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8.2
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79
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79
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4.2
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99
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90
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100
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cc age 12+

Citizen Kane (1941)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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71
61
7.0
/4183/
68
/58/
65
/56/
3.4
/3356/
100
/7/
59
/71/

Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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50
31
5.8
/2610/
54
/30/
57
/32/
2.9
/1308/
23
/30/

Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
poster
52
19
6.3
/799/
55
/12/
61
/14/
3.2
/848/
20
/66/

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
poster
59
11
6.5
/729/
71
/5/
54
/14/
3.2
/284/
45
/6/

Devil's Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
poster
50
11
5.9
/443/
60
/11/
55
/9/
3.1
/328/
17
/130/

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
poster
?
6.3
/72/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Bum Voyage (1934)
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
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?
6.1
/31/

Riders of Black River (1939)
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
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?
6.5
/72/
50
/2/

The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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?
6.6
/56/
60
/1/

Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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7.4
/33/
5
/1/

Overland with Kit Carson (1939)
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
poster
65
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6.8
/136/
60
/1/
60
/1/

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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6.7
/56/
50
/1/

One in a Million (1935)
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
poster
51
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4.6
/245/
47
/4/
48
/8/

Midnight Phantom (1935)
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
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50
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6.0
/186/
60
/2/
40
/1/

One Crowded Night (1940)
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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52
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5.0
/300/
58
/6/
48
/12/

Strangers of the Evening (1932)
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
poster
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6.0
/49/
20
/1/

Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
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6.0
/139/
70
/1/
58
/4/

Sunset on the Desert (1942)
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
poster
The Roku Channel
54
?
5.9
/261/
64
/5/
58
/5/
36
/4/

The Arizona Kid (1939)
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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7.0
/90/
70
/1/
63
/3/

Pacific Blackout (1941)
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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56
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6.2
/233/
45
/2/
47
/3/

Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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60
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6.3
/595/
55
/5/
61
/9/
3.2
/215/

Coney Island (1943)
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
poster
60
?
6.6
/508/
70
/5/
53
/5/
3.3
/204/
46
/4/

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
poster
55
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6.6
/108/
55
/2/
50
/1/

The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
poster
?
5.6
/67/

Private Affairs (1940)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
poster
Starz
59
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6.4
/700/
58
/11/
51
/11/

Wells Fargo (1937)
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
poster
60
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6.3
/219/
61
/7/
52
/4/

Dr. Broadway (1942)
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
poster
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6.2
/109/
55
/1/

Alibi for Murder (1936)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
poster
55
?
5.7
/480/
53
/12/
55
/8/

The Night Riders (1939)
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
poster
?
5.2
/27/

Down on the Farm (1938)
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
poster
57
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6.4
/274/
50
/3/

Crazy House (1943)
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
poster
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7.1
/42/
70
/1/

Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
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5.8
/249/
67
/4/
44
/4/

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
poster
52
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5.7
/319/
50
/2/
49
/11/

Alcatraz Island (1937)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
poster
54
?
5.6
/197/
40
/3/
52
/4/

Below the Deadline (1936)
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
poster
64
?
6.7
/574/
72
/11/
50
/6/
3.3
/226/

Girl Missing (1933)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.


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