The Clock 1945  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Under the Clock
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady, Paul E. Burns, Eddie Acuff, Barbara Bedford
Judy Garland's debut in a dramatic film highlights this story about young lovers, Joe (Robert Walker) and Alice (Judy Garland), who fall in love and marry within 24 hours while soldier Joe is on a three-day leave from the Army.
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Don't Fence Me In 1945  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John English
Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George "Gabby" Hayes, Robert Livingston, Moroni Olsen, Marc Lawrence, Andrew Tombes, Paul Harvey, Lucile Gleason, Tom London, Bob Nolan, Steve Barclay
The music makes this movie. Roy Rogers sings the title song written by Cole Porter, and the Sons Of The Pioneers sing two of their biggest hits: "The Last Roundup" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." Dale Evans is a reporter conducting research on a presumed-dead fugitive.
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Klondike Annie 1936  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Philip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy, Harry Beresford, Harold Huber, Lucile Gleason, Conway Tearle, Esther Howard, Soo Yong
Mae West and the censors–the Legion of Decency–were fighting it out in the mid-1930s; the censors won with this one, taming down the final cut of the film. Mae plays "The Frisco Doll," who kills a man in self-defense and then takes off on a ship for Alaska. On the way, after the ship's captain, Bull (Victor McLaglen), finds that she is on the lam, he blackmails her into providing sexual favors. Taking the place of a missionary who died on the trip, Doll becomes a woman of God, who eventually decides to return to San Francisco to clear herself.
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Red Lights Ahead 1936  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roland D. Reed
Cast: Andy Clyde, Lucile Gleason, Paula Stone, Roger Imhof, Frank Coghlan Jr., Ben Alexander, Ann Doran, Matty Kemp, Sam Flint, Addison Randall, Eleanor Stewart
Pa Wallace (Roger Imhof) invests in a gold mine on the advice of the president of his lodge, F.Q. Whitney (Sam Flint). They hit it big, and Pa moves his family into a mansion, hires a maid and butler, and enjoys the good life–until Whitney is arrested for swindling. The money disappears, and the Wallace family must move out of the mansion. But, Grandpa (Andy Clyde) bails them out and teaches his family a lesson about the value of working for their money.
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A Successful Failure 1934 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: William Collier Sr., Lucile Gleason, Russell Hopton, William Janney, Gloria Shea, George P. Breakston, Clarence Wilson, Jameson Thomas, Richard Tucker, Francis McDonald
Newspaperman Ellery Cushing (William Collier Sr.) is constantly pressured by his very inconsiderate family until he finally caves in and loses his job. But, success lies just around the corner when he finds success with a new career in radio, and his family learns valuable lessons in the process.
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| 1. The Clock (1945)
aka: Under the Clock
2. Don't Fence Me In (1945)
3. Klondike Annie (1936)
4. Red Lights Ahead (1936)
5. A Successful Failure (1934)
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