Jo Swerling — Playwright (30)
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Dirigible (1931)
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Frank Capra actor: Jack Holt / Ralph Graves …
other title: Das Luftschiff / Le dirigeable …
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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Confirm or Deny (1941)
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Archie Mayo actor: Don Ameche / Joan Bennett …
other title: Correspondente Especial / 烽火情鸳 …
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Ladies of Leisure (1930)
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Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Lowell Sherman …
other title: Femmes de luxe / Mujeres ligeras …
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
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Albert S. Rogell actor: Wallace Ford / Dorothy Tree …
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.
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Man Against Woman (1932)
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Irving Cummings actor: Jack Holt / Lillian Miles …
other title: L'Épreuve de la haine
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
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Double Wedding (1937)
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理查德·索普 actor: 威廉·鲍威尔 / 玛娜·洛伊 …
other title: 二次蜜月 / 银幕情侣集锦之二次蜜月 …
Waldo and Irene have been living with Margit for the four years that they have been engaged. Margit has planned the wedding and the honeymoon - in fact, Margit plans everything down to what they will have for breakfast every day. The only problem is that Waldo is a milquetoast and Irene does not want to be married to a milquetoast. So she says she is in love with Charlie, a bohemian artist/producer who lives in a trailer behind Spike's Place. When Margit confronts Charlie about giving up Irene, Charlie sees that she is the one for him. To make everyone happy, Charlie will have to help Waldo get a backbone. Written by Tony Fontana {tony.fontana@spacebbs.com}
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Gallagher (1931)
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弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 洛丽泰·扬 / 罗伯特·威廉斯 Robert Williams …
other title: 银发女郎 / Platinum Blonde …
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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The Westerner (1940)
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威廉·惠勒 actor: 加里·库珀 / 沃尔特·布伦南 …
other title: 西部人 / 草莽英雄(港) …
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.