Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959). Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Del Ruth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Roy Del Ruth
  • Popularity: 3.667
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1893-10-18
  • Place of Birth: New Castle, Delaware, USA
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  • Also Known As: Thomas LeRoy Ruth
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Roy Del Ruth Movies

  • 1951
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    The Screen Director

    The Screen Director

    6 1951 HD

    A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

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  • 1949
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    Red Light

    Red Light

    5.5 1949 HD

    Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He...

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  • 1949
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    Red Light

    Red Light

    5.5 1949 HD

    Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He...

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  • 1923
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    Asleep at the Switch

    Asleep at the Switch

    1 1923 HD

    Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

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  • 1931
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    The Maltese Falcon

    The Maltese Falcon

    6.4 1931 HD

    A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette...

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  • 1933
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    The Little Giant

    The Little Giant

    6.8 1933 HD

    Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as...

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  • 1951
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    On Moonlight Bay

    On Moonlight Bay

    6.4 1951 HD

    The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives...

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  • 1959
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    The Alligator People

    The Alligator People

    5.6 1959 HD

    Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a...

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  • 1932
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    Blessed Event

    Blessed Event

    6.5 1932 HD

    A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

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  • 1931
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    Blonde Crazy

    Blonde Crazy

    7 1931 HD

    Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

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  • 1929
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    Gold Diggers of Broadway

    Gold Diggers of Broadway

    1 1929 HD

    Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

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  • 1948
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    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    5.8 1948 HD

    The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

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  • 1954
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    Phantom of the Rue Morgue

    Phantom of the Rue Morgue

    6.3 1954 HD

    When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon...

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  • 1943
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    Du Barry was a Lady

    Du Barry was a Lady

    6.1 1943 HD

    Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...

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  • 1942
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    I Married an Angel

    I Married an Angel

    5 1942 HD

    A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

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  • 1933
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    Employees' Entrance

    Employees' Entrance

    6.3 1933 HD

    Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

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  • 1941
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    Topper Returns

    Topper Returns

    6.4 1941 HD

    Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her...

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  • 1933
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    Lady Killer

    Lady Killer

    6.7 1933 HD

    An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

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  • 1939
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    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    5.8 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...

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  • 1938
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    Happy Landing

    Happy Landing

    5.3 1938 HD

    Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

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  • 1937
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    Broadway Melody of 1938

    Broadway Melody of 1938

    6.3 1937 HD

    Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces...

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  • 1936
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    Born to Dance

    Born to Dance

    6 1936 HD

    On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established...

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  • 1935
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    Broadway Melody of 1936

    Broadway Melody of 1936

    6.4 1935 HD

    Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is...

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  • 1933
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    Bureau of Missing Persons

    Bureau of Missing Persons

    5.6 1933 HD

    Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

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  • 1950
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    The West Point Story

    The West Point Story

    5.8 1950 HD

    A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

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  • 1931
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    Taxi!

    Taxi!

    6.8 1931 HD

    Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around...

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  • 1947
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    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    7.1 1947 HD

    A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the...

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  • 1932
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    Winner Take All

    Winner Take All

    5.3 1932 HD

    Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...

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  • 1952
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    About Face

    About Face

    3 1952 HD

    Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.

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  • 1944
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    Broadway Rhythm

    Broadway Rhythm

    5.5 1944 HD

    Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used...

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  • 1941
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    The Chocolate Soldier

    The Chocolate Soldier

    6.6 1941 HD

    Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman...

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  • 1952
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    Stop, You're Killing Me

    Stop, You're Killing Me

    5 1952 HD

    A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

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  • 1949
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    Always Leave Them Laughing

    Always Leave Them Laughing

    4.3 1949 HD

    A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.

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  • 1960
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    Why Must I Die

    Why Must I Die

    5 1960 HD

    A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

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  • 1930
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    Three Faces East

    Three Faces East

    4.7 1930 HD

    The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

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  • 1942
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    Maisie Gets Her Man

    Maisie Gets Her Man

    6.5 1942 HD

    Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

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  • 1937
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    On the Avenue

    On the Avenue

    6.7 1937 HD

    A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

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  • 1934
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    Kid Millions

    Kid Millions

    6.5 1934 HD

    A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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  • 1935
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    Thanks a Million

    Thanks a Million

    5.8 1935 HD

    A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be...

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  • 1922
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    Gymnasium Jim

    Gymnasium Jim

    4.5 1922 HD

    Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.

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  • 1932
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    Beauty and the Boss

    Beauty and the Boss

    7 1932 HD

    An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

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  • 1926
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    The Little Irish Girl

    The Little Irish Girl

    1 1926 HD

    Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young...

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  • 1935
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    Folies Bergère

    Folies Bergère

    5.4 1935 HD

    An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

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  • 1933
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    Captured!

    Captured!

    5.6 1933 HD

    While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured...

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  • 1951
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    Starlift

    Starlift

    5.6 1951 HD

    To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

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  • 1921
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    Be Reasonable

    Be Reasonable

    7.3 1921 HD

    Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her...

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  • 1934
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    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    5.3 1934 HD

    Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....

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  • 1923
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    Skylarking

    Skylarking

    6 1923 HD

    The story is about a crackpot inventor who manages to get himself in a heap of trouble. Though no fault of his own, it appears that he's run off with...

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  • 1930
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    The Second Floor Mystery

    The Second Floor Mystery

    1 1930 HD

    In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the...

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  • 1924
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    Smile Please

    Smile Please

    5 1924 HD

    Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset....

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  • 1934
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    Upperworld

    Upperworld

    6.3 1934 HD

    A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the...

