$1000 a Touchdown 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley, Joyce Mathews, Syd Saylor, George McKay, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Edward Gargan, Jimmy Conlan, William Haade, Dewey Robinson, Charles Middleton
Two popular comedians of the time, Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, play a struggling showbiz couple who takes off to run a poor school that she inherits. In order to get money to help the school, it is decided to build up the school's football team. Funny at times.
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Bataan 1943  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnaz, Barry Nelson, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, Alex Havier, Bud Geary
This is one of the great World War II films. It relates the saga of U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his rear guard soldiers as they protect General Douglas MacArthur's army during the retreat down a peninsula on Bataan. They face certain death while delaying the advancing Japanese troops in pursuit of MacArthur but are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their country.
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The Belle of New York 1952 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice Pearce, Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins, Tom Dugan, Henry Slate, Dick Wessel
Playboy Charlie Hill (Fred Astaire) promises to reform and change his ways after he meets and falls in love with mission worker Angela Bonfils (Vera-Ellen).
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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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The Crystal Ball 1943 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Virginia Field, Gladys George, William Bendix, Cecil Kellaway, Frank Conlan, Ernest Truex, Tom Dugan
When she loses a beauty contest, Toni Gerard (Paulette Goddard) turns to fortune telling and real estate swindles to make money. Her immoral business enterprises take their toll on her.
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 Dave 1993  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Parley Baer, Stefan Gierasch, Faith Prince, Laura Linney, Tom Dugan, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Hallahan
Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), who looks exactly like U.S. President Bill Mitchell (also played by Kline), runs an employment agency specializing in temp. work. The President's Chief-of-Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) asks Dave to stand in for the President at a luncheon, and Dave agrees. While Dave is attending the luncheon, the President suffers a stroke when he is having sex with his mistress. In order to keep the indiscretion a secret, Dave agrees to continue his impersonation of the President. It doesn't take long for Dave to learn how to run the government and promote changes he feels will improve the country. And, in the process, he also falls in love with the President's wife Ellen (Sigourney Weaver). 1 User Review
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The Farmer's Daughter 1940  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Martha Raye, Charles Ruggles, Richard Denning, Gertrude Michael, William Frawley, Inez Courtney, William Demarest, Tom Dugan, Darryl Hickman, Si Jenks
Show business comes to the farmlands and the audience will say "so what." Martha Raye is a bright spot.
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Flight for Freedom 1943  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lothar Mendes
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Mary Treen, Theodore von Eltz
A woman pilot, Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell), is romanced by Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray) before she sets off on a flight to look for Japanese strongholds in the Pacific.
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Gambler's Choice 1944 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank McDonald
Cast: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden, Sheldon Leonard, Lee Patrick, Lloyd Corrigan, Lyle Talbot, Tom Dugan, Maxine Lewis, Charles Arnt, Billy Nelson, Milburn Stone
Children–Mary, Mike, and Ross–were caught stealing wallets. Now, 15 years later, Mike (Russell Hayden) is a NYPD detective, Mary (Nancy Kelly) is a nightclub singer, and Ross (Chester Morris) is a gambling casino owner. Mike's job is to crack down on gambling in the city, and their lives are caught in the crossfire.
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 The Ghost Breakers 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Paul Lukas, Willie Best, Anthony Quinn, Tom Dugan, Paul Fix, Richard Carlson, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Brissac
Determined to find a treasure, Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) heads for a haunted house with Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) in tow. Larry is trying to escape from a bum charge and the police are on his tail as he tries to rid the house of ghosts and help Mary find the missing treasure. This film was remade as "Scared Stiff" with Martin and Lewis.
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The Gilded Lily 1935 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith, Luis Alberni, Eddie Craven, Donald Meek, Grace Bradley, Tom Dugan, Claude King
Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) must decide between two potential husbands: English duke Charles Gray (Ray Milland) and American Pete Dawes (Fred MacMurray). Good performance by MacMurray helped him reach stardom.
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Good News 1947 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken, Mel Torme, Donald MacBride, Tom Dugan, Connie Gilchrist, Morris Ankrum, Clinton Sundberg
"Varsity Drag" and "The French Lesson" are just two of the entertaining musical numbers in this film featuring June Allyson as Connie Lane, the Tate College librarian who falls for the school's football hero, Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford).
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Greenwich Village 1944 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine, Felix Bressart, Tony De Marco, Sally De Marco, The Revuers, B.S. Pully, The Four Step Brothers, Emil Rameau, Oliver Blake, Tom Dugan, J. Farrell MacDonald, Judy Holliday
Danny O'Mara (William Bendix) owns a speakeasy in New York City during the early 1920s and is raising money to put on a Broadway show. Unknown to songwriter Ken Harvey (Don Ameche), Danny is adapting Ken's concerto into his musical show. Meanwhile, Ken falls for singer Bonnie Watson (Vivian Blaine) who is the speakeasy's star performer. By story's end, all comes together, and the result is a great show. Songs include "This is Our Lucky Day," When You Wore a Tulip," and "I'm Just Wild about Harry."
