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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ian Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) was an American actor whose films date from 1934 to 1990. Until 1934, he worked as a theatre actor. Wolfe mostly found work as a character actor, appearing in over 270 films. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had two daughters. Wolfe was also a veteran of World War I where he served as a medical sergeant in the National Army of the United States. His service number was 2371377. Although American by birth and upbringing, Wolfe was often cast as an Englishman: his stage experience endowed him with precise diction resembling an upper-class British accent. A receding hairline and etched features at a relatively early age allowed him to play older men before he actually grew old. Wolfe found a niche as a soft-spoken learned man, and his over 250 roles included many attorneys, judges, butlers, ministers, professors, and doctors. Wolfe's best-known role may have been in the 1946 movie Bedlam, in which he played a scientist confined to an asylum. Wolfe wrote and self-published two books of poetry Forty-Four Scribbles and a Prayer: Lyrics and Ballads and Sixty Ballads and Lyrics In Search of Music. Of note to science fiction fans, Ian Wolfe appeared in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series: "Bread and Circuses" (1968) as Septimus, and "All Our Yesterdays" (1969) as Mr. Atoz, and portrayed the wizard Traquil in the cult series Wizards and Warriors. In 1982, Wolfe had a small recurring role on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati as Hirsch, the sarcastic, irreverent butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson. Wolfe, who worked until the last couple of years of his life, died January 23, 1992, at age 95, of natural causes. He was cremated. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Wolfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
November 4, 1896
Died
January 23, 1992 (age 95)
Birthplace
Canton, Illinois, USA
Filmography
175 films, 62 shows


Dick Tracy
1990 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.


Checking Out
1988 · 1h 36m
country: United States
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.


Creator
1985 · 1h 47m
country: United States
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.


Jinxed!
1982 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.


Mae West
1982 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.


Reds
1981 · 3h 15m
country: United States
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.


Trouble in High Timber Country
1980 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this pilot film to "The Yeagers" TV series that actually ended months before it aired.


Up the Academy
1980 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.


The Frisco Kid
1979 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.


The Seniors
1978 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.


Mean Dog Blues
1978 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.


Dynasty
1976 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.


Mr. Sycamore
1975 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.


I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
1975 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?


The Fortune
1975 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.


Homebodies
1974 · 1h 36m
country: United States
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.


The Terminal Man
1974 · 1h 47m
country: United States
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.


The Devil's Daughter
1973 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.


THX 1138
1971 · 1h 26m
country: United States
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.


The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
1970 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Based on Charles Goodrum’s book, "I’ll Trade You an Elk." The mayor wants to close down the run-down city zoo and use the site for a museum, but an accountant and his children fight to save it.


The Andersonville Trial
1970 · 2h 30m
country: United States
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.


Games
1967 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.


One Man's Way
1964 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.


Diary of a Madman
1963 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.


The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 · 2h 20m
country: Germany
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."


All in a Night's Work
1961 · 1h 34m
country: United States
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.


The Lost World
1960 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.


Pollyanna
1960 · 2h 14m
country: United States
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.


Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · 1h 56m
country: United States
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.


The Dark Side of the Earth
1957 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.


The Defender (Studio One)
1957 · 1h 41m
country: Unknown
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.


Mayerling
1957 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.


Gaby
1956 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II.


Diane
1956 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.


The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.


Sincerely Yours
1955 · 1h 58m
country: United States
He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.


Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · 1h 51m
country: United States
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.


The King's Thief
1955 · 1h 18m
country: United States
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.


Moonfleet
1955 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.


The Silver Chalice
1954 · 2h 22m
country: United States
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.


Her Twelve Men
1954 · 1h 31m
country: United States
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.


About Mrs. Leslie
1954 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.


The Actress
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.


99 River Street
1953 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.


Houdini
1953 · 1h 46m
country: United States
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.


Julius Caesar
1953 · 2h 1m
country: United States
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.


Scandal at Scourie
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United States
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.


Something for the Birds
1952 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.


Captain Pirate
1952 · 1h 25m
country: United States
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."


Les Miserables
1952 · 1h 45m
country: United States
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.


The Captive City
1952 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.


On Dangerous Ground
1951 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.


Here Comes the Groom
1951 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.


Mask of the Avenger
1951 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.


A Place in the Sun
1951 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.


The Great Caruso
1951 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.


The Magnificent Yankee
1950 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.


Copper Canyon
1950 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.


The Petty Girl
1950 · 1h 27m
country: United States
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.


No Way Out
1950 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.


Please Believe Me
1950 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboard both plan on winning her hand before she reaches America. One is a gambler interested in her money, and the other, a rich man looking for a wife. The rich man's friend, meanwhile, believes the heiress is actually a gold-digger.


They Live by Night
1949 · 1h 36m
country: United States
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.


My Friend Irma
1949 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.


Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
1949 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.


Manhandled
1949 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.


Colorado Territory
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.


Bride of Vengeance
1949 · 1h 32m
country: United States
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.


Homicide
1949 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?


Angel in Exile
1948 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.


Johnny Belinda
1948 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.


Julia Misbehaves
1948 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.


Silver River
1948 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.


The Miracle of the Bells
1948 · 2h
country: United States
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.


Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · 1h 34m
country: United States
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.


Three Daring Daughters
1948 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.


If Winter Comes
1947 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl. As the townsfolk theorize that Mark is the baby's father, Effie - already troubled because of her impending motherhood - commits suicide, and circulating rumors lead the authorities to think Mark killed her. The innocent writer must fight to clear his name.


