Edmund Breese

Edmund Breese

From Wikipedia Edmund Breese (June 18, 1871 – April 6, 1936) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Long on the stage with a varied Broadway career before entering movies he appeared with James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo (1893), The Lion and the Mouse (1906) with Richard Bennett, The Third Degree (1909) with Helen Ware, The Master Mind (1913) with Elliott Dexter, the popular World War I era play Why Marry? (1917) with Estelle Winwood & Nat C. Goodwin and So This Is London (1922) with Donald Gallaher. He appeared in 129 films between 1914 and 1935. He is best remembered as the advice-giving German businessman at the beginning of the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. His final role was on stage in Night of January 16th from September 1935 to April 1936. Just before the play ended its run, Breese developed peritonitis, which he died from on April 6, 1936.

  • Title: Edmund Breese
  • Popularity: 0.795
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1871-06-17
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Edmund Breese Movies

  • 1933
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    Duck Soup

    Duck Soup

    7.3 1933 HD

    Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

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  • 1928
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    Finders Keepers

    Finders Keepers

    1 1928 HD

    Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

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  • 1928
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    Burning Daylight

    Burning Daylight

    5 1928 HD

    Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson....

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  • 1931
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    Platinum Blonde

    Platinum Blonde

    6.7 1931 HD

    Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...

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  • 1929
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    Sonny Boy

    Sonny Boy

    1 1929 HD

    Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her...

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  • 1931
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    Young Sinners

    Young Sinners

    1 1931 HD

    The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.

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  • 1927
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    Paradise for Two

    Paradise for Two

    1 1927 HD

    Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.

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  • 1934
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    Return of the Terror

    Return of the Terror

    6 1934 HD

    "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.

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  • 1928
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    The Perfect Crime

    The Perfect Crime

    1 1928 HD

    A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

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  • 1932
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    The Hurricane Express

    The Hurricane Express

    5.1 1932 HD

    The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of...

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  • 1933
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    Fighting With Kit Carson

    Fighting With Kit Carson

    6 1933 HD

    In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery...

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  • 1933
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    Trying Out Torchy

    Trying Out Torchy

    1 1933 HD

    The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.

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  • 1934
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    Broadway Bill

    Broadway Bill

    6 1934 HD

    Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...

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  • 1919
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    An Honorable Cad

    An Honorable Cad

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1932
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    The Match King

    The Match King

    6.6 1932 HD

    Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

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  • 1916
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    The Weakness of Strength

    The Weakness of Strength

    1 1916 HD

    Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never...

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  • 1932
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    Cross-Examination

    Cross-Examination

    5.1 1932 HD

    Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father....

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  • 1931
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    Millie

    Millie

    5.6 1931 HD

    After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The...

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  • 1931
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    Chinatown After Dark

    Chinatown After Dark

    3.7 1931 HD

    The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.

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  • 1932
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    The Hatchet Man

    The Hatchet Man

    4.9 1932 HD

    When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

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  • 1923
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    Luck

    Luck

    1 1923 HD

    A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He...

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  • 1934
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    Lost in the Stratosphere

    Lost in the Stratosphere

    4.7 1934 HD

    Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But...

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  • 1925
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    Womanhandled

    Womanhandled

    7 1925 HD

    Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to...

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  • 1932
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    The Reckoning

    The Reckoning

    4.4 1932 HD

    Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

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  • 1931
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    Morals for Women

    Morals for Women

    3.3 1931 HD

    A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.

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  • 1928
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    The Wright Idea

    The Wright Idea

    1 1928 HD

    A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the...

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  • 1924
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    Damaged Hearts

    Damaged Hearts

    1 1924 HD

    Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...

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  • 1932
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    Torchy Raises the Auntie

    Torchy Raises the Auntie

    1 1932 HD

    Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up,...

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  • 1931
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    Torchy Passes the Buck

    Torchy Passes the Buck

    1 1931 HD

    Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a...

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  • 1932
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    Torchy Turns the Trick

    Torchy Turns the Trick

    1 1932 HD

    When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by...

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  • 1932
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    Torchy's Night Cap

    Torchy's Night Cap

    1 1932 HD

    Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to...

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  • 1931
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    Torchy

    Torchy

    1 1931 HD

    Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

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  • 1932
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    Torchy's Two Toots

    Torchy's Two Toots

    1 1932 HD

    When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.

