Willie Best

Willie Best

William “Willie” Best (May 27, 1916 - February 27, 1962), sometimes known as “Sleep n' Eat,” was an American television and film actor. Best was one of the first African-American film actors and comedians to become well known. In the 21st century, his work, like that of Stepin Fetchit, is sometimes reviled because he was often called upon to play stereotypically lazy, illiterate, and/or simple-minded characters in films. Of the 124 films he appeared in, he received screen credit in at least 77, an unusual feat for an African-American bit player. Willie Best appeared in more than one hundred films of the 1930s and 1940s. Although several sources state that for years he was billed only as “Sleep n' Eat,” Best received credit under this moniker instead of his real name in only six movies: his first film as a bit player (Harold Lloyd's Feet First) and in Up Pops the Devil (1931), The Monster Walks (1932), Kentucky Kernels and West of the Pecos (both 1934), and Murder on a Honeymoon (1935). Best was first loved as a great clown, then later in the 20th century reviled and pitied, before being forgotten in the history of film. Hal Roach called him one of the greatest talents he had ever met. Comedian Bob Hope similarly acclaimed him as “the best actor I know,” while the two were working together in 1940 on The Ghost Breakers. As a supporting actor, Best, like many black actors of his era, was regularly cast in domestic worker or service-oriented roles (though a few times he played the role echoing his previous occupation as a private chauffeur). He was often seen making a brief comic turn as a hotel, airline or train porter, as well as an elevator operator, custodian, butler, valet, waiter, deliveryman, and at least once as a launch pilot (in the 1939 movie Mr. Moto in Danger Island). Willie Best received screen credit most of the time, which was unusual for “bit players,” most in the 1930s and '40s were not accorded due credit. This also happened to white actors in small roles, but black actors were not credited even when their roles were larger. In more than 80 of his movies, he was given a proper character name (as opposed to simple descriptions such as “room service waiter” or “shoe-shine boy”), beginning with his second film. Best played “Chattanooga Brown” in two Charlie Chan films —The Red Dragon in 1945 and Dangerous Money in 1946. He also played the character of “Hipp” in three of RKO’s six Scattergood Baines films with Guy Kibbee: Scattergood Baines (1941), Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942), and Cinderella Swings It in 1943. (Actor Paul White, who played a young version of Best’s “Hipp” in the first film, went on to play “Hipp” in the next three films. Best returned to the role in the last two.) After a drug arrest ended his film career, he worked in television for a while and became known to early TV audiences as “Charlie the Elevator Operator” on CBS's My Little Margie, from 1953 to 1955. He also played Willie, the house servant, handyman and close friend of the title character of ABC’s The Trouble with Father, for its entire run from 1950 to 1955.

  • Title: Willie Best
  • Popularity: 4.157
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1913-05-27
  • Place of Birth: Sunflower, Mississippi, USA
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  • Also Known As: Sleep 'n' Eat, Sleep 'n Eat, Sleep n' Eat
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Willie Best Movies

  • 1952
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    Ellis in Freedomland

    Ellis in Freedomland

    1 1952 HD

    Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the...

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  • 1938
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    Blondie

    Blondie

    7.1 1938 HD

    Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself...

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  • 1939
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    Blondie Brings Up Baby

    Blondie Brings Up Baby

    6.5 1939 HD

    Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically...

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  • 1942
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    Scattergood Survives a Murder

    Scattergood Survives a Murder

    4.5 1942 HD

    Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

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  • 1943
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    Cinderella Swings It

    Cinderella Swings It

    1 1943 HD

    Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay...

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  • 1939
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    The Covered Trailer

    The Covered Trailer

    1 1939 HD

    The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil...

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  • 1941
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    High Sierra

    High Sierra

    7 1941 HD

    Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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  • 1930
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    Feet First

    Feet First

    6.6 1930 HD

    An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

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  • 1940
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    The Ghost Breakers

    The Ghost Breakers

    6.5 1940 HD

    After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...

