Adventures in Iraq 1943  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: John Loder, Ruth Ford, Warren Douglas, Paul Cavanagh, Barry Bernard, Peggy Carson, Bill Crago, Martin Garralaga, Manuel Lopez, Dick Botiller, Eugene Borden, Bill Edwards
In this remake of 1930's "The Green Goddess," Doug's (Warren Douglas) plane is forced down in a desert storm. He and his two passengers are taken hostage by a sheik who intends to trade the trio for his brothers who are held by the British.
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All American 1953  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Cast: Tony Curtis, Lori Nelson, Richard Long, Mamie Van Doren, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanagh, Stuart Whitman, Frank Gifford, Tom Harmon, Jim Sears
The personal life of an All-American football player (Tony Curtis) is the subject of this film involving romance with girlfriend Sharon (Lori Nelson) and the tragic death of his parents.
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The Babe Ruth Story 1948  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley, Paul Cavanagh, Mark Koenig, Mel Allen, Harry Wismer, Lloyd Gough
William Bendix is a good George Herman "Babe" Ruth in this biography of the famed slugger but–the "Babe" is portrayed as a self-centered child who never was forced to grow up and take responsibility for his actions.
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A Bill of Divorcement 1932  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners, Henry Stephenson, Paul Cavanagh, Elizabeth Patterson, Gayle Evers, Julie Haydon
In this drama (Katharine Hepburn's first film) Sydney Fairfield (Hepburn) is caught in the dilemma of marrying the man she loves (David Manners) or staying home to care for her father (John Barrymore), who returned home from a long stay in a mental institution and was confronted by being divorced by his wife.
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Bride of the Gorilla 1951 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Curt Siodmak
Cast: Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Ray Corrigan, Paul Maxey, Carol Varga, Woody Strode, Martin Garralaga
This movie is bad enough to be fun to watch. Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) oversees a jungle plantation and falls under a native curse after killing his employer.
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Captains of the Clouds 1942 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Reginald Denny, Reginald Gardiner, Paul Cavanagh, Russell Arms, Clem Bevans
Brian MacLean (James Cagney) is a bush pilot in Canada during 1940 who runs a delivery service for adventurers way up north. Stimulated by hearing Winston Churchill's "we will not surrender" speech, Brian and his buddies join the Royal Canadian Air Force. There's lots of romance and humor but not much action.
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Dishonored Lady 1947 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan, Paul Cavanagh, Natalie Schafer, Morris Carnovsky, Douglass Dumbrille, Margaret Hamilton, Ian Wolfe, Nicholas Joy, Dewey Robinson
Successful, but mentally unstable, magazine editor Madeleine (Hedy Lamarr) attempts suicide. After her psychiatrist insists she quit her high-pressure job, she moves to Greenwich Village and becomes a painter. She meets David (Dennis O'Keefe), and love blossoms. But she runs across an old boyfriend and, after he is killed, Madeleine is accused of the murder
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake 1959  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Henry Daniell, Grant Richards, Paul Cavanagh, Paul Wexler, Howard Wendell, Lumsden Hare, Frank Gerstle
Jonathan Drake (Eduard Franz) attends his brother's funeral and finds that the head is missing from the corpse. Fearing that he is slated to be the next victim of his family's voodoo curse, Jonathan gets help from his daughter (Valerie French) and a detective (Grant Richards) to put an end to the madness. 1 User Review
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Francis in the Haunted House 1956 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Virginia Welles, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh, Mary Ellen Kay, David Janssen, Ralph Dumke, Richard Gaines, Richard Deacon, Paul Frees
In this final Francis film, Mickey Rooney replaces Donald O'Connor and Paul Frees replaces Chill Wills as the voice of Francis the talking mule. It is also the weakest film of the series as the man and his mule get involved in haunted house goings-on.
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God Is My Partner 1957 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William F. Claxton
Cast: Walter Brennan, John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse White, Ellen Corby, Paul Cavanagh, Nancy Kulp
An elderly surgeon, Doctor Charles Grayson (Walter Brennan), decides to give away his life savings to get closer to heaven, but his nephews will stop at almost nothing to protect what they believe should be their inheritance.
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 Goin' to Town 1935 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral, Ivan Lebedeff, Fred Kohler, Monroe Owsley, Grant Withers, Luis Alberni, Wade Boteler, Mona Rico, Paul Harvey, Lucio Villegas
Dance-hall queen Cleo Borden (Mae West) inherits an oil field from her deceased husband but lacks social graces to enter high society. She takes etiquette lessons and gets into a marriage in name only with Fletcher Colton (Monroe Owsley) to gain social position. But, British engineer Edward Carrington (Paul Cavanagh), who she had fallen for when he surveyed her property, returns to the scene and is now an earl. By story's end, Cleo has divorced Fletcher, married Edward, and lives happily ever after in London.
