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Pirates of Monterey
California The 1840sROMANTIC ADVENTURE IN EARLY CALIFORNIA! — A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
CaliforniaTHE GAS HOUSE KIDS "GO HOLLYWOOD"...and to Murder! — The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
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Christmas at Camp 119
CaliforniaSecond World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
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The Big Sleep
CaliforniaThe picture they were born for! — Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Lady in the Lake
CaliforniaPrivate detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earlier she had sent her husband a telegram saying she was heading to Mexico to marry Chris Lavery. However Kingsby had recently seen Lavery in the neighbouring Bay City. Marlowe pursues his investigation at the Kingsby's lakeside cottage.
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The Blue Dahlia
CaliforniaDouble dame trouble! Double-barrelled action! — Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Nobody Lives Forever
CaliforniaI killed a man for this kiss so you better make it good ! — A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
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The Man I Love
CaliforniaThere should be a law against knowing the things I found out about men! — Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
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Little Giant
CaliforniaThey're Selling Vacuum Cleaners! — Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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Shadows Over Chinatown
CaliforniaChan follows the trail of a blood-chilling wave of torso slayings! — In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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Northwest Hounded Police
CaliforniaThe wolf escapes from Alka-Fizz prison, but the persistent Sergeant McPoodle (Droopy) of the Canadian Mounties follows his trail wherever he goes.
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Gallant Journey
California The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sOne Of The World's Most Exciting Adventures! — Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
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Up Goes Maisie
CaliforniaUP GOES MAISIE TO NEW HEIGHTS OF HILARITY...ON A SKY-CYCLE BUILT FOR TWO! — A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Flight to Nowhere
CaliforniaAtomic secrets stolen by international terrorists! — A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
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Alias Mr. Twilight
CaliforniaGeoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
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The Well Groomed Bride
CaliforniaTHE BRIDE SAW RED...WHITE...and BLEW! — A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
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Mildred Pierce
CaliforniaThe kind of woman most men want - BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE! — After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.
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Anchors Aweigh
CaliforniaON WAVES OF SONG, LAUGHTER AND ROMANCE ! TWO LOVE-LOST SAILORS ON A FOUR-DAY LEAVE OF FUN AND FRIVOLITY ! — Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Fallen Angel
CaliforniaThe creator of "Laura" does it again! — An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Escape in the Fog
CaliforniaSlipping silently out of the fog... came murder! — A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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The Great Flamarion
California The 1930sGreat with a gun — A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
California The 1900sThe brawling, colorful story of the queen of hearts and the ace of gamblers... with a shock climax such as the screen has never known! — Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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Thrill of a Romance
California The 1940sMusical bliss with every kiss! — A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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The Falcon in San Francisco
CaliforniaThe lure of loveliness and the greed for gold lead four to fearful death...as the Falcon grapples with his most merciless foe! — While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
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Salome, Where She Danced
California The 1860sShe made guns grow cold...and hearts Burn Hot - as she set the West afire! — During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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A Medal for Benny
CaliforniaBenny's girl friend (Dorothy Lamour) is being romanced by the town ne'er do well (Arturo de Cordova) who keeps coming up with get-rich-quick schemes. Benny's father (J. Carrol Naish in an Oscar-nominated performance) is a simple man who is bewildered by the world at large.
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Salty O'Rourke
CaliforniaHe's the King of the Gamblers! — A gambler (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Demarest) find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Nob Hill
CaliforniaAction - Songs - Girls - Glamour and Glory ! — 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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She Went to the Races
CaliforniaA group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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Frisco Sal
California The 19th CenturyThe Shock-Spot of the World in All Its Tameless, Shameless Glory! — Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder.
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High Powered
CaliforniaA BLOCK-BUSTER OF HIGH TENSION THRILLS! — Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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Double Indemnity
California The 1930sIt's love and murder at first sight! — A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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Murder, My Sweet
CaliforniaHaunted by a lovely face... hunted for another's crime! — Gumshoe Philip Marlowe is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy to track down his former girlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone, and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde, the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.
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House of Frankenstein
CaliforniaAll the Screen's Titans of Terror - Together in the Greatest of All SCREEN SENSATIONS! — An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
California The 1940sHeart-Warming Romance . . . Ripped from the Heart! — In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Follow the Boys
CaliforniaThe SONG-STUDDED STAR-STUNNING SAGA of America's show-world at war! — 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 numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Hollywood Canteen
CaliforniaAll of Hollywood's Heart is in it! Most of Hollywood's Stars are in it! — Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Strangers in the Night
CaliforniaIn this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.
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Waterfront
CaliforniaA Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
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Can't Help Singing
California The 1850s The 1840sLOVELY is the Word! DEANNA in TECHNICOLOR for the First Thrilling Time! with the Miracle Melodies of JEROME KERN! — With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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San Diego I Love You
CaliforniaHOWL-ARIOUS HI-JINKS IN AMERICA'S NO. 1 BOOM TOWN! — A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
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Seven Doors to Death
CaliforniaMARKED FOR DOOM! Careers smashed...Romances broken...A lurking figure that strikes with sudden swiftness in the night...Suspense!...Mystery!...Excitement! — An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
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What's Cookin' Doc?
CaliforniaAt the Academy Awards ceremony, Bugs Bunny tries to convince the audience that he deserves the Oscar. Opens with live action scenes of Hollywood.
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Buckaroo Bugs
California The 19th CenturyRed Hot Ryder is sent to catch the Masked Marauder (Bugs Bunny) who is terrorizing a small Western town.
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The Impatient Years
CaliforniaThey found the answer to WAR-TIME MARRIAGES in the middle of a KISS! — Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
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San Fernando Valley
CaliforniaROMANCE! RHYTHM! ACTION! — A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
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Bride by Mistake
CaliforniaThe staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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Marine Raiders
California The 1940sCOURAGE - Cold as the Steel of their Bayonets! ROMANCE - Warm as the Love which Inspires It! ACTION - Shaking the Skies! — A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.
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Barbary Coast Gent
California The 1880sRoaring ACTION! Riotous ROMANCE! — Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Rosie the Riveter
CaliforniaIn this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making due because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
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