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Half a Sinner 1940 N/R, 59 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Mystery
Director: Al Christie
Cast: Heather Angel, John "Dusty" King, Constance Collier, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan, Robert Elliott, Clem Bevans, Emma Dunn, Henry Brandon, William B. Davidson, Fern Emmett, Sonny Bupp, Wilbur Mack, Fred Kohler
Schoolteacher Anne Gladden (Heather Angel) escapes the attentions of a gangster by driving off in his car. What Anne does not know is that there is a corpse in the trunk. While the gangster tries to recover his car, Anne meets a stranger and picks him up. Now they discover the body and try to return the car, but both the gangster and the police are on their trail.
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Home in Indiana 1944 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Walter Brennan, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood, Ward Bond, Charles Dingle, George Cleveland, Roger Imhof, Tom Dugan
Young Sparke Thornton (Lon McCallister) moves to the country where he and J.F. "Thunder" Bolt (Walter Brennan) raise a blind filly that becomes a prize-winning horse. This story was remade as "April Love."
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Johnny Come Lately 1943 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: James Cagney, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel, Grace George, Marjorie Lord, Edward McNamara, William Henry, Robert Barrat, George Cleveland, Margaret Hamilton, Norman Willis, Edwin Stanley, Irving Bacon, Tom Dugan, Lucien Littlefield
Ex-journalist Tom Richards (James Cagney) is a vagrant who happens into a newspaper job in a small town. He works with the editor, Vinnie McLeod (Grace George), to expose political corruption being carried out by W.M. Dougherty (Edward McNamara). After failed attempts, wealthy dowager Gashouse Mary (Marjorie Main) comes to Tom's aid and tells him about an embezzlement plot. Tom publishes the story and puts an end to the corruption.
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The Kid Sister 1945 N/R, 56 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: Roger Pryor, Judy Clark, Frank Jenks, Constance Worth, Tom Dugan, Richard Byron, Minerva Urecal, Ruth Robinson, Peggy Wynne
Teenager Joan (Judy Clark) reads a psychology book and believes that she is officially grown up. To prove it, she sets out to win her older sister Ethel's (Constance Worth) suitor J. Waldo Barnes (Roger Pryor). After her mother (Ruth Robinson) catches on to Joan's plan, she forbids Joan from attending a party for Barnes at their home that night. Joan dresses up as a parlor maid and plans to attend anyway. Things go from bad to worse. Joan escapes out a window, accepts a ride from a burgler (Frank Jenks), and is in for a night of surprises–only to end up with Barnes by story's end.
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The Lemon Drop Kid 1951 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, Fred Clark, Jay C. Flippen, William Frawley, Tom Dugan, Harry Bellaver, Sid Melton, Ben Welden, Ida Moore, Tor Johnson, Jack Kruschen
Based on a Damon Runyan story, this is the remake of the 1934 film about a reformed gangster, The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope). The Kid accidentally gives gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) a bad tip on a race. Now Moran tells The Kid that he must come up with $10,000 to make up for what he would have won. The Kid sets up a fake charity–after all, it is Christmas–and begins to raise the needed funds. This is the film that introduced Ray Evans and Jay Livingston's Christmas ballad, "Silver Bells."
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt 1939 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler, Ralph Morgan, Tom Dugan, Don Beddoe, Marc Lawrence, Ben Welden, Irving Bacon
Warren William takes on the role of reformed jewel thief Michael Lanyard in a new series of Lone Wolf films. B-grade all the way, but enjoyable, with a good mix of mystery and humor. In this one, spies abduct Lanyard in an attempt to have him help steal secret anti-aircraft gun plans.
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Love Affair 1939 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Scotty Beckett, Maurice Moscovitch, Tom Dugan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Joan Leslie
This movie has been remade two times as "An Affair to Remember" in 1958 and again as "Love Affair" (1994). It is the three-hankie story about lovers on an ocean voyage who plan to reunite later, BUT fate intervenes. Six Academy Award nominations were received including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya).
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The Medicine Man 1930 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Scott Pembroke
Cast: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, Eva Novak, E. Alyn Warren, Billy Butts, Adolph Milar, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan, Vadim Uraneff, Dorothea Wolbert, Caroline Rankin
The Medicine Man, Dr. John Harvey (Jack Benny), meets Mamie (Betty Bronson) and her brother, Buddy (Billy Butts), when they attend his medicine show as it passes through their town. Mamie's abusive father, Goltz (E. Alyn Warren), tries to force her into a marriage for money, and, when she asks Harvey for help, he comes to her aid.
