Alibi Ike 1935   N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, William Frawley, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns, Joe King, Paul Harvey, Spencer Charters, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Shubert
This Ring Lardner comedy is about a baseball pitcher (Joe E. Brown) who is the center of many events that go wrong as he continues to persevere. 2 User Reviews
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| | 07/28/2007 | | I HAVE BEEN A PHILLIES FAN FOR 47 YEARS AND I TRULY LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT SHOULD BE PRODUCED ON DVD!!!!!!! |
| | 07/28/2007 | GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!! THIS IS A LONG FORGOTTEN CLASSIC BUT I TAPED IT OFF MY SATELLITE DISH THIS MORNING. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE ELMER THE GREAT AND FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD!!!!!! GOD BLESS JOE E. BROWN!!!!!!!
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Amazing Mr. Williams 1939  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly, Edward Brophy, Donald MacBride, Don Beddoe, Jonathan Hale, John Wray, Maude Eburne
Kenny (Melvyn Douglas) is a groom-to-be, but first he must help a woman clear her name, to the chagrin of his fiancee. An amusing comedy/mystery.
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Autumn Leaves 1956 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly, Shepperd Strudwick, Selmer Jackson, Maxine Cooper, Marjorie Bennett, Leonard Mudie
When relatives visit his home following his marriage to an older woman, Milly (Joan Crawford), Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson) suffers mental anguish when he discovers his father in bed with his first wife.
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The Bells of St. Mary's 1945  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Ruth Donnelly, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Minerva Urecal, Martha Sleeper, Rhys Williams, Una O'Connor, Matt McHugh
The sequel to "Going My Way" stars Bing Crosby as the affable priest who bumps heads with the Mother Superior over the raising of the students of St. Mary's school. The film won only one Oscar (Best Sound Recording) but was nominated for all the biggies (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director).
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Blessed Event 1932 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Isabel Jewell, George Meeker, Frank McHugh, Tom Dugan, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell
Newspaper columnist Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) specializes in reporting on "blessed events" which are started before marriage. When he announces the pregnancy of Dorothy (Isabel Jewell), it changes the lives of both Alvin and Dorothy. Behind the humor is a powerful story.
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Bureau of Missing Persons 1933  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, Alan Dinehart, George Chandler, Marjorie Gateson
Police officer Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) falls in love with fugitive Norma Phillips (Bette Davis) and helps prove her innocence in a murder charge.
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Cain and Mabel 1936 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns, Walter Catlett, E.E. Clive, Robert Paige, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ruth Donnelly, William Collier Sr.
A musical star, Mabel O'Dare (Marion Davies), pretends to be in love with a championship fighter, Larry Cain (Clark Gable), as part of a publicity stunt, but the stunt takes on new dimensions when the romance turns serious.
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Cinderella Jones 1946 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, S.Z. Sakall, Edward Everett Horton, Ruth Donnelly, Elisha Cook Jr., Monte Blue, Johnny Mitchell, Julie Bishop, Hobart Cavanaugh, William Prince, Charles Dingle, Charles Arnt, Chester Clute, Edward Gargan
This Busby Berkeley musical/comedy concerns a not-too-smart girl who must find a smart husband or lose her large inheritance. Where else to go looking than to enroll in college. The songs are good; the script isn't.
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Cross My Heart 1946  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: John Berry
Cast: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly, Iris Adrian, Al Bridge, Howard Freeman, Michael Chekhov, Milton Kibbee, Lewis L. Russell
Confessing to a murder she did not commit, a woman (Betty Hutton) depends on her lawyer husband (Sonny Tufts) to defend her and, in turn, give her the attention she craves. This is a remake of "True Confession."
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Ever in My Heart 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Frank Albertson, Laura Hope Crews, George Cooper, Nella Walker, Donald Meek, Clara Blandick
Unable to reconcile differences over anti-German prejudices, Hugo (Otto Kruger) leaves his wife Mary (Barbara Stanwyck). During World War I, she heads for Europe to help the war effort and learns that Hugo is now a spy for the enemy. 1 User Review
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| | Ever In My Heart | Konchog 02/18/2007 | | Would the holocaust Jews permit this movie to be released today? |
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Female 1933 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Philip Faversham, Ruth Donnelly, Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Wilson, Philip Reed, Rafaela Ottiano, Douglass Dumbrille, Gavin Gordon, Kenneth Thomson, Spencer Charters
A hard-working executive, Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), works long hours at her automobile factory–until Jim Thorne (George Brent) comes along and shows her that all work makes Alison a dull girl.
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Footlight Parade 1933 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Renee Whitney, Ruth Donnelly
This is one of those grand scale musicals that, in this instance, contains some of Busby Berkeley's best work. Chester Kent (James Cagney) is a brash, hustling stage director who faces economic and romantic problems.
