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This Is the Army (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
This Is the Army
director: Michael Curtiz actor: George Murphy / Joan Leslie …
other title: Esto es el ejército / 这就是军队 …
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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My Blue Heaven (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
My Blue Heaven
director: Henry Koster actor: Betty Grable / Dan Dailey …
other title: 藍天堂花落花開 / 藍天堂 …
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
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A Millionaire for Christy (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Millionaire for Christy
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Eleanor Parker …
other title: Un millonario para Christy / Je veux un millionnaire
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.
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The Bride Goes Wild (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Bride Goes Wild
director: Norman Taurog actor: Van Johnson / June Allyson …
other title: Ángel sin alas / La mariée est folle …
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
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Don't Bet on Women (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Don't Bet on Women
director: William K. Howard actor: Edmund Lowe / Jeanette MacDonald …
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...
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Day of Reckoning (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Day of Reckoning
director: Charles Brabin actor: Richard Dix / Madge Evans …
other title: El desquite
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Speed (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Speed
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: James Stewart / Wendy Barrie …
other title: La prueba suprema
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
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A Tiger Walks (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Tiger Walks
director: Norman Tokar actor: Brian Keith / Vera Miles …
other title: Der Tiger ist los / Les Pas du Tigre …
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
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On Borrowed Time (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
On Borrowed Time
director: Harold S. Bucquet actor: 莱昂内尔·巴里摩尔 / 塞德里克·哈德威克 …
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.