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The Hard Way 1943 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan, Gladys George, Faye Emerson, Paul Cavanagh, Roman Bohnen, Leona Maricle, Ann Doran, Eddie Acuff, Monte Blue, Virginia Brissac, Julie Bishop, Eddy Chandler
Helen Chemen (Ida Lupino in one of her best performances) pushes her talented sister Katie (Joan Leslie) to enter show business as the means to get out of poverty in Pennsylvania. Katie becomes a star, but not without consequences. Heavy and depressing at times, but the acting saves it.
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Hollywood Story 1951 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William Castle
Cast: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Paul Cavanagh, Houseley Stevenson, Francis X. Bushman, Joel McCrea
A movie director was murdered 20 years ago. Now, Larry O'Brien (Richard Conte) comes to Hollywood to make a movie about the crime and uncovers the real story behind the murder.
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The House of Fear 1945  N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey, Paul Cavanagh, Holmes Herbert, Harry Cording, Sally Shepherd, Gavin Muir, David Clyde
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are on the trail of the solution to a number of murders of guests at a Scottish mansion.
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 House of Wax 1953 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, Frank Lovejoy, Roy Roberts, Paul Picerni, Angela Clarke, Paul Cavanagh, Richard Benjamin, Dabbs Greer, Reggie Rymal, Jack Mower, Paul Cavanagh, Roy Roberts
When first released into theaters, this movie caused quite a stir in its use of 3-D with all types of gimmicks to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. At home, viewing does not permit the 3-D effect, but this is still a good film about sculptor Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) who lost his hands in a fire and now has turned to the murder of pretty young women to complete his work.
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Humoresque 1946  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Craig Stevens, Paul Cavanagh, Nestor Paiva, Monte Blue, Fritz Leiber, Peggy Knudsen, Joan Chandler, Tom D'Andrea
Helen Wright (Joan Crawford) gives Paul Boray (John Garfield) financial help to further his career as a concert violinist in this film about Paul's devotion to his music, Helen's love for Paul, and her own devotion to alcohol.
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The Kennel Murder Case 1933 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Jack La Rue, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Barrat, Henry O'Neill, Frank Conroy
In this classic Philo Vance (William Powell) mystery, detective Vance investigates a murder at the Kennel Club that was made to look like a suicide.
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Magnificent Obsession 1954 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanagh, Jack Kelly, Lisa Gaye, George Lynn, Sara Shane, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb, Will J. White, Fred Nurney
Playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) is involved in a boating accident that inadvertently kills Dr. Wayne Philips. When Bob falls in love with Wayne's widow Helen (Jane Wyman), he soon learns that his love is not returned. After Helen is blinded, Bob goes to medical school, remakes his life, and performs surgery on Helen to restore her eyesight in an effort to win Helen's love. Wyman was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
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Maisie Was a Lady 1941 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Joan Perry, Paul Cavanagh, Edward Ashley, Hans Conried, Edgar Dearing, Charles D. Brown
Brooklyn showgirl Maisie (Ann Sothern) goes to work as a maid for a wealthy–but troubled–family and gets their lives back in order.
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The Man in Half Moon Street 1945 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Ralph Murphy
Cast: Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schunzel, Paul Cavanagh, Edmund Breon, Morton Lowry, Mathew Boulton, Brandon Hurst, Forrester Harvey, Wilson Benge, Harry Cording, Frank Hagney, Eustace Wyatt, Konstantin Shayne, Leyland Hodgson
Artist and scientist Julian Karell (Nils Ashter) falls in love with Eve (Helen Walker) while painting her portrait. What Eve does not know is that Julian has been receiving gland transplants for 60 years to keep him young. The donors have all died during the gland transplants, and Julian's endocrinologist Dr. Kurt Van Bruecken (Reinhold Schunzel) is refusing to perform the next operation. Julian rescues medical student Allen Guthrie (Morton Lowry) from a suicide attempt and, later, finds another doctor to use Guthrie as his next donor. Guthrie dies during the operation, and Scotland Yard begins an investigation. Meanwhile, Julian confesses his operations to Eve who marries him anyway, and they take off on an ill-fated honeymoon. The film was remade in 1959 as "The Man Who Could Cheat Death."
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The Notorious Sophie Lang 1934 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Murphy
Cast: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Byron, Leon Errol, Norman Ainsley, Arthur Hoyt, Ben Taggart, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Edward McWade
Sophie (Gertrude Michael) is a jewel thief who has been successful in England and now returns home to New York City. The police use the services of a European thief (Paul Cavanagh) to follow her, hoping she will lead them to bigger game. The nonstop chase is on in this so-so film, which was followed by two sequels.
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The Purple Mask 1955 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O'Herlihy, Angela Lansbury, George Dolenz, Robert Cornthwaite, Paul Cavanagh, John Hoyt, Donald Randolph
Swashbuckler Rene (Tony Curtis) kidnaps Napoleon's men as a means to obtain funds to help the Royalists' cause.
