George Raft

George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940). Description above from the Wikipedia article George Raft, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: George Raft
  • Popularity: 8.229
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-09-26
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: George Ranft, Georgie, Джордж Рафт
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George Raft Movies

  • 1959
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    Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot

    8.095 1959 HD

    Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join...

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  • 1960
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    Ocean's Eleven

    Ocean's Eleven

    6.361 1960 HD

    Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

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  • 1932
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    Scarface

    Scarface

    7.5 1932 HD

    In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

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  • 1968
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    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Orgy

    6.2 1968 HD

    Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

    Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

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  • 1954
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    Rogue Cop

    Rogue Cop

    5.3 1954 HD

    A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

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  • 1941
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    Manpower

    Manpower

    6.7 1941 HD

    Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

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  • 1967
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1967 HD

    Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will...

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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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  • 1978
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    Sextette

    Sextette

    3.7 1978 HD

    On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is sought to intervene in a political dispute between nations,...

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  • 1968
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    Skidoo

    Skidoo

    4.9 1968 HD

    Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs,...

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  • 1955
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    A Bullet for Joey

    A Bullet for Joey

    5.5 1955 HD

    Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to...

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  • 1944
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    Follow the Boys

    Follow the Boys

    5.2 1944 HD

    During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...

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  • 1943
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    Background to Danger

    Background to Danger

    6.6 1943 HD

    An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

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  • 1961
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    The Ladies Man

    The Ladies Man

    6.3 1961 HD

    After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which...

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  • 1945
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    Johnny Angel

    Johnny Angel

    5.9 1945 HD

    George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

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  • 1939
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    Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die

    6.726 1939 HD

    A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...

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  • 1980
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    The Man with Bogart's Face

    The Man with Bogart's Face

    6.4 1980 HD

    In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly...

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  • 1935
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    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key

    6.3 1935 HD

    When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and...

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  • 1929
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    Queen of the Night Clubs

    Queen of the Night Clubs

    1 1929 HD

    Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

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  • 1937
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    Souls at Sea

    Souls at Sea

    5.9 1937 HD

    Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

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  • 1949
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    Johnny Allegro

    Johnny Allegro

    6.2 1949 HD

    Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the...

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  • 1954
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    Black Widow

    Black Widow

    6.3 1954 HD

    A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

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  • 1946
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    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    5.6 1946 HD

    In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne...

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  • 1940
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    The House Across the Bay

    The House Across the Bay

    5.3 1940 HD

    Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...

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  • 1938
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    You and Me

    You and Me

    6.7 1938 HD

    Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight....

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  • 1939
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    I Stole a Million

    I Stole a Million

    6 1939 HD

    A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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  • 1940
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    They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night

    6.855 1940 HD

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

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  • 1947
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    Intrigue

    Intrigue

    5 1947 HD

    Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black...

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  • 1949
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    A Dangerous Profession

    A Dangerous Profession

    5.6 1949 HD

    A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.

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  • 1941
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    Breakdowns of 1941

    Breakdowns of 1941

    7 1941 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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  • 1932
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    Night After Night

    Night After Night

    6.2 1932 HD

    A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

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  • 1983
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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

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  • 1952
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    Loan Shark

    Loan Shark

    5.8 1952 HD

    A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan...

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  • 1948
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    Race Street

    Race Street

    5.8 1948 HD

    A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

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  • 1929
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    Gold Diggers of Broadway

    Gold Diggers of Broadway

    7 1929 HD

    Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

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  • 1946
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    Whistle Stop

    Whistle Stop

    4.5 1946 HD

    When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery...

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  • 1967
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    Five Golden Dragons

    Five Golden Dragons

    5.4 1967 HD

    While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden...

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  • 1966
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    The Upper Hand

    The Upper Hand

    6.295 1966 HD

    In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an...

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  • 1938
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    Spawn of the North

    Spawn of the North

    5.611 1938 HD

    Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

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  • 1947
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    Christmas Eve

    Christmas Eve

    5.333 1947 HD

    The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three...

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  • 1950
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    We Will All Go to Paris

    We Will All Go to Paris

    5.2 1950 HD

    The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.

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  • 1942
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    Broadway

    Broadway

    5.5 1942 HD

    Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.6 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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  • 1959
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    Jet Over The Atlantic

    Jet Over The Atlantic

    5.4 1959 HD

    Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George...

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  • 1964
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    The Patsy

    The Patsy

    6.2 1964 HD

    When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy...

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  • 1931
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    Palmy Days

    Palmy Days

    7 1931 HD

    Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony...

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  • 2008
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    Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

    Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

    6.9 2008 HD

    Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

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  • 1931
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    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions

    7.1 1931 HD

    A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a...

