Stanley Ridges — Actor (19)
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The Lady Is Willing (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Lady Is Willing
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Marlene Dietrich / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La signora acconsente / Fräulein Mama …
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Internes Can't Take Money
director: Alfred Santell actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La figlia perduta / La Loi du milieu …
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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The Scoundrel (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Scoundrel
director: Ben Hecht / Charles MacArthur actor: Noël Coward / Julie Haydon …
other title: Ein charmanter Schurke / Le Goujat
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
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Union Pacific (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Union Pacific
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La via dei giganti / Pacific Express …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Big Shot (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Shot
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Irene Manning …
other title: Il terrore di Chicago / Der große Gangster …
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, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Each Dawn I Die
director: William Keighley actor: James Cagney / George Raft …
other title: Morire all'alba / Todesangst bei jeder Dämmerung …
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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The Suspect (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Suspect
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Charles Laughton / Ella Raines …
other title: Quinto: non ammazzare! / Unter Verdacht …
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dust Be My Destiny
director: Lewis Seiler actor: John Garfield / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Weg aus dem Nichts / Defiendo mi vida …
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 leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Mad Miss Manton
director: Leigh Jason actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Henry Fonda …
other title: Il terzo delitto / Miss Manton est folle …
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.
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Sergeant York (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sergeant York
director: Howard Hawks actor: Gary Cooper / Walter Brennan …
other title: Il sergente York / Sargento York …
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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If I Were King (1938) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
If I Were King
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Ronald Colman / Basil Rathbone …
other title: Un vagabondo alla corte di Francia / Se Eu Fora Rei …
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.