hi, Good Lookin'!

    5.7 1944 HD

    An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.

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  • 1944
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    Hi, Good Lookin'!

    Hi, Good Lookin'!

    5.7 1944 HD

    An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.

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  • 1949
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    The Green Promise

    The Green Promise

    6 1949 HD

    A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in charge of the farm.

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  • 1944
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    Jungle Woman

    Jungle Woman

    4.9 1944 HD

    Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

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  • 1943
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    Destroyer

    Destroyer

    6.6 1943 HD

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

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  • 1939
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    Young Mr. Lincoln

    Young Mr. Lincoln

    7.185 1939 HD

    In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

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  • 1939
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    Danger Flight

    Danger Flight

    3.2 1939 HD

    Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.

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  • 1947
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    Killer McCoy

    Killer McCoy

    6 1947 HD

    Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.

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  • 1937
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    They Gave Him a Gun

    They Gave Him a Gun

    6.2 1937 HD

    With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

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  • 1935
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    Cheers of the Crowd

    Cheers of the Crowd

    5.5 1935 HD

    To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.

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  • 1939
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    Made for Each Other

    Made for Each Other

    6.1 1939 HD

    A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

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  • 1939
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    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    6 1939 HD

    Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

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  • 1939
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    Blackwell's Island

    Blackwell's Island

    5 1939 HD

    A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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  • 1939
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    Stunt Pilot

    Stunt Pilot

    5 1939 HD

    The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shooting a war picture at Three Points airport, with Tailspin Tommy Tompkins as a stunt pilot in the film. Tommy is incensed by the complete disregard for human life shown by the film's director, Sheehan, and quits. Sheehan gets a replacement pilot named Earl Martin, who is known as a reckless pilot who will try an aerial stunt for a thrill. He hand Tommy get into a fight when Martin takes Betty Lou Barnes for a ride in a plane that is practically falling apart.

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  • 1944
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    Moon Over Las Vegas

    Moon Over Las Vegas

    1 1944 HD

    A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

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  • 1939
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    Charlie McCarthy, Detective

    Charlie McCarthy, Detective

    6 1939 HD

    Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.

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  • 1939
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    Fighting Mad

    Fighting Mad

    3 1939 HD

    Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.

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  • 1939
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    Sky Patrol

    Sky Patrol

    4 1939 HD

    "Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear. Tommy sends him out on patrol, on orders from Washington D. C., to stop any unfamiliar aircraft. Carter challenges an unmarked amphibian plane, which opens fire on him. Carter, afraid to shoot, bails out as his plane is shot down. Carter is missing, and Tommy and Skeeter are searching for him and the mysterious airplane.

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  • 1940
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    Chasing Trouble

    Chasing Trouble

    5 1940 HD

    A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

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  • 1941
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    Death Valley Outlaws

    Death Valley Outlaws

    1 1941 HD

    Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the fight. To get in with the gang, Johnny poses as an outlaw and then beats them to a gold shipment by robbing the train ahead of them. This gets him invited into the gang. They are all masked and unknown to Johnny, one of them is his brother.

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  • 1945
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    Enemy Bacteria

    Enemy Bacteria

    1 1945 HD

    A Navy animation film about bacteria.

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  • 1941
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    The Great Train Robbery

    The Great Train Robbery

    7.5 1941 HD

    Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......

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  • 1940
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    American Portrait

    American Portrait

    1 1940 HD

    This movie's preamble explains the importance of salesmanship after the great depression The industrial revolution has created a life of modern convenience for America, and there are more products available than most people can fathom. David, one of the main characters in this drama, is a life insurance salesman. His livelihood and profession rely on people willing to take out new policies. Throughout the beginning of the film, a narrator points out modern inventions like telephones, electric toasters, and other conveniences, and explains the significance of these items.

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  • 1952
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    Behind Southern Lines

    Behind Southern Lines

    1 1952 HD

    Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

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  • 1937
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    Wings Over Honolulu

    Wings Over Honolulu

    5.5 1937 HD

    A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

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  • 1944
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    Twilight on the Prairie

    Twilight on the Prairie

    1 1944 HD

    In this musical western, a cowboy band is offered the chance to appear in a Hollywood movie and begins the journey to the West Coast. Unfortunately, the band ends up stranded in Texas and must take a job running a ranch. Musical mayhem ensues: Songs include: "Let's Love Again," "Where the Prairie Meets the Sky," "Don't You Ever Be a Cowboy," "Texas Polka," "No Letter Today," "I Got Mellow in the Yellow of the Moon," "Sip Nip Song," "Salt-Water Cowboy," "The Blues," "Little Brown Jug" and "And Then."

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  • 1957
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    Drango

    Drango

    5.4 1957 HD

    A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.

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  • 1936
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    Murder with Pictures

    Murder with Pictures

    5.1 1936 HD

    Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...

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  • 1939
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    Society Smugglers

    Society Smugglers

    5.6 1939 HD

    The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.

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  • 1937
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    Federal Bullets

    Federal Bullets

    1 1937 HD

    Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Harrigan, investigates a seemingly respectable charitable organization. In fact, the enterprise is a front for a crime ring, headed by Ma Barker clone Zeffie Tilbury (Trivia note: Ms. Tilbury was totally blind, and had to learn her "blocking" by rote).

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  • 1940
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    Johnny Apollo

    Johnny Apollo

    6.875 1940 HD

    Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

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  • 1947
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    Killer Dill

    Killer Dill

    5 1947 HD

    Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.

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  • 1945
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    The Beautiful Cheat

    The Beautiful Cheat

    5 1945 HD

    The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.

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  • 1940
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    Enemy Agent

    Enemy Agent

    5.5 1940 HD

    A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

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  • 1943
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    Get Going

    Get Going

    1 1943 HD

    Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.

