Angel and the Badman 1947  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Romance / Western
Director: James Edward Grant
Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Irene Rich, Bruce Cabot, Lee Dixon, Stephen Grant, Tom Powers, Olin Howland, Paul Hurst, Craig Woods, John Halloran, Kenne Duncan, Joan Barton, Marshall Reed
In this John Wayne movie, he plays wounded gunslinger Quirt Evans who becomes the patient in a family of Quakers. The daughter, Penelope Worth (Gail Russell), of the house falls for him and tries to keep him from going after his enemy Laredo Stevens (Bruce Cabot) who had murdered his foster father. Over time, Quirt changes his ways and begins life anew with Penelope.
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Beau Ideal 1931  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Herbert Brenon
Cast: Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Irene Rich, Lester Vail, Otto Matieson, Don Alvarado, Bernard Siegel, Myrtle Stedman, John St. Polis, Hale Hamilton, George Regas, Bernard Siegel
Ralph Forbes, who starred in the 1926 silent film, "Beau Geste," returns to his role in this sequel that involves the desert reunion of childhood friends John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail).
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 The Champ 1931  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy, Hale Hamilton, Jesse Scott, Marcia Mae Jones
Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for his role of Champ, the down-and-out boxer who loves his son, Dink (Jackie Cooper). Nominations for Best Picture and Director were also received. The story was later remade as "The Clown" in 1953 and again as "The Champ" in 1979.
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Check and Double Check 1930  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Amos 'N' Andy
Director: Melville W. Brown
Cast: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich, Ralf Harolde, Charles Morton, Edward Martindel, Rita La Roy, Russ Powell, Roscoe Ates, Duke Ellingon, Robert Homans
In this, their only film appearance, the White comedians of radio fame, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, bring their Black characters of Amos 'n' Andy to the screen. Although their radio show had been a hit, seeing them in blackface was a different matter. Years later, the characters were brought to TV and were readily accepted when Black men took on the roles of Amos 'n' Andy.
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 Down to Earth 1932 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Dorothy Jordan, Matty Kemp, Clarence Wilson, Mary Carlisle, Brandon Hurst, Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Theodore Lodi, Louise Mackintosh
This sequel to "They Had to See Paris" again stars Will Rogers as the suddenly rich Oklahoman. Now his family will not stop spending money, so he hatches a scheme to make them believe he has gone bankrupt.
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Fort Apache 1948 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Irene Rich, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh
Lt. Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) is annoyed because he has been sent out West to command Fort Apache in Arizona after serving valiantly during the Civil War. After his daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) discover the bodies of mutilated soldiers murdered by the Apaches, Thursday decides to stir up the Indians for his own fame and fortune. One of his officers, Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), tries to teach him the realities of co-existing with the Indians and tells him that the real problem is not the Apaches, but, instead, it is the corrupt Indian agents promoting the problems. York's words go unheeded, and Thursday leads his men into a disastrous situation after which he is labeled a hero by the press.
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Her Mad Night 1932 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Held for Murder
Director: E. Mason Hopper
Cast: Irene Rich, Conway Tearle, Mary Carlisle, Kenneth Thomson, William B. Davidson
Joan (Irene Rich) took the blame and is now convicted of killing the man who molested her daughter, Constance (Mary Carlisle). The electric chair is scheduled in the very near future, but Constance, who is the only one who really knows the truth, is away on a cruise. Will she return in time to prove her mother's innocence?
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 The Lady in Question 1940  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich, George Coulouris, Lloyd Corrigan, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Norris, Curt Bois, Frank Reicher
Juror Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) votes to acquit Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth) in a murder trial and becomes intimately involved in her life.
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The Mortal Storm 1940 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack, William T. Orr, Maria Ouspenskaya, Bonita Granville, Irene Rich, Esther Dale
In this propaganda film about the tragedies endured by the Roth family, the father, a German professor (Frank Morgan), speaks out against the Nazis and ends up in a concentration camp where he is killed. His two sons (Robert Stack and William Orr) become Nazis as does his daughter's fiance (Robert Young). His daughter (Margaret Sullavan) eventually tries to cross the border into Austria with the man she loves (James Stewart), but she is killed trying to escape.
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New Orleans 1947 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Dorothy Patrick, Irene Rich, John Alexander, Arturo de Cordova, Billie Holliday, Richard Hageman, Marjorie Lord, Shelley Winters, Louis Armstrong
Music reigns supreme in this story of a fictional account of the birth and the following 40 years of jazz. Louis Armstrong and others provide the music, including a Billie Holliday/Armstrong duet.
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Queen of the Yukon 1940 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Adventure / Western
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, Melvin Lang, George Cleveland, June Carlson, Guy Usher, Dave O'Brien, Tristram Coffin, I. Stanford Jolley, Jess Cavin, John Merton
Sadie (Irene Rich) owns an Alaskan riverboat in the Yukon and has been using the money made taking gold-miners to their claims to pay for her daughter Helen's (June Carlson) education at boarding school. Finding that she is strapped for cash, Sadie sells the boat to the shady John Thorne (Melvin Lang) who now uses the boat to jump miners' claims. Unexpectedly, Helen arrives on the scene, and her boyfriend Bob (Dave O'Brien) goes to work for Thorne. But, fear not, Sadie's friend Ace (Charles Bickford) comes to the rescue and saves the day.
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Strangers May Kiss 1931 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Irene Rich, Jed Prouty, Henry Armetta, Ray Milland, Hale Hamilton, Conchita Montenegro
Lisbeth (Norma Shearer) loves Alan (Neil Hamilton), but her love is not returned. Nevertheless, she follows him to the ends of the earth before she realizes what true love really is.
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They Had to See Paris 1929 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Borzage
Cast: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill, Ivan Lebedeff, Rex Bell, Fifi D'Orsay, Owen Davis Jr., Edgar Kennedy, Gregory Gaye, Theodore Lodi
An Oklahoman (Will Rogers) gets rich, and his wife (Irene Rich) wants to use some of their newfound wealth to finance a trip to Paris.
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| 1. Angel and the Badman (1947)
2. Beau Ideal (1931)
3. The Champ (1931)
4. Check and Double Check (1930)
aka: Amos 'N' Andy
5. Down to Earth (1932)
6. Fort Apache (1948)
7. Her Mad Night (1932)
aka: Held for Murder
8. The Lady in Question (1940)
9. The Mortal Storm (1940)
10. New Orleans (1947)
11. Queen of the Yukon (1940)
12. Strangers May Kiss (1931)
13. They Had to See Paris (1929)
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