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Hands Across the Table 1935 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Marie Prevost, William Demarest, Edward Gargan, Ferdinand Munier, Bess Flowers
Manicurist Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) sets out to marry a rich man. Theodore Drew III (Fred MacMurray) has similar plans to marry a wealthy woman. They meet, and each thinks the other has money. But, they fall in love and forego their original plans.
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Hard to Handle 1933 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly, Allen Jenkins, Claire Dodd, Gavin Gordon, Emma Dunn, Robert McWade, Douglass Dumbrille, Matt McHugh
Lefty Merrill (Cagney) is a press agent/con artist who gets into a number of humorous situations, including a get-rich-quick dance marathon. Lots of wisecracking.
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Housewife 1934  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Ruth Donnelly, John Halliday, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Barrat, Jonathan Hale, Joseph Cawthorn, Phil Regan, Willard Robertson, Leila Bennett, Harry Tyler, Charles Coleman
When George (George Brent) leaves his wife Nan (Ann Dvorak) for Patricia (Bette Davis), he finds that life is still not a bed of roses. Rare weak effort by top stars.
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 1951 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart, Lynn Bari, Ruth Donnelly, Kathleen Lockhart, Alexander Knox
Although unprepared for life in a rural community, Mary (Susan Hayward) gamely accompanies her minister husband, William Asbury Thompson (William Lundigan), to his new post in the Georgia hill country.
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Ladies They Talk About 1933 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Bretherton
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Maude Eburne, Harold Huber, Ruth Donnelly, Robert Warwick, Lillian Roth, Helen Ware
In prison for bank robbery, Nan (Barbara Stanwyck) finds salvation and love through the Reverend David Slade (Preston Foster).
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A Lawless Street 1955 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson, Jean Parker, Wallace Ford, John Emery, James Bell, Ruth Donnelly, Michael Pate, Don Megowan, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Hagney
Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) has spent years trying to clean up the West, but after he is shot and believed killed in the town of Medicine Bend, he hangs up his guns and returns to his wife, dance-hall singer Tally (Angela Lansbury), who had left him because of the dangers inherent in his job.
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Mandalay 1934 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lucien Littlefield, Ruth Donnelly, Reginald Owen, Rafaela Ottiano, Halliwell Hobbes, Etienne Girardot
In an attempt to flee her corrupt life in Rangoon, Tanya (Kay Francis) manages to obtain passage on a boat to Mandalay where she finds redemption.
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Metropolitan 1935 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Cesar Romero, Thurston Hall, Luis Alberni, Jane Darwell, Walter Brennan, Jessie Ralph, Ruth Donnelly
Thomas Renwick (Lawrence Tibbett) and Anne Merrill (Virginia Bruce) form their own opera company in Philadelphia when they fail to be accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Company.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H.B. Warner, Warren Hymer, Ruth Donnelly, Spencer Charters, Walter Catlett, John Wray, Stanley Andrews, Irving Bacon, George "Gabby" Hayes
In this classic film, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) inherits $20 million. He leaves his small town and moves to New York City where his lack of sophistication is misinterpreted when he wants to use part of his fortune to help the needy. Newspaper reporter Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur) is sent to get the scoop on Deeds and, in the process, regrets her actions when she falls in love with him. Frank Capra won the Oscar for Best Director, and four other Oscar nominations were received, including Best Picture and Actor (Cooper).
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 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Eugene Pallette, H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Pierre Watkin, Porter Hall
Filling in for his state's deceased senator, Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) takes his seat in the United States Senate. Despite crooked politics surrounding his appointment, as well as in Washington D.C., Smith behaves as we all wish our representatives would. An Academy Award was won for Best Original Story and 10 other nominations were received, including Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor (both Harry Carey and Claude Rains), and Director.
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My Little Chickadee 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward F. Cline
Cast: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, Si Jenks, Fuzzy Knight, Anne Nagel, Ruth Donnelly, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Lloyd Ingraham, Jackie Searl, Lane Chandler, Al Bridge
Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) is kidnapped by the Masked Bandit/Jeff Badger (Joseph Calleia) during a stagecoach robbery. Later, when Belle returns to town, she is suspected of having sexual relations with the Masked Bandit and is run out of town. On the train, she meets Cuthbert J. Twille (W.C. Fields) and fakes a marriage to him. Now, they return to town as a "respectable" couple, and the fun begins. Just watching the cavorting of W.C. Fields and Mae West in the same film makes this movie worthwhile.
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Private Detective 62 1933 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Man Killer
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: William Powell, Margaret Lindsay, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Westcott, James Bell, Arthur Byron, Arthur Hohl, Irving Bacon, George Brent, Sheila Terry
A former undercover man (William Powell) is hired to frame a gambler (Margaret Lindsay) in Paris. As he sets out to perform his task, he finds himself falling in love with his victim.
