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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
director: Arthur Lubin actor: John Hubbard / Wendy Barrie …
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
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Guilty as Hell (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Guilty as Hell
director: Erle C. Kenton actor: Edmund Lowe / Victor McLaglen …
Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
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Together Again (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Together Again
director: Charles Vidor actor: Irene Dunne / Charles Boyer …
other title: Ancora insieme / Modell wider Willen …
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
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Miss Pinkerton (1932) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Miss Pinkerton
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Joan Blondell / George Brent …
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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Hold Your Man (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hold Your Man
director: Sam Wood actor: Jean Harlow / Clark Gable …
other title: L'uomo che voglio / Ganovenbraut …
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
director: Eugene Forde actor: Lloyd Nolan / Marjorie Weaver …
other title: Michael Shayne: Détective privé
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Secret of the Blue Room (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Secret of the Blue Room
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Lionel Atwill / Gloria Stuart …
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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Out of the Blue (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Out of the Blue
director: Leigh Jason actor: George Brent / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Se busca una mujer / Fulmini a ciel sereno
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
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Belle Starr (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Belle Starr
director: Irving Cummings actor: Gene Tierney / Randolph Scott …
other title: La ribelle del sud / A Formosa Bandida …
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hail the Conquering Hero
director: Preston Sturges actor: Eddie Bracken / Ella Raines …
other title: Evviva il nostro eroe / Heil dem siegreichen Helden …
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Cat and the Canary
director: Elliott Nugent actor: Bob Hope / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Il fantasma di mezzanotte / Erbschaft um Mitternacht …
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
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Follow the Boys (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Follow the Boys
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: George Raft / Vera Zorina …
other title: La nave della morte / Hollywood Parade …
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.