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The Hurricane

The Hurricane

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1937 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretens...

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San Francisco

San Francisco

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1936 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.

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The Rains Came

The Rains Came

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but every...

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In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 6.7

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

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Telephone Operator

Telephone Operator

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1937 IMDB Rating: 5.6

A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.

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