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No, No, Nanette
New JerseyA bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
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The Texan
TexasA TERROR to men! A TORMENT to women! A THRILL for all! — The Texan is a 1930 American Western film directed by John Cromwell and starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Based on the short story "The Double-Dyed Deceiver" by O. Henry, the film is about a daring bandit called the Llano Kid who shoots a young gambler in self-defense and is forced to hide from the law.
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A Man from Wyoming
Wyoming The 1910sA Man from Wyoming is a 1930 American romance film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Gary Cooper, June Collyer, and Regis Toomey. Written by Albert S. Le Vino and John V.A. Weaver, the film is about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
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The Spoilers
AlaskaThis third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time, Gary Cooper and William "Stage" Boyd are cast as gold prospector Glennister and crooked Alaska politician McNamara.
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Leathernecking
HawaiiChick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
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The Girl of the Golden West
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1850sA hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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The Melody Man
New YorkA Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day).
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The Dude Wrangler
WyomingThe Dude Wrangler is a 1930 American western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Lina Basquette, Tom Keene and Clyde Cook.
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Alaskan Knights
AlaskaKrazy Kat is "Nanook Of The North" when he arrives in a bar. First, Krazy becomes smitten with a girl (who looks surprisingly like Minnie Mouse!) and then has a run-in with a violent bandit.
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The Cocoanuts
FloridaParamount's All Talking Musicomedy Sensation — During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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The Virginian
Wyoming"You don't think I want to do this Molly? But you won't ask me to run away - " — A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
New York The 1920sA lost Hollywood musical.
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Welcome Danger
CaliforniaA gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
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Rio Rita
🇲🇽 MexicoZiegfeld's fabulous all-talking, all-singing super screen spectacle — Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
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The Broadway Melody
New YorkAll talking. All singing. All dancing. — The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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The Canary Murder Case
New YorkWho killed the most beautiful woman on Broadway? — A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
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Sunny Side Up
New YorkThe screen's first original all talking, singing, dancing musical comedy. — Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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Street Girl
New YorkHear the gay little trouper who delighted you in silence play the violin on the screen for the first time — A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
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Applause
New YorkShe gave youth and beaty for Applause — This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
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Broadway
New YorkCarl Laemmle's stupendous talking and singing picture. — A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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The Saturday Night Kid
New York The 1920sHear the Bow Lines --- Snap and Sparkle with — Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
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Broadway Babies
New YorkJig Jig Jigaloo — Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
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So This Is College
CaliforniaTHE ALL-TALKING COLLEGIATE LAUGH RIOT! — Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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Mexicali Rose
🇲🇽 MexicoThe owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
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Prohibition
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1920s The 1930sUnited States, Black & White, Silent, Short Film.
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Synthetic Sin
VirginiaIf you had to be bad...could you make good? — A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
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Married in Hollywood
CaliforniaHeir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe. When he makes known his intention to renounce his heritage and marry Mary Lou, his mother has him locked up and orders Mary Lou back to the United States.
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River of Romance
Mississippi The 1830sMississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
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Masked Emotions
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The Girl in the Show
KansasIn this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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The Cock-Eyed World
New YorkTwo Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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Syncopation
New YorkBenny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.
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Wall Street
New YorkA very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.
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Morgan's Last Raid
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sDan Claibourne ( Tim McCoy ) refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
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The Crowd
New York The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sJohn, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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Speedy
New YorkYou've Waited a Year for This But WOW! What a Hit! — Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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The Racket
IllinoisIn this silent film, a renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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The Circus
CaliforniaThe Circus is Here! — Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
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Show People
CaliforniaPeggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.
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The Cameraman
New YorkYou'll laugh yourself completely out of focus! — A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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In Old Arizona
ArizonaThe first all-talking sound-on-film feature. — Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
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The Last Warning
New YorkA producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
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Lonesome
New YorkWith all the glamor and glitter of Coney Island that millions everywhere are always eager to see — Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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The Trail of '98
California Alaska The 1890sSEE It all vividly re-enacted before your eyes...The Klondike Gold Rush...Chilcoot Pass...The gigantic Snow Slide...The White Horse Rapids...The Burning of Dawson...and a Thousand Spectacular Visions of the Century's Greatest Adventure — Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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Glorious Betsy
Maryland The 1800sTHE GLAMOUROUS ROMANCE OF THE BELLE OF BALTIMORE AND NAPOLEON'S BROTHER — Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Lights of New York
New YorkThe first "All Talking" picture — Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
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While the City Sleeps
New YorkNOW! The man of 1,000 faces in a picture with 1,000 THRILLS! — A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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A Lady of Chance
New York New Jersey AlabamaA con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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