John Butler

John Butler

  • Title: John Butler
  • Popularity: 1.729
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1884-05-01
  • Place of Birth: Canada
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  • Also Known As: John A. Butler
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John Butler Movies

  • 1939
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    Pride of the Blue Grass

    Pride of the Blue Grass

    6 1939 HD

    A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

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  • 1949
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    It Happens Every Spring

    It Happens Every Spring

    6.5 1949 HD

    A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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  • 1940
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    Home Movies

    Home Movies

    6 1940 HD

    A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

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  • 1949
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    The Set-Up

    The Set-Up

    7.317 1949 HD

    Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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  • 1922
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    John Smith

    John Smith

    1 1922 HD

    Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social...

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  • 1949
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    The Undercover Man

    The Undercover Man

    6.2 1949 HD

    Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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  • 1938
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    Mental Poise

    Mental Poise

    5.5 1938 HD

    In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

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  • 1939
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    An Hour for Lunch

    An Hour for Lunch

    4.5 1939 HD

    Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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  • 1949
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    The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment

    6.8 1949 HD

    After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

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  • 1949
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    Shockproof

    Shockproof

    6.4 1949 HD

    Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

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  • 1951
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    The Unknown Man

    The Unknown Man

    4.8 1951 HD

    A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

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  • 1950
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    Code of the Silver Sage

    Code of the Silver Sage

    6 1950 HD

    Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the...

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  • 1950
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    The Yellow Cab Man

    The Yellow Cab Man

    6.3 1950 HD

    Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

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  • 1938
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    Young Dr. Kildare

    Young Dr. Kildare

    6.5 1938 HD

    A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his...

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  • 1939
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    Hollywood Cavalcade

    Hollywood Cavalcade

    5.1 1939 HD

    Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

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  • 1950
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    Our Very Own

    Our Very Own

    5.7 1950 HD

    During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

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  • 1938
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    Cowboy from Brooklyn

    Cowboy from Brooklyn

    4 1938 HD

    A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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  • 1939
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    Stronger Than Desire

    Stronger Than Desire

    5.8 1939 HD

    An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

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  • 1949
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    Too Late for Tears

    Too Late for Tears

    6.8 1949 HD

    Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

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  • 1939
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    Frontier Marshal

    Frontier Marshal

    6 1939 HD

    Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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  • 1940
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    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    4 1940 HD

    A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

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  • 1937
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    Midnight Court

    Midnight Court

    4.8 1937 HD

    After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

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  • 1937
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    Missing Witnesses

    Missing Witnesses

    5.5 1937 HD

    A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

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  • 1937
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    The Great O'Malley

    The Great O'Malley

    6.7 1937 HD

    His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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  • 1938
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    Exposed

    Exposed

    5 1938 HD

    A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

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  • 1941
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    Mob Town

    Mob Town

    1 1941 HD

    Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

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  • 1949
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    White Heat

    White Heat

    7.7 1949 HD

    A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

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  • 1939
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    Torchy Runs for Mayor

    Torchy Runs for Mayor

    5.8 1939 HD

    Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

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  • 1940
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    Edison, the Man

    Edison, the Man

    6.6 1940 HD

    In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

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  • 1939
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    Money to Loan

    Money to Loan

    6.5 1939 HD

    The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...

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  • 1940
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    We Who Are Young

    We Who Are Young

    5.8 1940 HD

    A man violates company policy by getting married.

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  • 1949
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    Special Agent

    Special Agent

    1 1949 HD

    A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

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  • 1940
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    Florian

    Florian

    1 1940 HD

    Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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  • 1940
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    The Golden Fleecing

    The Golden Fleecing

    5.3 1940 HD

    A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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  • 1940
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    Third Finger, Left Hand

    Third Finger, Left Hand

    6.8 1940 HD

    Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

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  • 1940
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    Behind the News

    Behind the News

    1 1940 HD

    As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

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  • 1952
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    The Wild North

    The Wild North

    6.9 1952 HD

    In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West...

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  • 1937
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    You're a Sweetheart

    You're a Sweetheart

    4 1937 HD

    A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...

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  • 1950
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    Branded

    Branded

    5.841 1950 HD

    A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

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  • 1948
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    Sinister Journey

    Sinister Journey

    6 1948 HD

    Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.

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  • 1948
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    Silent Conflict

    Silent Conflict

    1 1948 HD

    One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.

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  • 1942
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    Northwest Rangers

    Northwest Rangers

    6 1942 HD

    Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

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  • 1938
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    How to Watch Football

    How to Watch Football

    4.8 1938 HD

    Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

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  • 1951
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    Roadblock

    Roadblock

    5.8 1951 HD

    An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

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  • 1939
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    I Stole a Million

    I Stole a Million

    6 1939 HD

    A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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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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  • 1943
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    Slightly Dangerous

    Slightly Dangerous

    5.8 1943 HD

    Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

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  • 1937
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    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    5.3 1937 HD

    A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

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  • 1940
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    American Spoken Here

    American Spoken Here

    1 1940 HD

    This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

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  • 1938
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    They're Always Caught

    They're Always Caught

    5.833 1938 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...

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  • 1938
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    Opening Day

    Opening Day

    6 1938 HD

    The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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  • 1939
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    Ex-Champ

    Ex-Champ

    6 1939 HD

    A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

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  • 1950
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    Three Secrets

    Three Secrets

    6.4 1950 HD

    A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...

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  • 1949
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    Sorrowful Jones

    Sorrowful Jones

    6.1 1949 HD

    A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

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  • 1941
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    Sucker List

    Sucker List

    6 1941 HD

    In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of...

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  • 1950
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    Convicted

    Convicted

    6.3 1950 HD

    A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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  • 1950
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    Hunt the Man Down

    Hunt the Man Down

    6.2 1950 HD

    A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

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  • 1951
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    The Tall Target

    The Tall Target

    6.9 1951 HD

    A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

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  • 1941
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    Buck Privates

    Buck Privates

    6.6 1941 HD

    Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor....

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  • 1936
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    China Clipper

    China Clipper

    5.6 1936 HD

    An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

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  • 1937
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    Black Legion

    Black Legion

    6.547 1937 HD

    When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.3 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1938
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    The Mad Miss Manton

    The Mad Miss Manton

    6.5 1938 HD

    When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

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  • 1942
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    Eyes in the Night

    Eyes in the Night

    6 1942 HD

    Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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  • 1942
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    Joe Smith, American

    Joe Smith, American

    5.7 1942 HD

    Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...

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  • 1949
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    House of Strangers

    House of Strangers

    6.9 1949 HD

    Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help...

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  • 1937
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    Some Blondes Are Dangerous

    Some Blondes Are Dangerous

    1 1937 HD

    "Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his...

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  • 1942
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    Fly By Night

    Fly By Night

    6.4 1942 HD

    Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just...

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