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  • 1932
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    Torchy's Busy Day

    Torchy's Busy Day

    1 1932 HD

    Edmund Breese, Ray Cooke's boss, is trying to buy a sausage factory. However, the cash hasn't come through, so he sends an insulting telegram to the...

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  • 1933
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    Torchy's Kitty Coup

    Torchy's Kitty Coup

    1 1933 HD

    Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with...

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  • 1932
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    Torchy Rolls His Own

    Torchy Rolls His Own

    1 1932 HD

    In the eighth of the series of short sound comedies, Ray Cooke as the office boy 'Torchy' is thought to be a whiz at polo -- don't ask; in these...

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  • 1933
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    Torchy Turns Turtle

    Torchy Turns Turtle

    1 1933 HD

    One of those gangs of Arab spies who use to infest Wall Street in their colorful native costumes steals a super-secret bomb formula from Edmund...

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  • 1932
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    Alias Mary Smith

    Alias Mary Smith

    5 1932 HD

    A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

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  • 1931
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    The Good Bad Girl

    The Good Bad Girl

    5.5 1931 HD

    A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

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  • 1932
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    Young Bride

    Young Bride

    3 1932 HD

    A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.

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  • 1932
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    Drifting Souls

    Drifting Souls

    1 1932 HD

    A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering...

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  • 1933
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    Laughing at Life

    Laughing at Life

    6 1933 HD

    Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe...

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  • 1932
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    Women Won't Tell

    Women Won't Tell

    1 1932 HD

    A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is...

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  • 1930
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    Kismet

    Kismet

    3.5 1930 HD

    Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

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  • 1930
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    The Sea Bat

    The Sea Bat

    4.6 1930 HD

    The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.

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  • 1933
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    A Man of Sentiment

    A Man of Sentiment

    1 1933 HD

    A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.

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  • 1931
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    Defenders of the Law

    Defenders of the Law

    6 1931 HD

    A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather...

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  • 1931
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    The Painted Desert

    The Painted Desert

    5 1931 HD

    Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

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  • 1933
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    Above the Clouds

    Above the Clouds

    6 1933 HD

    Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages...

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  • 1932
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    The Cabin in the Cotton

    The Cabin in the Cotton

    6.3 1932 HD

    Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

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  • 1926
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    The Brown Derby

    The Brown Derby

    6 1926 HD

    Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns...

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  • 1934
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.508 1934 HD

    In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in...

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  • 1925
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    The Live Wire

    The Live Wire

    1 1925 HD

    The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him...

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  • 1934
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    Dancing Man

    Dancing Man

    1 1934 HD

    A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.

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  • 1930
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    Top Speed

    Top Speed

    6 1930 HD

    An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

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  • 1930
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    Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    4 1930 HD

    A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.

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  • 1930
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    Tol'able David

    Tol'able David

    7 1930 HD

    Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921...

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  • 1931
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    The Public Defender

    The Public Defender

    6 1931 HD

    A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

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  • 1930
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    Playboy of Paris

    Playboy of Paris

    7 1930 HD

    Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her....

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  • 1927
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    Back to Liberty

    Back to Liberty

    1 1927 HD

    Tom Devon, alias Reginald Briand, is the mastermind behind an organization of gentlemen thieves, including Jimmy Stevens and Rudolph Gambier. Jimmy...

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  • 1925
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    The Early Bird

    The Early Bird

    1 1925 HD

    An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to...

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  • 1930
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    Chiselers of Hollywood

    Chiselers of Hollywood

    1 1930 HD

    Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.

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  • 1932
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    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly

    5.4 1932 HD

    Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years...

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  • 1929
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    In the Headlines

    In the Headlines

    1 1929 HD

    A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown...

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  • 1929
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    The Hottentot

    The Hottentot

    1 1929 HD

    The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on...

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  • 1924
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    The Sixth Commandment

    The Sixth Commandment

    1 1924 HD

    John Brant, a devoted minister, is in love with Marian Calhoun, but must keep it a secret because she is engaged to Robert Fields. However is playing...

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  • 1932
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    Police Court

    Police Court

    5 1932 HD

    A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.

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  • 1933
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    International House

    International House

    5.3 1933 HD

    Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house...

