Mitchell Leisen

Mitchell Leisen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mitchell Leisen (b. October 6 1898, Menominee, Michigan–d. October 28 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mitchell Leisen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Mitchell Leisen
  • Popularity: 3.112
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1898-10-06
  • Place of Birth: Menominee, Michigan, USA
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Mitchell Leisen Movies

  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...

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  • 1941
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    Hold Back the Dawn

    Hold Back the Dawn

    6.6 1941 HD

    Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...

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  • 1948
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    Miss Tatlock's Millions

    Miss Tatlock's Millions

    5.8 1948 HD

    After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the...

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  • 1936
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    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    5 1936 HD

    The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

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  • 1939
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    Midnight

    Midnight

    7.4 1939 HD

    An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

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  • 1935
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    Hands Across the Table

    Hands Across the Table

    6.8 1935 HD

    A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

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  • 1943
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    No Time for Love

    No Time for Love

    6.7 1943 HD

    Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

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  • 1943
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    No Time for Love

    No Time for Love

    6.7 1943 HD

    Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

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  • 1950
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    No Man of Her Own

    No Man of Her Own

    6.9 1950 HD

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

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  • 1950
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    No Man of Her Own

    No Man of Her Own

    6.9 1950 HD

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

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  • 1940
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    Remember the Night

    Remember the Night

    7.389 1940 HD

    Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

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  • 1940
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    Remember the Night

    Remember the Night

    7.389 1940 HD

    Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

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  • 1938
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    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    The Big Broadcast of 1938

    5.9 1938 HD

    The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

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  • 1934
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    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday

    6.3 1934 HD

    After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...

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  • 1937
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    7 1937 HD

    J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

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  • 1934
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    Murder at the Vanities

    Murder at the Vanities

    5.4 1934 HD

    Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

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  • 1942
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    The Lady Is Willing

    The Lady Is Willing

    6.8 1942 HD

    Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep...

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  • 1946
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    To Each His Own

    To Each His Own

    6.8 1946 HD

    During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to...

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  • 1941
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    Hold Back the Dawn

    Hold Back the Dawn

    6.6 1941 HD

    Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...

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  • 1953
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    Tonight We Sing

    Tonight We Sing

    10 1953 HD

    Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It...

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  • 1937
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    Swing High, Swing Low

    Swing High, Swing Low

    5.1 1937 HD

    In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved...

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  • 1944
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    Lady in the Dark

    Lady in the Dark

    4.7 1944 HD

    A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

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  • 1944
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    Lady in the Dark

    Lady in the Dark

    4.7 1944 HD

    A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

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  • 1935
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    Four Hours to Kill!

    Four Hours to Kill!

    5 1935 HD

    A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where...

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  • 1942
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    Take a Letter, Darling

    Take a Letter, Darling

    6.5 1942 HD

    A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...

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  • 1951
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    The Mating Season

    The Mating Season

    6.5 1951 HD

    Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her...

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  • 1947
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    Golden Earrings

    Golden Earrings

    5.8 1947 HD

    A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...

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  • 1952
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    Young Man with Ideas

    Young Man with Ideas

    4.688 1952 HD

    A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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  • 1955
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    Bedevilled

    Bedevilled

    4.7 1955 HD

    A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.

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  • 1958
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    The Girl Most Likely

    The Girl Most Likely

    3.7 1958 HD

    Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing...

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  • 1940
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    Arise, My Love

    Arise, My Love

    6.1 1940 HD

    A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

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  • 1944
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    Frenchman's Creek

    Frenchman's Creek

    5 1944 HD

    An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...

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  • 1941
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    I Wanted Wings

    I Wanted Wings

    5.1 1941 HD

    Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and...

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  • 1950
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    Captain Carey, U.S.A.

    Captain Carey, U.S.A.

    5.5 1950 HD

    Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt....

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  • 1951
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    Darling, How Could You!

    Darling, How Could You!

    6 1951 HD

    Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

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  • 1949
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    Bride of Vengeance

    Bride of Vengeance

    4.5 1949 HD

    The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He...

