Ray Collins

Ray Collins

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television. With 900 stage roles to his credit, he became one of the most successful actors in the developing field of radio drama. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Collins went to Hollywood with the Mercury Theatre company and made his feature-film debut in Citizen Kane, as Kane's ruthless political rival. Collins appeared in more than 75 films and had one of his best-remembered roles on television, as the irascible Lieutenant Arthur Tragg on the television series Perry Mason.

  • Title: Ray Collins
  • Popularity: 8.091
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-12-09
  • Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Raymond Bidwell Collins, Ray Bidwell Collins
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Ray Collins Movies

  • 1941
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    Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane

    8 1941 HD

    Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

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  • 1946
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    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives

    7.8 1946 HD

    It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

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  • 1942
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    The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    7.332 1942 HD

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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  • 1958
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    Touch of Evil

    Touch of Evil

    7.8 1958 HD

    When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along...

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  • 1949
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    The Price of Freedom

    The Price of Freedom

    1 1949 HD

    The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns...

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  • 1949
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    The Fountainhead

    The Fountainhead

    6.8 1949 HD

    An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...

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  • 1951
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    The Racket

    The Racket

    6.3 1951 HD

    The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on...

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  • 1946
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    Crack-Up

    Crack-Up

    5.6 1946 HD

    Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

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  • 1947
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    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    7 1947 HD

    Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her...

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  • 1949
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    The Heiress

    The Heiress

    7.7 1949 HD

    In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...

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  • 1947
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    A Double Life

    A Double Life

    6.3 1947 HD

    A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

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  • 1948
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    The Man from Colorado

    The Man from Colorado

    6.7 1948 HD

    Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to...

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  • 1950
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    Summer Stock

    Summer Stock

    6.73 1950 HD

    To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores...

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  • 1951
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    Vengeance Valley

    Vengeance Valley

    5.3 1951 HD

    A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred,...

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  • 1947
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    The Senator Was Indiscreet

    The Senator Was Indiscreet

    5.4 1947 HD

    A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...

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  • 1950
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    The Reformer and the Redhead

    The Reformer and the Redhead

    6.3 1950 HD

    A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

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  • 1950
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    Paid in Full

    Paid in Full

    6.6 1950 HD

    Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.

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  • 1946
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    Badman's Territory

    Badman's Territory

    5.8 1946 HD

    After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law...

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  • 1945
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    Leave Her to Heaven

    Leave Her to Heaven

    7.367 1945 HD

    A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

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  • 1943
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    The Human Comedy

    The Human Comedy

    6.2 1943 HD

    Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to...

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  • 1955
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    The Desperate Hours

    The Desperate Hours

    7 1955 HD

    Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

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  • 1952
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    Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

    Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

    7.2 1952 HD

    The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he...

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  • 1944
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    Can't Help Singing

    Can't Help Singing

    5.1 1944 HD

    With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has...

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  • 1951
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    You're in the Navy Now

    You're in the Navy Now

    4.4 1951 HD

    When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S....

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  • 1949
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    Hideout

    Hideout

    5.4 1949 HD

    Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the...

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  • 1953
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    Bad for Each Other

    Bad for Each Other

    5.7 1953 HD

    A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

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  • 1943
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    Whistling in Brooklyn

    Whistling in Brooklyn

    6.3 1943 HD

    Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

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  • 1943
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    Crime Doctor

    Crime Doctor

    6.2 1943 HD

    Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading...

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  • 1956
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    The Solid Gold Cadillac

    The Solid Gold Cadillac

    6.3 1956 HD

    Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends...

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  • 1945
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    The Hidden Eye

    The Hidden Eye

    7.6 1945 HD

    A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.

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  • 1943
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    Salute to the Marines

    Salute to the Marines

    6.8 1943 HD

    It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first...

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  • 1944
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    See Here, Private Hargrove

    See Here, Private Hargrove

    6 1944 HD

    Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

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  • 1948
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    7 1948 HD

    Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than...

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  • 1942
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    The Big Street

    The Big Street

    5.8 1942 HD

    Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

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  • 1942
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    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    5.3 1942 HD

    A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force...

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  • 1942
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    Highways by Night

    Highways by Night

    6 1942 HD

    A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

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  • 1942
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    The Navy Comes Through

    The Navy Comes Through

    5.6 1942 HD

    A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

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  • 1948
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    Good Sam

    Good Sam

    6 1948 HD

    Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and...

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  • 1955
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    The Miracle on 34th Street

    The Miracle on 34th Street

    5.3 1955 HD

    One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this...

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  • 1931
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    Words & Music

    Words & Music

    1 1931 HD

    Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is...