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  • 1940
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    Colorado

    Colorado

    5.5 1940 HD

    Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

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  • 1951
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    Operation Pacific

    Operation Pacific

    6.019 1951 HD

    During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.

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  • 1943
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    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    6.907 1943 HD

    During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.

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  • 1937
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    A Doctor's Diary

    A Doctor's Diary

    10 1937 HD

    A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out.

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  • 1940
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    Lillian Russell

    Lillian Russell

    6.455 1940 HD

    Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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  • 1936
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    Two in a Crowd

    Two in a Crowd

    1 1936 HD

    When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.

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  • 1940
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    An Angel from Texas

    An Angel from Texas

    4.8 1940 HD

    A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

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  • 1949
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    Sky Dragon

    Sky Dragon

    7.7 1949 HD

    All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--must discover the identity of the person who doped the passengers and stole the money.

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  • 1941
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    The Phantom Cowboy

    The Phantom Cowboy

    6 1941 HD

    Stan Borden with the help of the stooge Sheriff is out to get the Toreno ranch. Kicking the peons off the ranch, they kill Miguel's father. Miguel then becomes the masked El Lobo and when Jim Lawrence arrives, the two team up to fight Borden and the Sheriff.

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  • 1937
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    Music for Madame

    Music for Madame

    5 1937 HD

    An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

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  • 1943
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    Silent Witness

    Silent Witness

    6 1943 HD

    District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.

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  • 1940
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    Give Us Wings

    Give Us Wings

    6 1940 HD

    Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

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  • 1950
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    Branded

    Branded

    6.135 1950 HD

    A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

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  • 1950
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    Snow Dog

    Snow Dog

    5 1950 HD

    The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.

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  • 1943
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    Keep 'Em Slugging

    Keep 'Em Slugging

    5.5 1943 HD

    A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

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  • 1945
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    The Daltons Ride Again

    The Daltons Ride Again

    3 1945 HD

    The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.

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  • 1955
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    White Feather

    White Feather

    6.6 1955 HD

    The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.

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  • 1939
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    King of the Turf

    King of the Turf

    7 1939 HD

    Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.

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  • 1946
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    Strange Conquest

    Strange Conquest

    1 1946 HD

    Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.

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  • 1938
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    Paroled from the Big House

    Paroled from the Big House

    1 1938 HD

    A federal agent poses as a criminal to infiltrate a gang of parolees seeking vengeance on the lawmen who jailed them.

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  • 1943
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    Corvette K-225

    Corvette K-225

    6.1 1943 HD

    The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

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  • 1940
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    Buyer Beware

    Buyer Beware

    6 1940 HD

    This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

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  • 1940
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    Public Deb No. 1

    Public Deb No. 1

    4.4 1940 HD

    When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

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  • 1936
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    The Accusing Finger

    The Accusing Finger

    4.7 1936 HD

    A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.

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  • 1944
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    Prices Unlimited

    Prices Unlimited

    1 1944 HD

    Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

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  • 1945
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    On Stage Everybody

    On Stage Everybody

    1 1945 HD

    Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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  • 1942
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    Pacific Rendezvous

    Pacific Rendezvous

    6 1942 HD

    A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

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  • 1936
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    The Three Mesquiteers

    The Three Mesquiteers

    5 1936 HD

    When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

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  • 1946
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    Little Giant

    Little Giant

    5.1 1946 HD

    Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

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  • 1936
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    China Clipper

    China Clipper

    5.6 1936 HD

    An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

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  • 1947
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    Buck Privates Come Home

    Buck Privates Come Home

    6.3 1947 HD

    Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

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  • 1946
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    Her Adventurous Night

    Her Adventurous Night

    7 1946 HD

    A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.

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  • 1940
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    The Great Plane Robbery

    The Great Plane Robbery

    1 1940 HD

    Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.

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  • 1949
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    Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

    Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

    5.9 1949 HD

    Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?

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  • 1947
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    Michigan Kid

    Michigan Kid

    6 1947 HD

    A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

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  • 1951
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    The Racket

    The Racket

    6.3 1951 HD

    The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.

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  • 1943
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    Gung Ho!

    Gung Ho!

    5.354 1943 HD

    A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.

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  • 1942
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    Rubber Racketeers

    Rubber Racketeers

    4.3 1942 HD

    Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.

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  • 1938
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    California Frontier

    California Frontier

    1 1938 HD

    Halstead forces the Land Agent to alter the records and then kicks the Mexicans off their land. Buck has been sent to investigate and quickly joins up with Juan Cantova in the fight against Halstead. To keep Buck from seeing the records, Halstead has the Agent murdered. His men then claim Juan killed him and both Buck and Juan then find themselves wanted dead or alive.

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  • 1939
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    Tropic Fury

    Tropic Fury

    4 1939 HD

    An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.

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  • 1946
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    Little Miss Big

    Little Miss Big

    6 1946 HD

    A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters

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  • 1939
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    When Tomorrow Comes

    When Tomorrow Comes

    5.1 1939 HD

    A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.639 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

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  • 1969
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    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

    5.8 1969 HD

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3.3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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  • 1951
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    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    5 1951 HD

    The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.

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  • 1951
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    Racket Squad

    Racket Squad

    6 1951 HD

    Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".

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  • 1951
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    Dragnet

    Dragnet

    6.4 1951 HD

    Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

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    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

    5.4 1973 HD

    The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club in New York City. The format would have the celebrity guest seated at a banquet table, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. The final season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement. For the 1973–1974 season, a new feature called “Man of the Week Celebrity Roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be popular among television audiences and are often marketed in post-issues as part of the official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Martin Show. After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow.

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