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High Tide
CaliforniaA car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that leading up to the accident.
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan
CaliforniaBugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.
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The Hucksters
CaliforniaGable's New Star is Deborah Kerr (rhymes with star) — A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Slick Hare
CaliforniaHumphrey Bogart visits the Mocrumbo Restaurant. He orders fried rabbit and Elmer Fudd has twenty minutes to serve it.
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Merton of the Movies
California The 1910sRED SKELTON'S HOWLING HIT ABOUT HOLLYWOOD! — In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
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Mother Wore Tights
California The 1900sIn our family dad wore the pants but . . . Mother Wore Tights — In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
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California
California The 1850sMighty drama of men who were titans...and a woman who was their match! — "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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Bells of San Fernando
CaliforniaThe bells that rang out gold . . . romance . . . oppression! — Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish immigrant who teams with Mexican gal Gloria Warren to combat land baron Anthony Warde. Whenever the plot lags, Warren sings. Catch the name of "Renault Duncan" in the screenplay credits of Bells of San Fernando. It's really actor Duncan Renaldo, aka "The Cisco Kid" -- which may explain why the film looks like a thinly disguised "Cisco" episode.
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Northwest Outpost
California The 1830sExcitement of Old California! — US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
CaliforniaMurder inside a studio! — Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
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Night Song
CaliforniaHis Music Told of Love He Dared Not Whisper! — A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
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Robin Hood of Monterey
California The 19th CenturyHe Knows His Own STRENGTH...And A Woman's WEAKNESS! — Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband, Don Carlos Belmonte. Eduardo offers Maria money if she will depart the hacienda premises, but she refuses and then accuses Eduardo of making love to her. The old Don doesn't take kindly to his son hitting on his step-mother and attacks him in a rage. The lights go out, the father is killed and Maria blames Eduardo, who escapes from the house, chased by Ricardo's men. The Cisco Kid and Pancho rescue Eduardo, who has been shot, and hide him while they investigate. Cisco discovers that bullets from Maria's gun, a handy little derringer, are the same type that killed Don Carlos. But the Alcalde arrests Cisco and Pancho, and Cisco is "supposedly" executed by a firing squad, but IS NOT shot and escapes by a trick. And now Maria and Ricardo are in real trouble with Cisco on the loose.
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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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Canyon Passage
Oregon The 1850sEvery Exciting Character! — Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850s Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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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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