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Frisco Waterfront
CaliforniaFrom the Docks to Dictator of a Great State Empire! — As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
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It's a Gift
CaliforniaAfter he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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Fog Over Frisco
CaliforniaSecret pages torn from the life story of a lawless girl! — Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Murder in the Private Car
CaliforniaRuth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed.
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I Cover the Waterfront
CaliforniaShe Married Him for BETTER or for WORSE...MOSTLY WORSE! — An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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Lady Killer
CaliforniaWarner Bros. screen scoop of the year teaming Jimmie again with the girl he slapped all the way from obscurity to fame in "Public Enemy" — An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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The Man from Monterey
California The 1840sHe'll out-fight or out-shoot the toughest hombre of the plains! — A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers
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Mickey's Gala Premier
CaliforniaMickey's film is having a premiere, and all the stars turn out at the Chinese Theatre. Among those shown: Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, Sid Grauman, Mae West. The picture, Galloping Romance (Pegleg Pete kidnaps Minnie, and Mickey gives chase on a variety of animals), starts, and everyone in the audience sways along to the music, then rolls in the aisles with laughter. After, everyone comes on stage to congratulate Mickey; Garbo smothers him with kisses.
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Bosko's Picture Show
California The 1930s The 1890sBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
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Double Harness
CaliforniaThe story of a temporary marriage — After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
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What Price Hollywood?
CaliforniaSassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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Frisco Jenny
California The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sFrisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. When her underling Dutton proposes killing the DA, she kills the underling and must face execution.
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Sinners in the Sun
CaliforniaSouls 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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The Phantom Express
CaliforniaRailroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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By Whose Hand?
CaliforniaA man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
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The Hatchet Man
CaliforniaHe kills! She thrills! — When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
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Million Dollar Legs
California The 1930sIt's Insane -- It's Joyous — A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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Once in a Lifetime
CaliforniaIt's Colossal! — Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Wild Girl
CaliforniaBret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including 1932's Wild Girl. Set in the High Sierras at the end of the Civil War, the "wild girl" of the title is Salome Jane Clay (Joan Bennett). Rather tomboyish and determined, she isn't the vixen that the title suggests; as a matter of fact, she is upset and angry over a man who has tried to take liberties with her. A stranger Charles Farrell shows up, looking for the same man who has incurred Jane's enmity. Farrell has a score to settle, for this man ruined the life and reputation of Farrell's sister. He shoots him, then flees the town with Jane's help. They are pursued by numerous individuals; as they overcome various obstacles, they find themselves falling in love.
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
CaliforniaA murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
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Hollywood Goes Krazy
CaliforniaA short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time
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The Maltese Falcon
CaliforniaA lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
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A Free Soul
CaliforniaShe wasn't a divorcee but she believed that strangers could kiss! — An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
CaliforniaDan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea. Dan soon learns that Tamea wants him and will do nothing without a kiss. But Tamea soon learns that she is different than Dan and Maisie and that makes her angry. Dan decides to go and live on the island with Tamea, but soon finds out that Paradise is not everything that he thought it was.
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The Man Who Came Back
CaliforniaA spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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Broadminded
CaliforniaJack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
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Forgotten Women
CaliforniaActing on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Feet First
CaliforniaAmbitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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The Big Trail
OregonThe most important picture ever produced — Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
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True to the Navy
CaliforniaRuby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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Son of the Gods
CaliforniaThe popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
CaliforniaSTUDIO SECRETS EXPOSED! — Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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The Lash
California The 1850s The 1840sA nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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Fighting Thru
California The 1850sDan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
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Song of the West
California The 1840s100% Natural Color — Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.
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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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So This Is College
CaliforniaTHE ALL-TALKING COLLEGIATE LAUGH RIOT! — Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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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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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 Trail of '98
California 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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Ramona
California The 1880sBased on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
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Clothes Make the Woman
California The 1910sThe strange drama and romance of a princess without a name! Told against the background of grim Russia and gay Hollywood! — A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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Old San Francisco
California The 1900sA Romance of the Days When 'Frisco Was the Paris of America!---The Barbary Coast!---The Fire of 1906!---Massive!---Unprecedented — An Asian villain menaces a family of aristocratic Spanish settlers.
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Rubber Tires
CaliforniaWhen the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
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