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Parachute Jumper
New YorkSeventy-five Smackers a Jump- and Most of it Goes to Widows! — An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
New YorkBlackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo, who does the "Dat's all, folks!".
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Deluge
New YorkA massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
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Forgotten
New YorkPapa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Before Morning
New YorkA thrilling picturization of last season's outstanding mystery melodrama. — A night of love, intrigue, death and blackmail leaves stage-star Elise Manning's fate at stake in a conflict with the unscrupulous Doctor Gruell. A rejected lover dies in Miss Manning's apartment, and Gurell implies that the death was murder and attempts to blackmail the actress. The climax brings the actress, her fiancé and the dead-man's wife face-to-face in an emotional denouement.
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Arizona to Broadway
New YorkIn the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir...
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Rainbow Over Broadway
New YorkEx-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.
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Professional Sweetheart
New YorkI want to sin and suffer. Now I just get to suffer. — Glory Eden (Ginger Rogers) is the star of Sponsored Radio show that requires Glory to live up to her pure, virginal, innocent image. Glory is at her breaking point and wants to rebel. To appease her desire for a man, the sponsor agrees to have her marry one of her fans, who turns out to be a hayseed, as long as she extends her contract.
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Havana Widows
New Yorkthey've got what it takes and it takes a lot! — Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Hot Pepper
New YorkIn this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub.Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
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Convention City
New JerseyWe're off to - "Convention City" — Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Parole Girl
New YorkHers is the story of 100,000 Girls! — A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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A Man of Sentiment
New YorkA man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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I Have Lived
New YorkA girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.
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Black Beauty
Virginia"ALL MEN KILL THE THING THEY LOVE" - It Tugs At The Heratstrings Of Humanity! — Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
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American Madness
New York The 1930sThe Great American Picture of Today! — Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Doctor X
New YorkOut-thrills them all! — A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Horse Feathers
MaineThe Maddest Comics of the Screen! — Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Georgia The 1930s The 1920sSix sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience! — A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
New York The 1910sFrom crack-pot civilians to coo-coo privates–they'll lead you a chase so crammed with hysterical laughter, you'll say it's even funnier than their first feature, "Pardon Us." — The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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Skyscraper Souls
New YorkA Drama That Soars Half Way to Heaven and Reaches Half Way to Hell! — Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
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Virtue
New YorkYesterday a Lady with a Past — Today the Wife of the Man She Loved! — Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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Sinners in the Sun
New YorkSouls for Sables! Dreams for Diamonds! Faced with a choice between married poverty and unexcelled luxury! — A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
New YorkIn her innocence she expected days and nights of tender love. What she got was a Bitter Shock! — A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Night After Night
New YorkA former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
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Winner Take All
New YorkHe knocks cupid for a row of hearts! — 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 to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
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Taxi!
New YorkAmidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Me and My Gal
New YorkJaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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They Call It Sin
New YorkIn 1920...They called it "Flaming Youth" TODAY... "They Call it Sin" — An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
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Symphony of Six Million
New YorkA young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Back Street
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA Story that will grip you with its powerful emotional appeal written by one of America's foremost novelists__ A picture with an amazing cast of star players — A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Rockabye
New YorkThe heart-cry of a million mothers! — A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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The Sport Parade
New YorkShe gambled her heart on her college hero! — Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Man Who Played God
New York'A Modern Drama From Real Life' — While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royale returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously. He becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God" but his actions are without sincerity.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
New YorkSumptuous portrayal of sensuous society in the perfumed fragrance of Park Avenue and Paris boudoirs. — A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
New YorkA foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglers", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Flesh
New JerseyHe Traded His Soul for a Smile From Her Lying Lips! — Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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Strange Interlude
New EnglandAN AFTERNOON OF HAPPINESS...that became a LIFETIME OF LIES! — After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
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Big City Blues
New YorkIt's Sweet and Hot! — An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
District of ColumbiaRips The Lid Off! — Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Central Park
New YorkTwo destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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The Heart of New York
New YorkA poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
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Unholy Love
New York The 1930sAn adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
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Three Wise Girls
New YorkA virtuous small town girl supports her mother on her salary as a soda jerk. — Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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The Conquerors
New York The 1920s The 1890s The 1870sA newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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Hypnotized
New JerseyA circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune. He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
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Vanity Street
New YorkA New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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City Streets
New YorkLove and courage pitted against a ruthless hate! — A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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Five Star Final
New York The 1930sA picture as sensational as its subject! — An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.
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