Roy Rogers visits together with three investors the undeveloped gold mines near his dying home town in New Mexico. His goal is to start production in order to revitalize the town. But a local gangster and his men are trying to prevent this and kidnap the three men. In order to free the men and …
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This is an adaption and the first sound version of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. During the 1830’s in London, Oliver was born in an workhouse (a refuge for the poor). Later, at the age of nine, Oliver is send to an orphanage. After being abused, he runs away and falls into the hand …
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Cornelia Bullock, a spoiled socialite offers a vagrant, Godfrey Smith, five dollars to be her “forgotten man” for a scavenger hunt during the Great Depression. Godfrey is seriously angry and causes her to fall on a pile of ashes. Cornelia leaves in a fury — much to the joy of her younger sister Irene who …
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Edward Shaw a LA builder and architect is out of work. He meets Doris Hillmann who has a business proposal for him. They would buy land together, Edward would build houses, Doris would sell them and her husband Gus will contribute half a million dollars as capital. Soon after accepting the proposal and starting an …
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Ella Bishop is a dedicated teacher at a small Mitwestern college. The story shows her live between 1880s and 1930s — from her freshman years up to retirement. A big crises comes up when her fiancĂ©, the lawyer Delbert Thompson, gets her vixenish cousin Amy pregnant. The two run off, but Amy dies in childbirth. …
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Jim Fallon a lumberman is greatly interested in logging the big sequoia redwood trees in northern California. A Quaker colony and their religous leader Elder Bixby have a special relationship to those trees and try to save them from logging. Jim falls for the leaders daughter, Alicia, but does not change his plan to log …
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On the way to Los Angeles for a Dodgers game three people car trouble. They are captured and held by a bloodthirsty psycho and his strange girfriend. source
An ex-soldier travels back to France after the end of World War II in order to find the valuable glove stolen from a country church during the war. During his search he meets a beautiful tour guide and a Nazi collabarator. source
Different people search for different reason for The Green Goddess, the Guatemalan idol. A friend of Tarzan, D’Arnot, has crashed in Guatemala and is now held by a jungle tribe. Two other expeditions, one lead by Major Martling and one by Ula Vale whose fiance died in an earlier one, are looking for the valuable …
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An indian young elephant trainer wants revenge for his family that was killed by a cult. He cannot expect the help of the Maharajah and therefore needs to fight his battle alone. source