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  • 1951
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    I'll Get You for This

    I'll Get You for This

    6.8 1951 HD

    Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino....

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  • 1933
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    Pick-up

    Pick-up

    4.8 1933 HD

    The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison,...

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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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  • 1934
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    The Trumpet Blows

    The Trumpet Blows

    1 1934 HD

    In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...

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  • 1934
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    Limehouse Blues

    Limehouse Blues

    4.2 1934 HD

    Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he...

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  • 1973
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    The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

    The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

    6.8 1973 HD

    A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known...

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  • 1934
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    Bolero

    Bolero

    6.1 1934 HD

    The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

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  • 1953
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    The Man From Cairo

    The Man From Cairo

    4.8 1953 HD

    "The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds...

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  • 1949
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    Outpost in Morocco

    Outpost in Morocco

    4.8 1949 HD

    Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he...

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  • 1933
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    Midnight Club

    Midnight Club

    1 1933 HD

    With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy...

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  • 1945
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    Nob Hill

    Nob Hill

    5.7 1945 HD

    A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.

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  • 1935
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    She Couldn't Take It

    She Couldn't Take It

    4.5 1935 HD

    The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

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  • 1935
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    Every Night at Eight

    Every Night at Eight

    7.5 1935 HD

    Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their...

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  • 1934
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    All of Me

    All of Me

    6 1934 HD

    A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

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  • 1932
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    Madame Racketeer

    Madame Racketeer

    4.8 1932 HD

    International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...

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  • 1933
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    The Bowery

    The Bowery

    5 1933 HD

    "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

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  • 1932
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    Dancers in the Dark

    Dancers in the Dark

    4.8 1932 HD

    A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a...

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  • 1935
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    Stolen Harmony

    Stolen Harmony

    6 1935 HD

    Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

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  • 1932
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    Night World

    Night World

    6.7 1932 HD

    "Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

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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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  • 1936
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    Yours for the Asking

    Yours for the Asking

    1 1936 HD

    Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

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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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  • 1929
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    Side Street

    Side Street

    5.7 1929 HD

    Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

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  • 1933
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    Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

    1 1933 HD

    Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

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  • 2011
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    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    9 2011 HD

    Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

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  • 1946
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    Mr. Ace

    Mr. Ace

    5.6 1946 HD

    A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.

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  • 1994
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    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

    Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

    1 1994 HD

    As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio...

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  • 1932
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    Under-Cover Man

    Under-Cover Man

    4.5 1932 HD

    When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...

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  • 1952
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    Escape Route

    Escape Route

    5.3 1952 HD

    When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

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  • 1943
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    Stage Door Canteen

    Stage Door Canteen

    6.1 1943 HD

    A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...

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  • 1935
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    Rumba

    Rumba

    6 1935 HD

    A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.

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  • 1950
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    Riviera Dream

    Riviera Dream

    1 1950 HD

    This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French...

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  • 1972
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    Hammersmith Is Out

    Hammersmith Is Out

    6.2 1972 HD

    The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient...

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  • 1935
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    The Fashion Side of Hollywood

    The Fashion Side of Hollywood

    6 1935 HD

    Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

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  • 1972
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    Deadhead Miles

    Deadhead Miles

    5.4 1972 HD

    A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non...

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  • 1940
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    Breakdowns of 1940

    Breakdowns of 1940

    4 1940 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

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  • 1975
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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    5.7 1975 HD

    Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

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  • 1939
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    The Lady's from Kentucky

    The Lady's from Kentucky

    1 1939 HD

    Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in...

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  • 1931
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    Hush Money

    Hush Money

    1 1931 HD

    Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old associate foiled by friendly detective.

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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    6 1941 HD

    Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's...

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  • 1939
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    Invisible Stripes

    Invisible Stripes

    6.1 1939 HD

    A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

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  • 1942
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    Breakdowns of 1942

    Breakdowns of 1942

    6 1942 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

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  • 1964
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    For Those Who Think Young

    For Those Who Think Young

    5.2 1964 HD

    A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1966
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    Batman

    Batman

    7.306 1966 HD

    Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1953
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    I'm the Law

    I'm the Law

    5 1953 HD

    I'm the Law is the title of a 30-minute syndicated American television police drama series which aired in 1953 starring George Raft as Lt. George...

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  • 1954
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    The Jimmy Durante Show

    The Jimmy Durante Show

    1 1954 HD

    The Jimmy Durante Show is a 51-episode half-hour comedy/variety television program presented live on NBC from October 2, 1954 to June 23, 1956.

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  • 1950
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    The Jack Benny Program

    The Jack Benny Program

    7.733 1950 HD

    Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1967
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    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

    6.4 1967 HD

    An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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