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  • 1924
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    His New Mamma

    His New Mamma

    4.6 1924 HD

    The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he...

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  • 1930
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    The Life of the Party

    The Life of the Party

    6.3 1930 HD

    Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

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  • 1953
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    Three Sailors and a Girl

    Three Sailors and a Girl

    6 1953 HD

    A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

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  • 1926
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    Footloose Widows

    Footloose Widows

    1 1926 HD

    Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the...

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  • 1940
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    He Married His Wife

    He Married His Wife

    5.1 1940 HD

    Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

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  • 1931
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    Side Show

    Side Show

    5 1931 HD

    A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

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  • 1939
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    The Star Maker

    The Star Maker

    1 1939 HD

    This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

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  • 1931
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    My Past

    My Past

    3.8 1931 HD

    A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.

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  • 1924
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    The Hollywood Kid

    The Hollywood Kid

    5.3 1924 HD

    A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

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  • 1939
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    Here I Am a Stranger

    Here I Am a Stranger

    7 1939 HD

    The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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  • 1928
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    Powder My Back

    Powder My Back

    1 1928 HD

    Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy,...

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  • 1936
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    Private Number

    Private Number

    6.3 1936 HD

    Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler...

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  • 1933
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    The Mind Reader

    The Mind Reader

    6.3 1933 HD

    Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is...

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  • 1929
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    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song

    4.5 1929 HD

    French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French...

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  • 1927
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    The First Auto

    The First Auto

    3.7 1927 HD

    The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

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  • 1938
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    My Lucky Star

    My Lucky Star

    5.3 1938 HD

    George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an...

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  • 1944
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    Barbary Coast Gent

    Barbary Coast Gent

    4.6 1944 HD

    Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...

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  • 1936
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    It Had to Happen

    It Had to Happen

    5.5 1936 HD

    A poor boy rises to power in politics.

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  • 1924
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    A Deep Sea Panic

    A Deep Sea Panic

    1 1924 HD

    A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on board, disguised as a sailor.

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  • 1925
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    Hogan's Alley

    Hogan's Alley

    1 1925 HD

    Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish...

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  • 1921
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    Love and Doughnuts

    Love and Doughnuts

    1 1921 HD

    Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

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  • 1921
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    Bright Eyes

    Bright Eyes

    1 1921 HD

    An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

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  • 1924
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    The Cat's Meow

    The Cat's Meow

    1 1924 HD

    Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

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  • 1920
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    The Heart Snatcher

    The Heart Snatcher

    5.8 1920 HD

    A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who...

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  • 1935
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    Folies Bergère

    Folies Bergère

    1 1935 HD

    Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

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  • 1922
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    On Patrol

    On Patrol

    3 1922 HD

    Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

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  • 1922
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    When Summer Comes

    When Summer Comes

    1 1922 HD

    Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

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  • 1924
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    Shanghaied Lovers

    Shanghaied Lovers

    4.3 1924 HD

    Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

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  • 1922
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    The Duck Hunter

    The Duck Hunter

    1 1922 HD

    A 1922 comedy short.

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  • 1928
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    The Terror

    The Terror

    6 1928 HD

    Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

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  • 1945
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    Ziegfeld Follies

    Ziegfeld Follies

    6.1 1945 HD

    The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

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  • 1923
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    Nip and Tuck

    Nip and Tuck

    1 1923 HD

    Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

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  • 1930
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    Divorce Among Friends

    Divorce Among Friends

    4.4 1930 HD

    George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul...

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  • 1923
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    One Cylinder Love

    One Cylinder Love

    1 1923 HD

    A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an...

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  • 1929
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    The Aviator

    The Aviator

    1 1929 HD

    Misadventures of a bogus flyer.

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  • 1928
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    Beware of Bachelors

    Beware of Bachelors

    1 1928 HD

    A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming...

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  • 1928
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    Conquest

    Conquest

    1 1928 HD

    Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One...

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  • 1930
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    Hold Everything

    Hold Everything

    6 1930 HD

    A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

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  • 1932
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    Winner Take All

    Winner Take All

    5.3 1932 HD

    Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves...

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  • 1916
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    Wife and Auto Trouble

    Wife and Auto Trouble

    5 1916 HD

    A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

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  • 1947
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    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    7.1 1947 HD

    A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the...

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  • 1948
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    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    5.8 1948 HD

    The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

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  • 1928
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    Five and Ten Cent Annie

    Five and Ten Cent Annie

    1 1928 HD

    Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the...

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  • 1929
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    The Hottentot

    The Hottentot

    1 1929 HD

    The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on...

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  • 1952
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    Here We Go Again

    Here We Go Again

    1 1952 HD

    When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then...

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  • 1921
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    Hard Knocks and Love Taps

    Hard Knocks and Love Taps

    1 1921 HD

    When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then...

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  • 1923
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    Flip Flops

    Flip Flops

    5 1923 HD

    An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.

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  • 1926
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    Across the Pacific

    Across the Pacific

    4.5 1926 HD

    Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do...

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  • 1927
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    Ham and Eggs at the Front

    Ham and Eggs at the Front

    1 1927 HD

    Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

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  • 1927
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    If I Were Single

    If I Were Single

    1 1927 HD

    Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a...

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  • 1925
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    Eve's Lover

    Eve's Lover

    1 1925 HD

    Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can...

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  • 1920
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    His Noisy Still

    His Noisy Still

    1 1920 HD

    If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.

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  • 1926
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    The Man Upstairs

    The Man Upstairs

    1 1926 HD

    The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner...

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  • 1970
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    4.2 1970 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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  • 1970
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    6.2 1970 HD

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

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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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