Roland Pertwee

Roland Pertwee

  • Title: Roland Pertwee
  • Popularity: 1.185
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1885-05-17
  • Place of Birth: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
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Roland Pertwee Movies

  • 1945
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    They Were Sisters

    They Were Sisters

    5.1 1945 HD

    The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

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  • 1944
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    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House

    6.5 1944 HD

    A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?

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  • 1939
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    The Four Just Men

    The Four Just Men

    6 1939 HD

    The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

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  • 1942
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    The Day Will Dawn

    The Day Will Dawn

    5.6 1942 HD

    When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his warning to the Royal Navy is dismissed and he loses his post. With the German invasion of Norway soon after, Metcalfe returns, determined to uncover enemy operations and strike back against the occupiers. (Note: The film was released in the United States under the alternate title The Avengers (1942).)

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  • 1941
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    "Pimpernel" Smith

    "Pimpernel" Smith

    7.2 1941 HD

    Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

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  • 1943
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    The Gentle Sex

    The Gentle Sex

    7 1943 HD

    During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

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  • 1942
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    Talk About Jacqueline

    Talk About Jacqueline

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1938
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    A Yank at Oxford

    A Yank at Oxford

    6.7 1938 HD

    A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

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  • 1933
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    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

    5.565 1933 HD

    British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.

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  • 1945
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    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    6 1945 HD

    Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

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  • 1939
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    The Four Just Men

    The Four Just Men

    6 1939 HD

    The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

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  • 1935
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    Man of the Moment

    Man of the Moment

    5 1935 HD

    Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

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  • 1949
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    Silent Dust

    Silent Dust

    7.3 1949 HD

    A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.

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  • 1939
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    Young Man's Fancy

    Young Man's Fancy

    5.857 1939 HD

    An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

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  • 1941
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    Freedom Radio

    Freedom Radio

    6.3 1941 HD

    Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.

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  • 1940
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    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    6.2 1940 HD

    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

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  • 1931
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    I Like Your Nerve

    I Like Your Nerve

    5.7 1931 HD

    A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.

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  • 1939
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    The Spy in Black

    The Spy in Black

    6.4 1939 HD

    A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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  • 1932
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    Help Yourself

    Help Yourself

    1 1932 HD

    A clever, out-of-work man through a series of misunderstandings and bold maneuvers, manages to pass himself off as a wealthy and influential figure. He uses this false persona to navigate high society and outwit various characters he encounters. The comedy centers on his efforts to maintain the facade while dealing with the romantic and financial complications that arise.

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  • 1941
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    Jeannie

    Jeannie

    6.5 1941 HD

    Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

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  • 1935
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    Honours Easy

    Honours Easy

    1 1935 HD

    Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.

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  • 1932
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    Murder on the Second Floor

    Murder on the Second Floor

    1 1932 HD

    A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

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  • 1932
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    Murder on the Second Floor

    Murder on the Second Floor

    1 1932 HD

    A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

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  • 1920
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    Aunt Rachel

    Aunt Rachel

    1 1920 HD

    A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.

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  • 1943
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    The Night Invader

    The Night Invader

    1 1943 HD

    Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?

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  • 1945
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    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    6.3 1945 HD

    In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

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  • 1945
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    They Were Sisters

    They Were Sisters

    5.1 1945 HD

    The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

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  • 1941
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    "Pimpernel" Smith

    "Pimpernel" Smith

    7.2 1941 HD

    Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

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  • 1949
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    Diamond City

    Diamond City

    5.2 1949 HD

    Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

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  • 1940
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    It Happened to One Man

    It Happened to One Man

    1 1940 HD

    A film directed by Paul L. Stein.

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  • 1932
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    Illegal

    Illegal

    5.7 1932 HD

    This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.

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  • 1932
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    Illegal

    Illegal

    5.7 1932 HD

    This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.

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  • 1932
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    The Silver Greyhound

    The Silver Greyhound

    1 1932 HD

    A King’s Messenger has important documents stolen by a female spy. The plot follows the messenger’s uncle as he takes action to track down the culprit, retrieve the papers, and unmask the spy.

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  • 1938
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    The Ware Case

    The Ware Case

    6.2 1938 HD

    An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

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  • 1932
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    A Voice Said Goodnight

    A Voice Said Goodnight

    1 1932 HD

    A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

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  • 1932
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    A Voice Said Goodnight

    A Voice Said Goodnight

    1 1932 HD

    A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

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  • 1937
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    5.296 1937 HD

    White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

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  • 1937
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    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines

    5.296 1937 HD

    White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

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  • 1928
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    A South Sea Bubble

    A South Sea Bubble

    1 1928 HD

    'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

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  • 1946
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    Caravan

    Caravan

    6 1946 HD

    During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.

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  • 1935
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    Man of the Moment

    Man of the Moment

    5 1935 HD

    Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

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  • 1933
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    Sleeping Car

    Sleeping Car

    4 1933 HD

    A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.

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  • 1934
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    The Night of the Party

    The Night of the Party

    5.4 1934 HD

    A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...

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  • 1934
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    The Night of the Party

    The Night of the Party

    5.4 1934 HD

    A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...

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  • 1928
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    Interference

    Interference

    7 1928 HD

    Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.

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  • 1931
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    Honor of the Family

    Honor of the Family

    1 1931 HD

    Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

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  • 1940
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    Dangerous Comment

    Dangerous Comment

    1 1940 HD

    A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.

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  • 1942
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    Talk About Jacqueline

    Talk About Jacqueline

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1955
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    It's a Great Day

    It's a Great Day

    5.7 1955 HD

    Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.

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  • 1937
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    Non-Stop New York

    Non-Stop New York

    6.5 1937 HD

    A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

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  • 1946
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    The Magic Bow

    The Magic Bow

    5.5 1946 HD

    Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.

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  • 1950
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    Black Jack

    Black Jack

    5.8 1950 HD

    A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in.

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  • 1937
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    Dinner at the Ritz

    Dinner at the Ritz

    5.5 1937 HD

    The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

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  • 1937
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    Dinner at the Ritz

    Dinner at the Ritz

    5.5 1937 HD

    The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

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  • 1937
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    Dinner at the Ritz

    Dinner at the Ritz

    5.5 1937 HD

    The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

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  • 1923
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    Out to Win

    Out to Win

    1 1923 HD

    A tramp is hired to pose as a financier to obtain a Balkan radium concession.

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  • 1932
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    Impromptu

    Impromptu

    1 1932 HD

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  • 1919
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    Faith

    Faith

    1 1919 HD

    Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.

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  • 1919
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    The Bridal Chair

    The Bridal Chair

    1 1919 HD

    Lord Louis Lewis vows not to marry until his crippled fiancée, Sylvane Sheridan, passes away, despite temptations from other women like Jill Hargreaves, highlighting his devotion and the constraints placed on his life by her condition. The film centers on this poignant romance and loyalty, with Lord Louis remaining faithful as he waits for Sylvane, even as other suitors vie for his attention.

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  • 1931
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    The Road to Singapore

    The Road to Singapore

    5.2 1931 HD

    A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

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