Minor Watson

Minor Watson

Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor. He appeared in 111 movies made between 1913 and 1956. His credits included Boys Town (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Kings Row (1942), Guadalcanal Diary (1943), Bewitched (1945), The Virginian (1946), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).

  • Title: Minor Watson
  • Popularity: 1.036
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-12-22
  • Place of Birth: Marianna, Arkansas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Minor S. Watson
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Minor Watson Movies

  • 1942
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    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    Yankee Doodle Dandy

    7 1942 HD

    A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

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  • 1942
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    Woman of the Year

    Woman of the Year

    6.9 1942 HD

    Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...

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  • 1935
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    Charlie Chan in Paris

    Charlie Chan in Paris

    6.5 1935 HD

    Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is...

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  • 1937
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    Dead End

    Dead End

    6.963 1937 HD

    Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

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  • 1949
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    The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon

    6.5 1949 HD

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in...

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  • 1956
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    Trapeze

    Trapeze

    6.2 1956 HD

    A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a...

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  • 1949
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    Beyond the Forest

    Beyond the Forest

    6.8 1949 HD

    Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead....

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  • 1945
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    5.3 1945 HD

    A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

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  • 1938
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    Boys Town

    Boys Town

    6.7 1938 HD

    Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

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  • 1944
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    The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home

    7.1 1944 HD

    On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

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  • 1946
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    Courage of Lassie

    Courage of Lassie

    5.7 1946 HD

    Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from...

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  • 1950
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    The Jackie Robinson Story

    The Jackie Robinson Story

    6.4 1950 HD

    Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

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  • 1943
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    Guadalcanal Diary

    Guadalcanal Diary

    5.6 1943 HD

    Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...

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  • 1942
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    Gentleman Jim

    Gentleman Jim

    7.2 1942 HD

    As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

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  • 1941
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    Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

    6.1 1941 HD

    After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

    When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot...

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  • 1940
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    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    6.8 1940 HD

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

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  • 1944
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    The Falcon Out West

    The Falcon Out West

    5.5 1944 HD

    When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom,...

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  • 1913
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    Cupid and Three

    Cupid and Three

    1 1913 HD

    Arthur and Ben are friendly rivals for the hand of Celia. Celia, however, prefers Ben and tries to discourage Arthur. Arthur is a little bit peeved...

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  • 1913
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    Love Incognito

    Love Incognito

    1 1913 HD

    Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the street, he is overjoyed to find his friend is...

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  • 1913
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    Day by Day

    Day by Day

    1 1913 HD

    Day by Day film

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  • 1942
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    The Big Shot

    The Big Shot

    6.3 1942 HD

    Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally,...

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  • 1939
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    Maisie

    Maisie

    4.7 1939 HD

    Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch...

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  • 1940
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    Hidden Gold

    Hidden Gold

    6 1940 HD

    Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may...

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  • 1952
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    My Son John

    My Son John

    5.2 1952 HD

    In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.

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  • 1913
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    Dollars-Pounds-Sense

    Dollars-Pounds-Sense

    1 1913 HD

    "You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him...

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  • 1942
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    Kings Row

    Kings Row

    7.2 1942 HD

    Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

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  • 1952
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    The Star

    The Star

    7.2 1952 HD

    Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen,...

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  • 1939
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    6.4 1939 HD

    Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

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  • 1940
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    Young People

    Young People

    4.6 1940 HD

    Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

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  • 1941
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    Birth of the Blues

    Birth of the Blues

    5.3 1941 HD

    Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...

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  • 1937
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    That Certain Woman

    That Certain Woman

    6.1 1937 HD

    A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

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  • 1950
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    Mister 880

    Mister 880

    7 1950 HD

    The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has...

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  • 1945
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    Saratoga Trunk

    Saratoga Trunk

    5.6 1945 HD

    An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has...

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  • 1939
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    Angels Wash Their Faces

    Angels Wash Their Faces

    6.4 1939 HD

    A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up...

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  • 1938
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    While New York Sleeps

    While New York Sleeps

    1 1938 HD

    Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

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  • 1938
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    Of Human Hearts

    Of Human Hearts

    5.8 1938 HD

    This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood Classic Special

    Hollywood Classic Special

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1941
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    Mr. District Attorney

    Mr. District Attorney

    6.2 1941 HD

    An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

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  • 1935
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    6 1935 HD

    "Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

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  • 1935
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    Mary Jane's Pa

    Mary Jane's Pa

    6 1935 HD

    Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

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  • 1938
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    Stablemates

    Stablemates

    4.5 1938 HD

    A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

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  • 1940
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    Viva Cisco Kid

    Viva Cisco Kid

    5.5 1940 HD

    Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to...

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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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  • 1940
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    Gallant Sons

    Gallant Sons

    7.2 1940 HD

    When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

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  • 1944
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    That's My Baby!

    That's My Baby!

    4.5 1944 HD

    A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton...

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  • 1935
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    Age of Indiscretion

    Age of Indiscretion

    5.2 1935 HD

    A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with...

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  • 1937
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    Saturday's Heroes

    Saturday's Heroes

    7 1937 HD

    College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

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  • 1939
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    The Llano Kid

    The Llano Kid

    1 1939 HD

    Lora Travers is the only person who can identify hold-up artist The Llano Kid and she persuades him to come in on a scheme with her and her husband....

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  • 1948
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    A Southern Yankee

    A Southern Yankee

    5.2 1948 HD

    Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the...

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  • 1952
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    Face to Face

    Face to Face

    5.7 1952 HD

    Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on...

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  • 1937
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    When's Your Birthday?

