Frank O'Connor — Actor (38)
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Don't Be a Sucker! (1943) [Movie]
Don't Be a Sucker!
actor: Lloyd Nolan / Paul Lukas …
other title: Nebūk Mulkis
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Invisible Man Returns
director: Joe May actor: Cedric Hardwicke / Vincent Price …
other title: Il ritorno dell'uomo invisibile / Der Unsichtbare kehrt zurück …
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Angel Face (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Angel Face
director: Otto Preminger actor: Robert Mitchum / Jean Simmons …
other title: Seduzione mortale / Blindt begær …
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Tell Your Children (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Tell Your Children
director: Louis J. Gasnier actor: Dorothy Short / Kenneth Craig …
other title: A Loucura da Ganza / Reefer Madness …
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [Movie]
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
director: Frank Capra actor: Gary Cooper / Jean Arthur …
other title: È arrivata la felicità / En gentleman kommer til byen …
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
The Grapes of Wrath
director: John Ford actor: Henry Fonda / Jane Darwell …
other title: Furore / Vredens druer …
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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All the King's Men (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
All the King's Men
director: Robert Rossen actor: John Ireland / Broderick Crawford …
other title: Tutti gli uomini del re / Alle kongens mænd …
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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The Thin Man (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
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 Quiet Man (1952) [Movie]
The Quiet Man
director: John Ford actor: John Wayne / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Un uomo tranquillo / Den Tavse Mand …
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Escape in the Fog (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Escape in the Fog
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Otto Kruger / Nina Foch …
other title: Fuga en la niebla / Fuite dans la brume
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Hollywood Story (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hollywood Story
director: William Castle actor: Richard Conte / Julie Adams …
other title: I misteri di Hollywood / Mord in Hollywood …
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
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A Day at the Races (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Day at the Races
director: Samuel Grosvenor Wood actor: Groucho Marx / Chico Marx …
other title: Un giorno alle corse / En dag på galopbanen …
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.
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Secret Beyond the Door... (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Secret Beyond the Door...
director: Fritz Lang actor: Joanie / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Dietro la porta chiusa / O Segredo da Porta Fechada …
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
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Nightmare Alley (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Nightmare Alley
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Tyrone Power / Helen Walker …
other title: La fiera delle illusioni / O Beco das Almas Perdidas …
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) [Movie]
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
director: Frank Capra actor: James Stewart / Jean Arthur …
other title: Mr. Smith va a Washington / Mr. Smith kommer til Washington …
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) [Movie]
Stranger on the Third Floor
director: Boris Ingster actor: Peter Lorre / John McGuire …
other title: Lo sconosciuto del terzo piano / L'Inconnu du 3e étage …
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Sunset Boulevard (1950) [Movie]
Sunset Boulevard
8.4 (25 ratings) director: Billy Wilder actor: William Holden / Gloria Swanson …
other title: Viale del tramonto / Crepúsculo dos Deuses …
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.