Moroni Olsen

Moroni Olsen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moroni Olsen (June 27, 1889 – November 22, 1954) was an American actor. Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah, to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Martha Hoverholst, who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, but there appears to be no support for this claim. Olsen studied at Weber Stake Academy, the predecessor of Weber State University. He then went to study at the University of Utah, where one of his teachers was Maud May Babcock. During World War I, he sold war bonds for the United States Navy. He also studied and performed in the Eastern United States around this time. In 1923, Olsen organized the "Moroni Olsen Players" out of Ogden. They performed at both Ogden's Orpheum Theatre and at various other locations spread from Salt Lake City to Seattle. After having worked on Broadway, he made his film debut in a 1935 adaptation of The Three Musketeers. He later played a different role in a 1939 comedy version of the story, starring Don Ameche as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers as three dimwitted lackeys who are forced to substitute for the musketeers, who have drunk themselves into a stupor. His most famous role was the voice of the Slave in The Magic Mirror in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Olsen also provided the voice of the senior angel in It's a Wonderful Life. Olsen was an active member of the LDS Church, being a teacher of youth in the Hoolwood Ward. He also was director of the Pilgramage Play of Hollywood for several years.

  • Title: Moroni Olsen
  • Popularity: 2.617
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-06-26
  • Place of Birth: Ogden, Utah, USA
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  • Also Known As: Maroni Olsen, Moroni Olson, John Willard
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Moroni Olsen Movies

  • 1946
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    Notorious

    Notorious

    7.7 1946 HD

    In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war...

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  • 1938
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    7.1 1938 HD

    A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is...

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  • 1940
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    Santa Fe Trail

    Santa Fe Trail

    5.6 1940 HD

    As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

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  • 1945
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    Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce

    7.603 1945 HD

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

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  • 1947
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    Possessed

    Possessed

    6.9 1947 HD

    After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

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  • 1950
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    Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride

    6.975 1950 HD

    Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding...

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  • 1951
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    Father's Little Dividend

    Father's Little Dividend

    6.422 1951 HD

    Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon...

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  • 1949
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    The Fountainhead

    The Fountainhead

    6.8 1949 HD

    An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...

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  • 1954
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    The Long, Long Trailer

    The Long, Long Trailer

    6.8 1954 HD

    A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their...

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  • 1938
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    What Do You Think? Tupapaoo

    What Do You Think? Tupapaoo

    7.5 1938 HD

    An American trader disrupts life on a Polynesian island.

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  • 1939
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    Dust Be My Destiny

    Dust Be My Destiny

    6.1 1939 HD

    Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

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  • 1948
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    Call Northside 777

    Call Northside 777

    6.614 1948 HD

    In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal...

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  • 1946
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    The Strange Woman

    The Strange Woman

    6.3 1946 HD

    In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.

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  • 1947
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    High Wall

    High Wall

    6.1 1947 HD

    Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county...

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  • 1947
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    Life with Father

    Life with Father

    6.5 1947 HD

    A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

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  • 1944
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    Buffalo Bill

    Buffalo Bill

    5.7 1944 HD

    Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.

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  • 1939
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    Allegheny Uprising

    Allegheny Uprising

    5.6 1939 HD

    South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many...

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  • 1939
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    Rose of Washington Square

    Rose of Washington Square

    5.7 1939 HD

    Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

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  • 1944
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    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    6.2 1944 HD

    Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the...

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  • 1935
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    Annie Oakley

    Annie Oakley

    6.367 1935 HD

    Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

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  • 1947
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    The Long Night

    The Long Night

    5.806 1947 HD

    City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

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  • 1942
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    Nazi Agent

    Nazi Agent

    6.6 1942 HD

    Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother...

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  • 1942
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    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key

    6.59 1942 HD

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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  • 1941
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    Dive Bomber

    Dive Bomber

    6.3 1941 HD

    A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a...

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  • 1937
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    The Last Gangster

    The Last Gangster

    6.3 1937 HD

    A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and...

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  • 1941
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    Dangerously They Live

    Dangerously They Live

    5.9 1941 HD

    A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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  • 1945
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    Pride of the Marines

    Pride of the Marines

    6.5 1945 HD

    Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be...

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  • 1951
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    No Questions Asked

    No Questions Asked

    6 1951 HD

    With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the...

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  • 1940
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    Brigham Young

    Brigham Young

    4.4 1940 HD

    Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

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  • 1941
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    One Foot in Heaven

    One Foot in Heaven

    6.6 1941 HD

    Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

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  • 1945
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    Week-End at the Waldorf

    Week-End at the Waldorf

    6 1945 HD

    Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

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  • 1953
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    Marry Me Again

    Marry Me Again

    1 1953 HD

    Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars...

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  • 1946
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    The Walls Came Tumbling Down

    The Walls Came Tumbling Down

    5.857 1946 HD

    A PI investigates a priest's murder.

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  • 1944
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    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    6.6 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.4 1935 HD

    The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most...

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  • 1944
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    Roger Touhy, Gangster

    Roger Touhy, Gangster

    6 1944 HD

    Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by...

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  • 1952
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    At Sword's Point

    At Sword's Point

    4.8 1952 HD

    France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize...

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  • 1940
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    East of the River

    East of the River

    5.7 1940 HD

    Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

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  • 1952
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    Washington Story

    Washington Story

    6 1952 HD

    A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

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  • 1935
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    6.6 1935 HD

    A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things...