The Judge Steps Out
1947 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.


Desire Me
1947 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.


The Marauders
1947 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ghost town, only to meet a young woman and her mother there, then find themselves surrounded by a gang of "workmen" intent on tearing down the church if they have to kill the five to do it.


Dishonored Lady
1947 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.


Pursued
1947 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.


California
1947 · 1h 37m
country: United States
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.


That Way with Women
1947 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.


The Falcon's Adventure
1946 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.


The Verdict
1946 · 1h 26m
country: United States
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.


Gentleman Joe Palooka
1946 · 1h 12m
country: United States
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.


The Searching Wind
1946 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.


Dressed to Kill
1946 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.


Without Reservations
1946 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.


Bedlam
1946 · 1h 16m
country: United States
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.


The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
1946 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.


Tomorrow Is Forever
1946 · 1h 45m
country: United States
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.


The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.


Three Strangers
1946 · 1h 32m
country: United States
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.


Confidential Agent
1945 · 1h 58m
country: United States
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.


Strange Confession
1945 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.


The Brighton Strangler
1945 · 1h 7m
country: United States
After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.


Zombies on Broadway
1945 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Blonde Ransom
Blonde Ransom
1945 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.


The Fighting Guardsman
1945 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.


A Song to Remember
1945 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.


Murder in the Blue Room
1944 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.


Mystery of the Riverboat
1944 · 3h 38m
country: United States
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.


The Merry Monahans
1944 · 1h 31m
country: United States
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.


The Pearl of Death
1944 · 1h 9m
country: United States
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.


Reckless Age
1944 · 1h
country: United States
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.


Wilson
1944 · 2h 34m
country: United States
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.


Once Upon a Time
1944 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.


The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.


Her Primitive Man
1944 · 1h 19m
country: United States
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.


The Scarlet Claw
1944 · 1h 14m
country: United States
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.


The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · 2h 6m
country: United States
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
The Case of the Tremendous Trifle
The Case of the Tremendous Trifle
1944 · 20m
country: United States
This documentary short film depicts the importance of tiny ball bearings in the ability of a nation to carry out warfare. As ball bearings are necessary for the operation of almost all machinery, war materiel is vitally dependent on the production of these small metallic globes. Allied military forces in World War II decide it is necessary to curtail Germany's ability to provide itself with ball bearings. Intelligence is gathered from many sources in order to plan an aerial bombing raid on Schweinfurt, home of Germany's ball bearing industry.


The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The Falcon is called to a young woman's school to investigate a murder. When he arrives, another victim is discovered.


Government Girl
1943 · 1h 33m
country: United States
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.


Corvette K-225
1943 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.


The Man from Down Under
1943 · 1h 43m
country: United States
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.


The Falcon in Danger
1943 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.


Don't You Believe It
1943 · 11m
country: United States
This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva never rode naked through the streets of Coventry.


Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 · 1h 11m
country: United States
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.


The Moon Is Down
1943 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.


Random Harvest
1942 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.


Keep 'Em Sailing
1942 · 20m
country: United States
An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.


Nightmare
1942 · 1h 21m
country: United States
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.


Famous Boners
1942 · 10m
country: United States
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.


Now, Voyager
1942 · 1h 57m
country: United States
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.


Mrs. Miniver
1942 · 2h 14m
country: United States
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.


Eagle Squadron
1942 · 1h 49m
country: United States
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.


Saboteur
1942 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.


Secret Agent of Japan
1942 · 1h 12m
country: United States
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.


Born to Sing
1942 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.


Paris Calling
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...


Adventure in Washington
1941 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.


Love Crazy
1941 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.


Singapore Woman
1941 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.


Hudson's Bay
1940 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.


The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.


Foreign Correspondent
1940 · 2h
country: United States
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.


We Who Are Young
1940 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A man violates company policy by getting married.


Earthbound
1940 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.


Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.


The Earl of Chicago
1940 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.


The Return of Doctor X
1939 · 1h 2m
country: United States
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.


Allegheny Uprising
1939 · 1h 21m
country: United States
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.


Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.


The Great Commandment
1939 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.


On Borrowed Time
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.


Tell No Tales
1939 · 1h 9m
country: United States
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.


Society Lawyer
1939 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall who was arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence.


Fast and Loose
1939 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.


Lincoln in the White House
1939 · 21m
country: United States
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.


Blondie
1938 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.


You Can't Take It with You
1938 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.


Marie Antoinette
1938 · 2h 29m
country: United States
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.


Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?


Captain Kidd's Treasure
1938 · 10m
country: United States
In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".


The Firefly
1937 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...


Romance of Louisiana
1937 · 18m
country: United States
A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.


The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.


The Devil Is Driving
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.


The League of Frightened Men
1937 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.


The Prince and the Pauper
1937 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.


The Bold Caballero
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.


The Devil Is a Sissy
1936 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.


Romeo and Juliet
1936 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.


The White Angel
1936 · 1h 32m
country: United States
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.


The Leavenworth Case
1936 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.


Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · 2h 12m
country: United States
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.


Mad Love
1935 · 1h 8m
country: United States
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.


The Raven
1935 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.


The Lost Chick
1935 · 10m
country: United States
A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.


The Mighty Barnum
1934 · 1h 27m
country: United States
20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934.


The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.


The Fountain
1934 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.