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 On the Town 1949  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Hans Conried, Vera-Ellen, Florence Bates, Alice Pearce, George Meader, Don Brodie, Bea Benaderet, Tom Dugan, Milton Kibbee, Dick Wessel
Three sailors–Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin)–get 24-hour passes to enjoy liberty in New York City. While on leave, each finds romance. Gabey falls in love with dancer Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen), Chip finds romance with cabbie Brunhilde (Betty Garrett), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) becomes enchanted with paleontology student Claire (Ann Miller). And a great 24 hours are enjoyed by all in one of the best musicals ever made. The film won an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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Palooka 1934 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Joe Palooka
The Great Schnozzle
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, William Cagney, Thelma Todd, Franklyn Ardell, Tom Dugan, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Louise Beavers, Fred "Snowflake" Toones, Stanley Fields
Fight manager Knobby Walsh (Jimmy Durante) signs up farmboy Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) as a boxer and trains him for a big fight with hard-drinking champ Al "Mac" McSwatt (William Cagney– brother of James Cagney). In this film, Durante sings his song, "Ink-a-Dinka-do."
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Pennies from Heaven 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, Louis Armstrong, John Gallaudet, Tom Dugan, Nana Bryant, Charles C. Wilson, Harry Tyler
The title song, "Pennies from Heaven," was nominated for an Academy Award in this film in which Bing Crosby plays a poor minstrel who befriends an orphan and her grandfather.
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The Phantom of the West 1931 N/R, 170 min.
Genre: Western
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Tom Tyler, William Desmond, Tom Santschi, Dorothy Gulliver, Tom Dugan, Philo McCullough, Frank Lanning, Joe Bonomo, Frank Hagney, Kermit Maynard, Dick Dickinson
The convicted killer of Jim's (Tom Tyler) father escapes from prison, leaving a note to Jim professing his innocence but providing the names of seven men who know the real killer's identity. And the search begins for the killer, with hazards along the way in this 10-episode serial.
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Sing, You Sinners 1938 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Ellen Drew, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Patterson, John Gallaudet, William Haade, Irving Bacon, Tom Dugan
When Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) wheels and deals his way to ownership of a racehorse, the whole Beebe family joins in the act by following "their" horse from track to track.
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Star Witness 1931 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Walter Huston, Charles "Chic" Sale, Frances Starr, Grant Mitchell, Sally Blane, Edward J. Nugent, Ralph Ince, Dickie Moore, Tom Dugan, Russell Hopton
After a family witnesses a crime committed by gangsters and offers to testify in court, gang members intimidate them into committing perjury to defeat the legal system.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane, Tom Dugan, Douglas Fowley, Wilton Graff, Ramon Blackburn, Royce Blackburn, Si Jenks, Joi Lansing, Dick Wessel
This story about the early days of baseball centers on two players –Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien (Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly)–who play for the Wolves, a team owned by K.C. Higgins (Esther Williams). They get into trouble gambling and then work out their financial problems through vaudeville performances during the off-season. Director Busby Berkeley's last film.
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To Be or Not to Be 1942  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, Miles Mander, Tom Dugan
Shakespearean actors Joseph and Maria (Jack Benny and Carole Lombard) help the Polish underground aid families of escaped Polish aviators. This was Carole Lombard's last film.
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Too Many Husbands 1940 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Melville Cooper, Edgar Buchanan, Tom Dugan, Sam McDaniel, Larry Steers, Billy Wayne
This film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's play, "Home and Beauty," features Fred MacMurray as Bill Cardew who was reported drowned at sea and now comes home to find his "widow" Vickie (Jean Arthur) in love with her new husband, Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas). This film was remade as "Three for the Show."
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Wife vs. Secretary 1936 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, James Stewart, Tom Dugan, George Barbier, Hobart Cavanaugh
Linda (Myrna Loy) becomes suspicious of an affair between her publisher husband, Van Sanford (Clark Gable), and his beautiful secretary, Whitey (Jean Harlow), when Van and Whitey fly off to Cuba on business.
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| 1. $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
2. Bataan (1943)
3. The Belle of New York (1952)
4. Blessed Event (1932)
5. The Crystal Ball (1943)
6. Dave (1993)
7. Doctor X (1932)
8. The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
9. Flight for Freedom (1943)
10. Gambler's Choice (1944)
11. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
12. The Gilded Lily (1935)
13. Good News (1947)
14. Greenwich Village (1944)
15. Half a Sinner (1940)
16. Home in Indiana (1944)
17. Johnny Come Lately (1943)
18. The Kid Sister (1945)
19. The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
20. The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
21. Love Affair (1939)
22. The Medicine Man (1930)
23. On the Town (1949)
24. Palooka (1934)
aka: Joe Palooka
aka: The Great Schnozzle
25. Pennies from Heaven (1936)
26. The Phantom of the West (1931)
27. Sing, You Sinners (1938)
28. Star Witness (1931)
29. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
30. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
31. Too Many Husbands (1940)
32. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
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