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Red Salute 1935 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Her Enlisted Man
Runaway Daughter
Her Uncle Sam
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones, Purnell Pratt, Paul Stanton, Nella Walker, Arthur Vinton
Drue Van Allen (Barbara Stanwyck) is a college student and daughter of an Army general (Purnell Pratt). She is swayed in the liberal direction by one suitor and in the conservative direction by another.
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The Secret of Convict Lake 1951 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Gene Tierney, Zachary Scott, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Bates, Ruth Donnelly, Cyril Cusack, Richard Hylton, Helen Westcott
In the 1870s, a group of convicts escape and hide out in a small California community of women.
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A Slight Case of Murder 1938 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Parker, John Litel, Edward Brophy, Harold Huber, Paul Harvey, Margaret Hamilton, Eric Stanley, Bobby Jordan, Joe Downing, Bert Hanlon
Edward G. Robinson is again excellent as he plays a gangster who goes broke after Prohibition ends. His brewery collapses due to the terrible tasting product, and he heads to his summer home where the fun begins as assorted guests appear, and bodies of gangsters are discovered along with half a million dollars of their loot. A fine, funny flick.
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The Spoilers 1955 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Cast: Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Ray Danton, Barbara Britton, John McIntire, Wallace Ford, Carl Benton Reid, Raymond Walburn, Ruth Donnelly, Willis Bouchey, Roy Barcroft, Forrest Lewis, Byron Foulger, Dayton Lummis
During the Gold Rush of 1898, gold mine owner Roy Glennister (Jeff Chandler) is confronted by gold commissioner Alex McNamara (Rory Calhoun) who is intent on cheating Glennsiter out of his claim to his mine. Wealthy saloon owner Cherry Malotte (Ann Baxter) falls in love with Glennister but becomes the pawn of McNamara. Meanwhile, Glennister has fallen in love with Helen (Barbara Britton) whose uncle, Judge Stillman (Carl Benton Reid), is in cahoots with McNamara. Glennister is arrested on a murder charge but breaks out of jail and ends up in a fistfight with McNamara to gain back his rights to reopen his mine.
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Thirteen Hours by Air 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, John Howard, Benny Bartlett, Grace Bradley, Alan Baxter, Brian Donlevy, Ruth Donnelly, Dean Jagger
Hijacking and murder is in store for passengers on a commercial airplane flying a transcontinental route.
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This Is the Army 1943 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Ronald Reagan, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, Irving Berlin, Dolores Costello, Stanley Ridges, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Kate Smith
This film was made as a benefit for the Army Emergency Relief Fund during World War II. It features World War I veterans (and many guest stars) entertaining World War II troops with vintage Irving Berlin songs–including "God Bless America" (sung by Kate Smith), "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and "This is the Army, Mr. Jones."
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The Way to the Gold 1957 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Robert D. Webb
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Barry Sullivan, Walter Brennan, Neville Brand, Philip Ahn, Jacques Aubuchon, Ruth Donnelly, Tom Pittman, Jonathan Hale
A hidden cache of gold is the quest of ex-con Joe Mundy (Jeffrey Hunter), but he is not the only one out there looking for the fortune. Ever heard of this storyline before?
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Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Neville Brand, Louise Lorimer
A vicious New York City cop (Dana Andrews) goes too far when he accidentally kills a suspect while trying to extract information about a crime boss. He concocts a scheme to lay blame on the crime boss, but his efforts go awry.
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The Wild Blue Yonder 1951 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan, Ruth Donnelly, Harry Carey Jr., Penny Edwards, Jack Kelly, William Witney
This film pays tribute to the development of aviation and the daring men who flew bombing missions during World War II.
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You Belong to Me 1941 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Roger Clark, Ruth Donnelly, Melville Cooper, Maude Eburne, Ralph Peters, Renie Riano, Mary Treen
Following an accident on the ski slopes, romance blooms between Helen (Barbara Stanwyck) and Peter (Henry Fonda) in this lame comedy.
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| 1. Alibi Ike (1935)
2. Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
3. Autumn Leaves (1956)
4. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
5. Blessed Event (1932)
6. Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
7. Cain and Mabel (1936)
8. Cinderella Jones (1946)
9. Cross My Heart (1946)
10. Ever in My Heart (1933)
11. Female (1933)
12. Footlight Parade (1933)
13. Hands Across the Table (1935)
14. Hard to Handle (1933)
15. Housewife (1934)
16. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
17. Ladies They Talk About (1933)
18. A Lawless Street (1955)
19. Mandalay (1934)
20. Metropolitan (1935)
21. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
22. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
23. My Little Chickadee (1940)
24. Private Detective 62 (1933)
aka: Man Killer
25. Red Salute (1935)
aka: Her Enlisted Man
aka: Runaway Daughter
aka: Her Uncle Sam
26. The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
27. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
28. The Spoilers (1955)
29. Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
30. This Is the Army (1943)
31. The Way to the Gold (1957)
32. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
33. The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
34. You Belong to Me (1941)
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