    When's Your Birthday?

    4 1937 HD

    Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

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  • 1938
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    Love, Honor and Behave

    Love, Honor and Behave

    3.5 1938 HD

    Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.

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  • 1941
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    Kiss the Boys Goodbye

    Kiss the Boys Goodbye

    5 1941 HD

    New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her...

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  • 1938
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    Fast Company

    Fast Company

    5.4 1938 HD

    Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

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  • 1931
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    24 Hours

    24 Hours

    5.5 1931 HD

    A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

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  • 1939
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    Here I Am a Stranger

    Here I Am a Stranger

    7 1939 HD

    The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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  • 1939
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    The Flying Irishman

    The Flying Irishman

    4.6 1939 HD

    This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

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  • 1937
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    The Woman I Love

    The Woman I Love

    1 1937 HD

    In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

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  • 1943
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    Happy Land

    Happy Land

    6.2 1943 HD

    An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

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  • 1945
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    You Came Along

    You Came Along

    7 1945 HD

    War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

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  • 1951
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    Bright Victory

    Bright Victory

    6.9 1951 HD

    A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

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  • 1951
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    As Young as You Feel

    As Young as You Feel

    6.7 1951 HD

    Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old...

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  • 1942
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    Frisco Lil

    Frisco Lil

    8 1942 HD

    Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love...

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  • 1939
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    Television Spy

    Television Spy

    5 1939 HD

    A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

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  • 1943
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    Yanks Ahoy

    Yanks Ahoy

    6 1943 HD

    Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.

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  • 1951
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    Little Egypt

    Little Egypt

    1 1951 HD

    A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1935
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    Mister Dynamite

    Mister Dynamite

    6 1935 HD

    A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

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  • 1940
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    20 Mule Team

    20 Mule Team

    6 1940 HD

    It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...

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  • 1939
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    Stand Up and Fight

    Stand Up and Fight

    5.8 1939 HD

    A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

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  • 1944
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    Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout

    Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout

    1 1944 HD

    Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

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  • 1937
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    Navy Blue and Gold

    Navy Blue and Gold

    5.9 1937 HD

    Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

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  • 1939
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    The Hardys Ride High

    The Hardys Ride High

    6 1939 HD

    Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2...

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  • 1939
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    News Is Made at Night

    News Is Made at Night

    4.5 1939 HD

    Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

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  • 1944
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    Christmas Holiday

    Christmas Holiday

    6.4 1944 HD

    Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...

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  • 1940
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    Rangers of Fortune

    Rangers of Fortune

    5 1940 HD

    Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small...

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  • 1943
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    Princess O'Rourke

    Princess O'Rourke

    6.4 1943 HD

    A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

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  • 1941
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    The Parson of Panamint

    The Parson of Panamint

    5 1941 HD

    As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the...

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  • 1943
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    Power of the Press

    Power of the Press

    6.2 1943 HD

    During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war...

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  • 1935
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    Lady Tubbs

    Lady Tubbs

    1 1935 HD

    A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

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  • 1956
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    The Ambassador's Daughter

    The Ambassador's Daughter

    4.3 1956 HD

    While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.

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  • 1934
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    The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness

    5.8 1934 HD

    Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local...

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  • 1934
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    Babbitt

    Babbitt

    6 1934 HD

    Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George...

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  • 1952
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    Untamed Frontier

    Untamed Frontier

    7.2 1952 HD

    The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in...

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    4.2 1955 HD

    This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood...

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  • 1941
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    They Died with Their Boots On

    They Died with Their Boots On

    6.6 1941 HD

    The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

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  • 1956
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    The Rawhide Years

    The Rawhide Years

    5.5 1956 HD

    Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But...

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  • 1955
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    Ten Wanted Men

    Ten Wanted Men

    5.8 1955 HD

    When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power...

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  • 1936
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    The Longest Night

    The Longest Night

    5.7 1936 HD

    Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

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  • 1936
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    Rose of the Rancho

    Rose of the Rancho

    1 1936 HD

    It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

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  • 1942
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    The Remarkable Andrew

    The Remarkable Andrew

    8.2 1942 HD

    When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...

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  • 1938
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    Touchdown, Army

    Touchdown, Army

    1 1938 HD

    Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

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  • 1935
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    Annapolis Farewell

    Annapolis Farewell

    1 1935 HD

    Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his...

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  • 1942
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    To the Shores of Tripoli

    To the Shores of Tripoli

    5.1 1942 HD

    Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

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  • 1941
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    The Monster and the Girl

    The Monster and the Girl

    5.8 1941 HD

    After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape...

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  • 1943
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    Action in the North Atlantic

    Action in the North Atlantic

    7 1943 HD

    Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as...

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  • 1944
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    Shadows in the Night

    Shadows in the Night

    5.5 1944 HD

    A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

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  • 1943
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    Crash Dive

    Crash Dive

    6.1 1943 HD

    A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its...

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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 America as an advocate of Stalinism.

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  • 1988
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    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    6 1988 HD

    Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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  • 1945
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    A Bell for Adano

    A Bell for Adano

    5.5 1945 HD

    Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

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  • 1945
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    God Is My Co-Pilot

    God Is My Co-Pilot

    7 1945 HD

    Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into...

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  • 1953
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    Roar of the Crowd

    Roar of the Crowd

    1 1953 HD

    Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to...

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  • 1944
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    Here Come the Waves

    Here Come the Waves

    5 1944 HD

    Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny...

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  • 1939
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    Boy Friend

    Boy Friend

    1 1939 HD

    A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing...

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  • 1937
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    Checkers

    Checkers

    1 1937 HD

    A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

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