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  • 1930
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    Rough Waters

    Rough Waters

    1 1930 HD

    A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

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  • 1932
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    Love Bound

    Love Bound

    4.5 1932 HD

    A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the...

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  • 1930
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    7.756 1930 HD

    When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

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  • 1928
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    On Trial

    On Trial

    6 1928 HD

    A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very...

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  • 1929
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    Fancy Baggage

    Fancy Baggage

    1 1929 HD

    In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary....

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  • 1928
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    Conquest

    Conquest

    1 1928 HD

    Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One...

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  • 1934
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    Come On, Marines!

    Come On, Marines!

    5 1934 HD

    "Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle...

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  • 1930
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    Hold Everything

    Hold Everything

    6 1930 HD

    A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

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  • 1931
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    Mata Hari

    Mata Hari

    6.2 1931 HD

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

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  • 1921
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    Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    3 1921 HD

    Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes...

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  • 1922
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    Beyond the Rainbow

    Beyond the Rainbow

    1 1922 HD

    Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his...

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  • 1926
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    Stepping Along

    Stepping Along

    1 1926 HD

    Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New...

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  • 1929
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    Girl Overboard

    Girl Overboard

    1 1929 HD

    A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he...

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  • 1933
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    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

    How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points

    1 1933 HD

    The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.

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  • 1932
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    As You Desire Me

    As You Desire Me

    6.2 1932 HD

    Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...

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  • 1924
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    The Speed Spook

    The Speed Spook

    3 1924 HD

    An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a...

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  • 1926
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    The Highbinders

    The Highbinders

    1 1926 HD

    Author David Marshall is sandbagged by holdup men and loses his memory. He finds his way to a bookshop run by his friend Ladd, who takes him in with...

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  • 1930
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    The Czar of Broadway

    The Czar of Broadway

    1 1930 HD

    Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

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  • 1928
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    The Haunted House

    The Haunted House

    1 1928 HD

    Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which...

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  • 1933
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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

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  • 1933
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    The Billion Dollar Scandal

    The Billion Dollar Scandal

    1 1933 HD

    An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

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  • 1932
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    The Golden West

    The Golden West

    4 1932 HD

    Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He...

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  • 1923
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    Bright Lights of Broadway

    Bright Lights of Broadway

    1 1923 HD

    An innocent country girl who happens to have a lovely singing voice falls under the influence of a ruthless Broadway producer. At first she's dazzled...

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  • 1931
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    The She-Wolf

    The She-Wolf

    1 1931 HD

    An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer.

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  • 1915
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    The Song of the Wage Slave

    The Song of the Wage Slave

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1933
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    Female

    Female

    6.3 1933 HD

    Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design...

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  • 1934
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    Beloved

    Beloved

    1 1934 HD

    Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

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  • 1923
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    Three O'Clock in the Morning

    Three O'Clock in the Morning

    1 1923 HD

    Impulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after breaking with her fiance, Clayton Webster. Hugo Von...

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  • 1924
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    Restless Wives

    Restless Wives

    1 1924 HD

    1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.

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  • 1933
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    On Your Guard

    On Your Guard

    6 1933 HD

    An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.

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  • 1920
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    Chains of Evidence

    Chains of Evidence

    1 1920 HD

    Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that...

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  • 1919
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    Someone Must Pay

    Someone Must Pay

    1 1919 HD

    Broker Henry Taylor is furious at the attention his wife Regina receives from Charles Bryant, an elderly bachelor. When he comes home one night and...

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  • 1916
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    The Lure of Heart's Desire

    The Lure of Heart's Desire

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1916
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    The Spell of the Yukon

    The Spell of the Yukon

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1918
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    The Master Crook

    The Master Crook

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1923
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    Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

    Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

    1 1923 HD

    Jacqueline Roland, the daughter of a backwoodsman, meets Henri Dubois during a visit to the city, but is unresponsive to his attentions. Henri later...

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  • 1932
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    Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure

    Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure

    1 1932 HD

    The story is set in the final days of the Civil War and spies from the North and the South. And, in the midst of this, a Yankee falls in love with...

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  • 1922
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    Sure-Fire Flint

    Sure-Fire Flint

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1924
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    Those Who Judge

    Those Who Judge

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1921
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    A Man's Home

    A Man's Home

    1 1921 HD

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