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  • 1935
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    Hit and Rum

    Hit and Rum

    1 1935 HD

    Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew...

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  • 1942
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    A-Haunting We Will Go

    A-Haunting We Will Go

    6.015 1942 HD

    Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

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  • 1935
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    The Littlest Rebel

    The Littlest Rebel

    6.3 1935 HD

    Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

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  • 1945
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    The Red Dragon

    The Red Dragon

    6.1 1945 HD

    Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.

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  • 1946
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    Dangerous Money

    Dangerous Money

    5.7 1946 HD

    A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his...

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  • 1939
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    Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

    Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

    6 1939 HD

    When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the...

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  • 1936
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    Murder on a Bridle Path

    Murder on a Bridle Path

    5 1936 HD

    When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

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  • 1941
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    Highway West

    Highway West

    5.8 1941 HD

    A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

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  • 1941
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    The Smiling Ghost

    The Smiling Ghost

    6.5 1941 HD

    Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a...

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  • 1942
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    The Hidden Hand

    The Hidden Hand

    6.2 1942 HD

    Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her...

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  • 1934
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    Little Miss Marker

    Little Miss Marker

    6.5 1934 HD

    Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

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  • 1935
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    Murder on a Honeymoon

    Murder on a Honeymoon

    5.8 1935 HD

    A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna...

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  • 1943
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    Cabin in the Sky

    Cabin in the Sky

    6.3 1943 HD

    When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

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  • 1946
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    The Face of Marble

    The Face of Marble

    4.4 1946 HD

    The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles...

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  • 1941
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    Nothing But the Truth

    Nothing But the Truth

    7.1 1941 HD

    A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

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  • 1942
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    Whispering Ghosts

    Whispering Ghosts

    6.9 1942 HD

    A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

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  • 1942
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    Juke Girl

    Juke Girl

    6.5 1942 HD

    During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers...

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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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  • 1942
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    Busses Roar

    Busses Roar

    6.6 1942 HD

    A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

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  • 1945
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    She Wouldn't Say Yes

    She Wouldn't Say Yes

    5.9 1945 HD

    Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with...

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  • 1945
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    Pillow to Post

    Pillow to Post

    5.3 1945 HD

    With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale....

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  • 1944
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    The Girl Who Dared

    The Girl Who Dared

    5.7 1944 HD

    A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.

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  • 1941
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    Road Show

    Road Show

    5.8 1941 HD

    Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an...

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  • 1941
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    The Lady from Cheyenne

    The Lady from Cheyenne

    5.2 1941 HD

    Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

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  • 1937
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    Super-Sleuth

    Super-Sleuth

    5 1937 HD

    A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

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  • 1936
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    Down the Stretch

    Down the Stretch

    5.5 1936 HD

    A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

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  • 1941
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    Kisses for Breakfast

    Kisses for Breakfast

    5.5 1941 HD

    A newlywed develops amnesia and can't remember his wife.

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  • 1946
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    The Bride Wore Boots

    The Bride Wore Boots

    5.9 1946 HD

    A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

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  • 1945
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    The Monster and the Ape

    The Monster and the Ape

    6.3 1945 HD

    A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. ...

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  • 1935
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    Raised and Called

    Raised and Called

    1 1935 HD

    Chandler induces Kennedy to ask the boss for a raise, and to pretend he is married, because the chief has a soft spot for his married employees. So...

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  • 1940
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    Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

    Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

    4.3 1940 HD

    When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the...

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  • 1944
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    Home in Indiana

    Home in Indiana

    5.6 1944 HD

    'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies....

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  • 1938
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    Goodbye Broadway

    Goodbye Broadway

    1 1938 HD

    Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers,...

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  • 1940
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    Money and the Woman

    Money and the Woman

    4.3 1940 HD

    An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

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  • 1936
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    Muss 'em Up

    Muss 'em Up

    5.5 1936 HD

    Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's...