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  • 1944
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    Practically Yours

    Practically Yours

    1 1944 HD

    In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

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  • 1933
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    Cradle Song

    Cradle Song

    1 1933 HD

    In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a...

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  • 1934
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    Behold My Wife!

    Behold My Wife!

    7 1934 HD

    After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives...

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  • 1936
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    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    The Big Broadcast of 1937

    5 1936 HD

    The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

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  • 1938
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    Artists and Models Abroad

    Artists and Models Abroad

    3 1938 HD

    Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing...

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  • 1948
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    Dream Girl

    Dream Girl

    4.5 1948 HD

    A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.

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  • 1936
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    13 Hours by Air

    13 Hours by Air

    4.333 1936 HD

    Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves...

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  • 1920
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    Conrad in Quest of His Youth

    Conrad in Quest of His Youth

    5.7 1920 HD

    Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he...

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  • 1925
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    The Road to Yesterday

    The Road to Yesterday

    6 1925 HD

    Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a...

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  • 1926
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    The Volga Boatman

    The Volga Boatman

    6.3 1926 HD

    During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.

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  • 1927
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    The Angel of Broadway

    The Angel of Broadway

    1 1927 HD

    Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army...

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  • 1927
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    The Fighting Eagle

    The Fighting Eagle

    5 1927 HD

    The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.

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  • 1927
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    The Wise Wife

    The Wise Wife

    1 1927 HD

    John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very...

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  • 1927
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    Dress Parade

    Dress Parade

    6.5 1927 HD

    An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy...

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  • 1927
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    Chicago

    Chicago

    5.7 1927 HD

    Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted....

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  • 1928
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    The Godless Girl

    The Godless Girl

    7 1928 HD

    High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a...

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  • 1929
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    Dynamite

    Dynamite

    6.1 1929 HD

    Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...

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  • 1930
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    Madam Satan

    Madam Satan

    5.8 1930 HD

    A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

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  • 1931
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    The Squaw Man

    The Squaw Man

    5.4 1931 HD

    Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

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  • 1931
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    The Squaw Man

    The Squaw Man

    5.4 1931 HD

    Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord...

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  • 1947
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    Suddenly It's Spring

    Suddenly It's Spring

    4.333 1947 HD

    A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

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  • 1927
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    The Forbidden Woman

    The Forbidden Woman

    1 1927 HD

    A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for...

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  • 1967
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    Spree

    Spree

    3.5 1967 HD

    This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers...

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  • 1949
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    Song of Surrender

    Song of Surrender

    1 1949 HD

    In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local...

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  • 1945
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    Masquerade in Mexico

    Masquerade in Mexico

    5.4 1945 HD

    An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a...

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  • 1923
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    Rosita

    Rosita

    6.5 1923 HD

    The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to...

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  • 1932
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    The Sign of the Cross

    The Sign of the Cross

    6.1 1932 HD

    After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

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  • 1932
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    The Sign of the Cross

    The Sign of the Cross

    6.1 1932 HD

    After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

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  • 1932
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    The Sign of the Cross

    The Sign of the Cross

    6.1 1932 HD

    After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

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  • 1924
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    The Thief of Bagdad

    The Thief of Bagdad

    7.3 1924 HD

    A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

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  • 1922
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    Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

    6.4 1922 HD

    Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel,...

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  • 1924
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    Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

    Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

    4.3 1924 HD

    In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George...

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  • 1927
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    His Dog

    His Dog

    1 1927 HD

    Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor,...

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  • 1945
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    Kitty

    Kitty

    5.5 1945 HD

    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...

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  • 1930
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    Madam Satan

    Madam Satan

    5.8 1930 HD

    A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

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  • 1933
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    The Eagle and the Hawk

    The Eagle and the Hawk

    6.6 1933 HD

    The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the...

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  • 1958
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    Shirley Temple's Storybook: Mother Goose

    Shirley Temple's Storybook: Mother Goose

    1 1958 HD

    Mother Goose travels to Wayfair and tries to save the town's annual fair, which has been canceled by young Polly Baker's father, the Mayor.

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  • 1970
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    8.445 1970 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1970
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    6.6 1970 HD

    The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1970
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    6.2 1970 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations...

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