Walter DeLeon — Playwright (21)
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The Sophomore (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sophomore
director: Leo McCarey actor: Eddie Quillan / Sally O'Neil …
other title: 風流學生 / L'Étudiant
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
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Six of a Kind (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Six of a Kind
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charles Ruggles / Mary Boland …
other title: Viaje de placer / Poker Party …
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
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Upstage (1926) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Upstage
director: Monta Bell actor: Norma Shearer / Oscar Shaw …
other title: 歌场艳影 / 歌場艷影 …
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America.
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The Big Gamble (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Gamble
director: Fred Niblo actor: William Boyd / Dorothy Sebastian …
other title: 命を売る男 / 西非探奇 …
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
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Birth of the Blues (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Birth of the Blues
director: Victor Schertzinger actor: Bing Crosby / Mary Martin …
other title: El nacimiento del blues / 藍調的誕生 …
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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You're Telling Me! (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
You're Telling Me!
director: Erle C. Kenton actor: W.C. Fields / Joan Marsh …
other title: 유아 텔링 미! / Dollars et Whisky …
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) IMDb Douban
The Big Broadcast of 1936
director: 诺曼·陶罗格 actor: 杰克·奥克 / 乔治·伯恩斯 …
other title: 1936大广播 / 1936年的大广播 …
Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
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Waikiki Wedding (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Waikiki Wedding
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Burns …
other title: 威基基婚礼 / 海外艷婚 …
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
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Union Pacific (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Union Pacific
director: 塞西尔·B·戴米尔 actor: 芭芭拉·斯坦威克 / 乔尔·麦克雷 …
other title: 联太铁路 / 和平联盟 …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Scared Stiff (1953) Douban
Scared Stiff
director: George Marshall actor: 迪恩·马丁 / 杰瑞·刘易斯 …
other title: 两傻探险 / 糊塗福星(港)
Nightclub singer Larry Todd breaks off his romance with a beautiful showgirl when he realizes she's the girlfriend of a murderously jealous gangster. While on the run, Larry mistakenly believes he kills one of the mobsters and is helped to escape police by heiress Mary Carol, who smuggles Larry and partner Myron to Cuba. Mary has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island and, ignoring ominous warnings and threats, decides to take possession. While there, the trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer.
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The Ghost Breakers (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Ghost Breakers
director: 乔治·马歇尔 actor: 鲍勃·霍普 / 宝莲·高黛 …
other title: 古堡捉妖记 / 幽灵粉碎机 …
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
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International House (1933) Douban
International House
director: A·爱德华·萨瑟兰 actor: Peggy Hopkins Joyce / A·爱德华·萨瑟兰 …
other title: 万国酒店
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Cat and the Canary
director: 埃利奥特·纽金特 actor: Elliott Nugent
other title: 猫与金丝雀 / 고양이와 카나리아 …
Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus’ attorney, has gathered Cyrus’ 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans’ mansion for Cyrus’ “reading of the will”. To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir, but, due to a streak of insanity running in the family, a second will has been made in case Joyce falls victim to it. This puts Joyce in danger. Suddenly, Miss Lu, Cyrus’ maid, appears and warns them that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night. Following this, Hendrick, a prison guard, warns them that, “The Cat”, a homicidal maniac has escaped. This sets up Cyrus’ relatives with a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.