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  • 1938
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    Merrily We Live

    Merrily We Live

    7.2 1938 HD

    Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...

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  • 1938
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    Gold Is Where You Find It

    Gold Is Where You Find It

    6.9 1938 HD

    Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

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  • 1937
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    Meet the Missus

    Meet the Missus

    4 1937 HD

    A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.

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  • 1937
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    Saturday's Heroes

    Saturday's Heroes

    7 1937 HD

    College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

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  • 1947
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    The Red Stallion

    The Red Stallion

    1 1947 HD

    Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.

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  • 1937
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    Deep South

    Deep South

    6 1937 HD

    1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.

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  • 1937
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    The Lady Fights Back

    The Lady Fights Back

    6 1937 HD

    Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale....

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  • 1943
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    The Powers Girl

    The Powers Girl

    6.5 1943 HD

    Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine...

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  • 1938
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    Youth Takes a Fling

    Youth Takes a Fling

    1 1938 HD

    McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

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  • 1937
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    We Who Are About to Die

    We Who Are About to Die

    6.8 1937 HD

    John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

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  • 1943
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    Dixie

    Dixie

    3 1943 HD

    A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

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  • 1945
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    Hold That Blonde!

    Hold That Blonde!

    7 1945 HD

    Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find...

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  • 1935
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    To Beat the Band

    To Beat the Band

    1 1935 HD

    An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the...

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  • 1931
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    Up Pops the Devil

    Up Pops the Devil

    4.2 1931 HD

    The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on...

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  • 1938
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    Everybody's Doing It

    Everybody's Doing It

    5 1938 HD

    Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

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  • 1939
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    At the Circus

    At the Circus

    6.313 1939 HD

    Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take...

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  • 1936
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    Two in Revolt

    Two in Revolt

    6 1936 HD

    A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.

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  • 1936
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    Mummy's Boys

    Mummy's Boys

    4.7 1936 HD

    Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

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  • 1938
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    Spring Madness

    Spring Madness

    3.9 1938 HD

    Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has...

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  • 1935
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    The Nitwits

    The Nitwits

    6.1 1935 HD

    A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

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  • 1934
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    Kentucky Kernels

    Kentucky Kernels

    6.1 1934 HD

    The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and...

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  • 1935
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    Horse Heir

    Horse Heir

    1 1935 HD

    Chick is trying to sell his cheap horse to a lady with a grating and annoying voice...sort of like Betty Boop. Jeanie is married to Tom and...

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  • 1939
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    The Saint Strikes Back

    The Saint Strikes Back

    5.6 1939 HD

    Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Moto in Danger Island

    Mr. Moto in Danger Island

    7 1939 HD

    In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find...

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  • 1939
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    Way Down South

    Way Down South

    5.4 1939 HD

    In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

    Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

    6.9 1939 HD

    Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is...

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  • 1951
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    South of Caliente

    South of Caliente

    1 1951 HD

    "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers stars with his real-life wife, Dale Evans, in this Western about a hardworking farmer who helps a struggling rancher...

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  • 1939
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    Slightly Honorable

    Slightly Honorable

    5.1 1939 HD

    A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

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  • 1936
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    The Bride Walks Out

    The Bride Walks Out

    5.3 1936 HD

    Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that...

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  • 1939
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    6.4 1939 HD

    A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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  • 1935
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    Jalna

    Jalna

    4.8 1935 HD

    A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

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  • 1937
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    Racing Lady

    Racing Lady

    5.3 1937 HD

    A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in...

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  • 1937
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    You Can't Buy Luck

    You Can't Buy Luck

    4.5 1937 HD

    When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

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  • 1936
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    Night Waitress

    Night Waitress

    5.8 1936 HD

    Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low...

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  • 1938
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    Crashing Hollywood

    Crashing Hollywood

    5.8 1938 HD

    A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

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  • 1944
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    Music for Millions

    Music for Millions

    6 1944 HD

    Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is...