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  • 1952
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    Invitation

    Invitation

    6.5 1952 HD

    A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

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  • 1952
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    Young Man with Ideas

    Young Man with Ideas

    4.688 1952 HD

    A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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  • 1945
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    Roughly Speaking

    Roughly Speaking

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

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  • 1946
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    Night in Paradise

    Night in Paradise

    4 1946 HD

    Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

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  • 1953
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    Column South

    Column South

    6 1953 HD

    In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico...

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  • 1955
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    Texas Lady

    Texas Lady

    5.4 1955 HD

    Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. ...

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  • 1956
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.6 1956 HD

    In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist...

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  • 1954
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    Rose Marie

    Rose Marie

    4 1954 HD

    Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian...

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  • 1943
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    Slightly Dangerous

    Slightly Dangerous

    5.8 1943 HD

    Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

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  • 1946
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    Up Goes Maisie

    Up Goes Maisie

    6.7 1946 HD

    A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

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  • 1946
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    Boys' Ranch

    Boys' Ranch

    6.5 1946 HD

    A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

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  • 1953
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    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song

    6.5 1953 HD

    Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The...

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  • 1951
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    I Want You

    I Want You

    5.2 1951 HD

    The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII...

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  • 1946
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    Three Wise Fools

    Three Wise Fools

    5 1946 HD

    An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

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  • 1944
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    The Eve of St. Mark

    The Eve of St. Mark

    5.7 1944 HD

    Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz...

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  • 1946
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    Two Years Before the Mast

    Two Years Before the Mast

    6.2 1946 HD

    In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own...

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  • 1947
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    The Red Stallion

    The Red Stallion

    1 1947 HD

    Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.

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  • 2014
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    Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living

    Jamaica's Cool Runners: Pushcarts and the Art of Living

    1 2014 HD

    Jamaica, famous for its decelerated lifestyle and home of the Reggae music, is also the birthplace of the unique, multi-purpose steerable pushcart:...

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  • 1948
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    For the Love of Mary

    For the Love of Mary

    5.8 1948 HD

    Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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  • 1946
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    Miss Susie Slagle's

    Miss Susie Slagle's

    10 1946 HD

    A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

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  • 1944
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    Barbary Coast Gent

    Barbary Coast Gent

    4.6 1944 HD

    Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...

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  • 1932
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    The Trans-Atlantic Mystery

    The Trans-Atlantic Mystery

    4.333 1932 HD

    A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.

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  • 1949
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    It Happens Every Spring

    It Happens Every Spring

    6.5 1949 HD

    A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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  • 1952
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    Dreamboat

    Dreamboat

    6 1952 HD

    Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been...

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  • 1948
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    Command Decision

    Command Decision

    6.6 1948 HD

    High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

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  • 1957
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    Spoilers of the Forest

    Spoilers of the Forest

    1 1957 HD

    Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's...

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  • 1949
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    Red Stallion In The Rockies

    Red Stallion In The Rockies

    1 1949 HD

    Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

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  • 1948
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    The Swordsman

    The Swordsman

    1 1948 HD

    Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

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  • 1950
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    Francis

    Francis

    5.5 1950 HD

    The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic...

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  • 1940
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    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

    8 1940 HD

    A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.

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  • 1951
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    Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

    Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

    6.3 1951 HD

    The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether...

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  • 1950
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    Kill the Umpire

    Kill the Umpire

    6.2 1950 HD

    Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah...

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  • 1949
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    Free For All

    Free For All

    6 1949 HD

    The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.

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  • 1931
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    One Way Out

    One Way Out

    1 1931 HD

    A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man...

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  • 1953
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    The Kid from Left Field

    The Kid from Left Field

    7.2 1953 HD

    Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son,...

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  • 1956
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    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    1 1956 HD

    The Go-Getter (1956)

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  • 1951
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    Reunion in Reno

    Reunion in Reno

    6 1951 HD

    A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

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  • 1944
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    Main Street Today

    Main Street Today

    6.7 1944 HD

    This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.2 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

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  • 1954
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    Athena

    Athena

    5.6 1954 HD

    A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

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  • 1960
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    I'll Give My Life

    I'll Give My Life

    6 1960 HD

    This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to...

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  • 1944
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    The Seventh Cross

    The Seventh Cross

    6.7 1944 HD

    In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...

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  • 1980
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    Viva la clase media

    Viva la clase media

    5.3 1980 HD

    Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.6 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.4 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    2.7 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    4.2 1955 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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  • 1952
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    Cavalcade of America

    Cavalcade of America

    3.5 1952 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1954
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    The Halls of Ivy

    The Halls of Ivy

    1 1954 HD

    The Halls of Ivy is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being...

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  • 1955
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    The 20th Century Fox Hour

    4.2 1955 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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