Porter Hall — Actor (38)
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Murder, He Says (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Murder, He Says
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Helen Walker …
other title: ¿Quién dijo crimen? / Un héritage sur les bras
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
director: James P. Hogan actor: John Barrymore / John Howard …
other title: Bulldog Drummond Der künstliche Diamant / Bulldog Drummond en péril …
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
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Snowed Under (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Snowed Under
director: Ray Enright actor: George Brent / Genevieve Tobin …
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Holiday for Sinners (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Holiday for Sinners
director: Gerald Mayer actor: Gig Young / Keenan Wynn …
other title: Fiesta de pecadores
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
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Intruder in the Dust (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Intruder in the Dust
director: Clarence Brown actor: David Brian / Claude Jarman Jr. …
other title: Nella polvere del profondo Sud / Griff in den Staub …
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) [Movie] TMDB Skybridge NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Make Way for Tomorrow
director: Leo McCarey actor: Victor Moore / Beulah Bondi …
other title: Cupo tramonto / A Cruz dos Anos …
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Going My Way (1944) [Movie] TMDB
Going My Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Bing Crosby / Barry Fitzgerald …
other title: La mia via / O Bom Pastor …
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Miracle on 34th Street
director: George Seaton actor: Maureen O'Hara / John Payne …
other title: Il miracolo della 34ª strada / Miraklet på Manhattan …
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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Sullivan's Travels (1941) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sullivan's Travels
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Veronica Lake …
other title: I dimenticati / Contrastes Humanos …
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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The Thin Man (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Thin Man
director: W.S. Van Dyke actor: William Powell / Myrna Loy …
other title: L'uomo ombra / Den tynde mand …
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Petrified Forest
director: Archie Mayo actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis …
other title: La foresta pietrificata / A Floresta Petrificada …
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Double Indemnity (1944) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Double Indemnity
8.4 (17 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: Fred MacMurray / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La fiamma del peccato / Kvinden uden samvittighed …
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.
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His Girl Friday (1940) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB Skybridge WikiData
His Girl Friday
6.1 (8 ratings) director: Howard Hawks actor: Cary Grant / Rosalind Russell …
other title: La signora del venerdì / Sensationen …
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.