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The Raid 1954 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves, Claude Akins, Douglas Spencer, Paul Cavanagh, Will Wright
After escaping from a New England prison, Confederate soldiers plot revenge by raiding a Vermont farm.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest 1950 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale, Matthew Boulton, Billy Bevan, Paul Cavanagh, John Dehner, Billy House, Lowell Gilmore
Robin, Earl of Huntington (John Derek) is Robin Hood's son, and, like his father, he fights for the rights of commoners. In this story, Robin helps force the signing of the Magna Carta.
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 The Scarlet Claw 1944 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Ian Wolfe, Miles Mander, David Clyde, Olaf Hytten, Victoria Horne, Kay Harding, George Kirby, Clyde Fillmore, Eric Wilton
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) travel to Canada to investigate murders in which the victims' throats have been ripped out. Residents tell Holmes that a legendary monster haunts the area, and they believe that the monster has been killing their neighbors. But, Holmes suspects that the killer is an actor, Potts (Gerald Hamer), who is a master of disguises, and Holmes sets a trap to identify the killer. One of Rathbone's and Bruce's very best.
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Secret Beyond the Door 1948 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer, Paul Cavanagh, Anabel Shaw, Rosa Rey, James Seay, Mark Dennis, Houseley Stevenson
A wealthy socialite from New York, Celia (Joan Bennett), vacations in Mexico where she meets and marries Mark Lamphere (Michael Redgrave). It doesn't take long before Celia begins to suspect that her husband holds many secrets, including murdering his first wife. Could Celia be next on his list?
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Shadows on the Stairs 1941 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Heather Angel, Bruce Lester, Miles Mander, Lumsden Hare, Turhan Bey, Charles Irwin, Phyllis Barry, Mary Field
When bodies are discovered in a London boarding house, the residents become the suspects, and accusations fly.
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Splendor 1935 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Paul Cavanagh, Helen Westley, Billie Burke, Katharine Alexander, David Niven, Arthur Treacher, Ivan F. Simpson, Reginald Sheffield
When wealthy Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) brings home his new wife Phyllis (Miriam Hopkins), the family has problems accepting her lower social status.
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The Squaw Man 1931 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Warner Baxter, Paul Cavanagh, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dickie Moore, Julia Faye, C. Aubrey Smith
This remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 and 1918 silent films is excellent fare as it again relates the tale of racial biases encountered in settling the Old West.
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The Strange Door 1951 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Wyler, Michael Pate, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Napier, William Cottrell, Morgan Farley, Charles Horvath
This is the adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" in which the mad Frenchman, Alan de Maletroit (Charles Laughton), cannot control his insane jealousy and throws his brother Edmond (Paul Cavanagh) in the dungeon while forcing a marriage on his brother's daughter, Blanche (Sally Forrest).
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Tarzan and His Mate 1934 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Forrester Harvey, William Stack, Desmond Roberts, Paul Porcasi, Ray Corrigan, Nathan Curry
This is the best of the "Tarzan" films with Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. The couple encounters danger from ivory hunters who search for an elephant graveyard.
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This Man's Navy 1945 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jan Clayton, Selena Royle, Noah Beery, Henry O'Neill, Steve Brodie, Paul Cavanagh, Blake Edwards
Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is an old salt who takes a young recruit, Jess Weaver (Tom Drake), under his wing. They form a close relationship, which ends tragically when Weaver's heroic action results in his death.
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The Verdict 1946 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris, Rosalind Ivan, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Shields, Morton Lowry, Holmes Herbert, Ian Wolfe
Superintendent Grodman (Sydney Greenstreet) and Victor Emmric (Peter Lorre) work to clear the name of a man who the obnoxious Scotland Yard Investigator Buckley (George Coulouris) has railroaded through the court system in his zest to solve a murder. This all began as a plot to teach Buckley a lesson, but the matter quickly gets out of hand.
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The Woman in Green 1945 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell, Mary Gordon, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Frederick Worlock, Olaf Hytten, Billy Bevan, Eve Amber, Coulter Irwin, Sally Shepherd, Colin Hunter, Leslie Denison
With severed fingers of women murder victims for clues, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate, and the trail leads to a mysterious hypnotist, Lydia (Hillary Brooke). They follow their logic and uncover blackmail and hypnosis that are part of a plot by Lydia and Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty (Henry Daniell).
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| 1. Adventures in Iraq (1943)
2. All American (1953)
3. The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
4. A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
5. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
6. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
7. The Devil to Pay (1930)
8. Dishonored Lady (1947)
9. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
10. Francis in the Haunted House (1956)
11. God Is My Partner (1957)
12. Goin' to Town (1935)
13. The Hard Way (1943)
14. Hollywood Story (1951)
15. The House of Fear (1945)
16. House of Wax (1953)
17. Humoresque (1946)
18. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
19. Magnificent Obsession (1954)
20. Maisie Was a Lady (1941)
21. The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
22. The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
23. The Purple Mask (1955)
24. The Raid (1954)
25. Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
26. The Scarlet Claw (1944)
27. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
28. Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
29. Splendor (1935)
30. The Squaw Man (1931)
31. The Strange Door (1951)
32. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
33. This Man's Navy (1945)
34. The Verdict (1946)
35. The Woman in Green (1945)
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