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  • 1936
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    Grand Jury

    Grand Jury

    7 1936 HD

    When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

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  • 1946
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    Boys' Ranch

    Boys' Ranch

    6.5 1946 HD

    A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

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  • 1939
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    Code of the Secret Service

    Code of the Secret Service

    3.5 1939 HD

    Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

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  • 1939
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    Barricade

    Barricade

    5 1939 HD

    In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

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  • 1947
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    That Hagen Girl

    That Hagen Girl

    5.2 1947 HD

    Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her...

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  • 1953
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    So This Is Love

    So This Is Love

    5.5 1953 HD

    Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

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  • 1941
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    Life with Henry

    Life with Henry

    5 1941 HD

    Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

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  • 1948
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    Up in Central Park

    Up in Central Park

    7 1948 HD

    A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

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  • 1942
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    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

    1 1942 HD

    In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband,...

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  • 1935
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    We're Only Human

    We're Only Human

    6.5 1935 HD

    A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

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  • 1936
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    M'Liss

    M'Liss

    5 1936 HD

    The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young...

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  • 1949
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    Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

    6.5 1949 HD

    When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

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  • 1936
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    Yellow Dust

    Yellow Dust

    4 1936 HD

    After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

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  • 1938
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    Submarine Patrol

    Submarine Patrol

    6.6 1938 HD

    A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

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  • 1938
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    Kentucky

    Kentucky

    5.7 1938 HD

    Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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  • 1939
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    Susannah of the Mounties

    Susannah of the Mounties

    6.3 1939 HD

    This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by...

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  • 1936
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    Mary of Scotland

    Mary of Scotland

    6.3 1936 HD

    The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

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  • 1952
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    Lone Star

    Lone Star

    5.5 1952 HD

    Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam...

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  • 1938
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    There Goes My Heart

    There Goes My Heart

    7.154 1938 HD

    An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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  • 1939
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    That's Right – You're Wrong

    That's Right – You're Wrong

    5.7 1939 HD

    J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program...

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  • 1948
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    Command Decision

    Command Decision

    6.6 1948 HD

    High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

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  • 1939
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    Homicide Bureau

    Homicide Bureau

    6 1939 HD

    After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide...

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  • 1936
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    Two in Revolt

    Two in Revolt

    6 1936 HD

    A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.

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  • 1936
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    Mummy's Boys

    Mummy's Boys

    4.7 1936 HD

    Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

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  • 1940
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    Virginia City

    Virginia City

    6.1 1940 HD

    Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

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  • 1939
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    5.8 1939 HD

    A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under...

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  • 1941
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    Three Sons o' Guns

    Three Sons o' Guns

    5 1941 HD

    Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

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  • 1936
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    The Witness Chair

    The Witness Chair

    6.2 1936 HD

    Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking...

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  • 1945
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    Don't Fence Me In

    Don't Fence Me In

    4.3 1945 HD

    Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of...

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  • 1937
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    Adventure's End

    Adventure's End

    5.5 1937 HD

    Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being...

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  • 1938
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    6 1938 HD

    Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

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  • 1946
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    8.273 1946 HD

    A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich...

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  • 1943
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    Air Force

    Air Force

    6.4 1943 HD

    The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of...

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  • 1949
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    Task Force

    Task Force

    7 1949 HD

    After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the...

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  • 1940
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    Brother Rat and a Baby

    Brother Rat and a Baby

    5.2 1940 HD

    Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

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  • 1936
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    The Farmer in the Dell

    The Farmer in the Dell

    1 1936 HD

    An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

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  • 1951
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    Submarine Command

    Submarine Command

    5.6 1951 HD

    Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II....

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  • 1936
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    The Plough and the Stars

    The Plough and the Stars

    5.6 1936 HD

    A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

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  • 1938
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    Gold Is Where You Find It

    Gold Is Where You Find It

    6.9 1938 HD

    Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

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  • 1938
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    That Certain Age

    That Certain Age

    5 1938 HD

    Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send...

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  • 1947
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    Black Gold

    Black Gold

    6 1947 HD

    A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

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  • 1942
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    My Favorite Spy

    My Favorite Spy

    5.2 1942 HD

    The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

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  • 1941
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    Respect the Law

    Respect the Law

    6 1941 HD

    Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.

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  • 1942
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    Sundown Jim

    Sundown Jim

    1 1942 HD

    US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local...

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  • 1951
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    Payment on Demand

    Payment on Demand

    6.2 1951 HD

    David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David...

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  • 1937
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    The Soldier and the Lady

    The Soldier and the Lady

    6.5 1937 HD

    In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...

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  • 1954
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    Sign of the Pagan

    Sign of the Pagan

    5.2 1954 HD

    Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor...

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  • 1939
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    Off the Record

    Off the Record

    6 1939 HD

    After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

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  • 1940
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    If I Had My Way

    If I Had My Way

    6.4 1940 HD

    Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat,...

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  • 1939
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    The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights

    6 1939 HD

    This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political...

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.1 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

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  • 1943
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    We've Never Been Licked

    We've Never Been Licked

    1 1943 HD

    Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love...

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  • 1946
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    From This Day Forward

    From This Day Forward

    5.2 1946 HD

    A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has...

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  • 1944
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    Cobra Woman

    Cobra Woman

    5.2 1944 HD

    A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

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  • 1942
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    Reunion in France

    Reunion in France

    6.6 1942 HD

    Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

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  • 1939
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    Invisible Stripes

    Invisible Stripes

    6.1 1939 HD

    A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.3 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1934
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    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday

    6.4 1934 HD

    After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...

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  • 1951
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    I Love Lucy

    I Love Lucy

    8 1951 HD

    Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana...

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