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  • 1930
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    Ladies of Leisure

    Ladies of Leisure

    6 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Blondie on a Budget

    Blondie on a Budget

    6 1940 HD

    Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters...

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  • 1940
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    I Take This Woman

    I Take This Woman

    6.2 1940 HD

    On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

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  • 1947
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    Suddenly It's Spring

    Suddenly It's Spring

    4.3 1947 HD

    A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

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  • 1936
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    The Green Pastures

    The Green Pastures

    6.3 1936 HD

    God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black...

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  • 1934
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    West of the Pecos

    West of the Pecos

    1 1934 HD

    Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

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  • 1936
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    Thank You, Jeeves!

    Thank You, Jeeves!

    6 1936 HD

    Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.

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  • 1944
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    The Mark of the Whistler

    The Mark of the Whistler

    5.9 1944 HD

    A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner,...

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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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  • 1935
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    Hot Tip

    Hot Tip

    5 1935 HD

    An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

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  • 1938
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    I'm from the City

    I'm from the City

    5 1938 HD

    Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie"...

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  • 1935
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    The Arizonian

    The Arizonian

    1 1935 HD

    Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

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  • 1936
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    General Spanky

    General Spanky

    5.333 1936 HD

    Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

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  • 1937
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    Mississippi Moods

    Mississippi Moods

    1 1937 HD

    A Leslie Goodwins' feature film.

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  • 1943
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    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    Thank Your Lucky Stars

    6.1 1943 HD

    An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

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  • 1938
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    Vivacious Lady

    Vivacious Lady

    6.8 1938 HD

    College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

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  • 1936
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    Silly Billies

    Silly Billies

    8 1936 HD

    The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...

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  • 1932
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    The Monster Walks

    The Monster Walks

    4.2 1932 HD

    Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died...

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  • 1943
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    The Kansan

    The Kansan

    5.2 1943 HD

    Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

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  • 1962
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    Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy

    Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy

    7.3 1962 HD

    Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.

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  • 2004
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    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    4 2004 HD

    Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

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  • 1938
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    Straight, Place and Show

    Straight, Place and Show

    6 1938 HD

    The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his...

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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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  • 1948
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    Shanghai Chest

    Shanghai Chest

    6.1 1948 HD

    Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected...

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  • 1937
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    Breezing Home

    Breezing Home

    1 1937 HD

    Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.

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  • 1948
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    Half Past Midnight

    Half Past Midnight

    6 1948 HD

    A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the...

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  • 1941
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    Flight from Destiny

    Flight from Destiny

    5.2 1941 HD

    After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes...

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  • 1944
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    The Adventures of Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Mark Twain

    6.6 1944 HD

    A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

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  • 1941
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    Scattergood Baines

    Scattergood Baines

    6 1941 HD

    Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a...

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  • 1939
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    Private Detective

    Private Detective

    6 1939 HD

    A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

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  • 1941
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    Minstrel Days

    Minstrel Days

    1 1941 HD

    This Vitaphone musical featurette features a minstrel show, with traditional interlocutor and Mr. Bones, doing many old time songs (mostly Stephen...

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  • 1931
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    Virtuous Husband

    Virtuous Husband

    1 1931 HD

    When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.

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  • 1931
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    The Guilty Generation

    The Guilty Generation

    6 1931 HD

    The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

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  • 1941
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    The Body Disappears

    The Body Disappears

    5.2 1941 HD

    Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible...

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  • 1952
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    My Little Margie

    My Little Margie

    3 1952 HD

    My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

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  • 1951
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    Racket Squad

    Racket Squad

    6 1951 HD

    Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco,...

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  • 1950
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    The Stu Erwin Show

    The Stu Erwin Show

    6 1950 HD

    The Stu Erwin Show is an American sitcom which aired on ABC for five seasons from 1950 to 1955.

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  • 1954
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    Waterfront

    Waterfront

    7 1954 HD

    Waterfront is an 1954-1955 American series following the adventures of tugboat captain John Herrick, played by Preston Foster.

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