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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with...

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Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

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Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.4

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shoot...

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Dreaming Out Loud

Dreaming Out Loud

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

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Mexican Spitfire

Mexican Spitfire

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their...

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Billy the Kid in Texas

Billy the Kid in Texas

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.1

In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico jail. He escapes and meets his pal, Fuzzy Jones, in...

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The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 6.1

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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Phantom of Chinatown

Phantom of Chinatown

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 5.8

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His l...

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That Gang of Mine

That Gang of Mine

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 5.8

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race,...

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Up in the Air

Up in the Air

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 5.7

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-...

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