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    Monkey Business

    Drinking an elixir makes a professor (Cary Grant) and his wife (Ginger Rogers) act teenage and...

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    Breakout

    A kidnapped boy's (J. Evan Bonifant) ninja friends intervene to save him and his parents from goons...

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    Home Movie (2002)

    Documentary look at five unusual homes and the people who built (or adapted) them.

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    Steamboy (2005)

    In the 19th century the son (Anne Suzuki) of a scientist must prevent a ball of energy from...

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    The Governess (1998)

    A Londoner (Minnie Driver) pretends to be a gentile to work for a dysfunctional couple (Tom...

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    The Perfect Woman

    A man (Wayne Brady) meets a woman (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) who tests his list of qualities wanted for...

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    Dr. Plonk

    A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless...

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    Beauty for the Asking

    A faithful suitor (Donald Woods) woos a young New Yorker (Lucille Ball) in the cosmetics business.

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    Blake of Scotland Yard [Serial]

    Detective Blake is called in on the case after an experimental death ray is stolen.

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    Captain America [Serial]

    Based on the comic book by the same name, the hero takes on a crazed scientist who creates deadly...

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    The Creeper

    Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.

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    The Crimson Ghost [Serial]

    One of the most entertaining serials to be released by Republic Pictures, this mystery employed yet...

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    Edison, The Man (1940)

    Inventor Thomas Alva Edison (Spencer Tracy) finds a bride (Rita Johnson), has a family and wires...

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    Exiled to Shanghai

    Exiled to Shanghai uses the then-waging wars in Spain and China as backdrops for a familiar "rival...

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    The Four Sided Triangle (1953)

    A British scientist (Stephen Murray) duplicates the blonde (Barbara Payton) he loves, but the twins...

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    Free for All

    A pleasant comedy with serious undertones, Free for All stars Robert Cummings as erstwhile inventor...

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    A Girl in a Million

    A British inventor (Hugh Williams) leaves his nagging wife for a colonel's daughter (Joan Greenwood)...

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    Gold

    The German Gold predicts the postwar harnessing of atomic energy for the purposes of scientific...

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    Hidden Enemy

    Spies call on a newsman's (Warren Hull) father (George Cleveland), inventor of a light metal...

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    International House (1933)

    Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention...television.

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    The Invisible Woman (1940)

    A screwy professor's experiments with a gorgeous model attract the attentions of a gangster and a...

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    J'accuse

    This 1938 sci-fi and horror-tinged war drama from writer/director Abel Gance is an updated remake of...

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    Junior G-Men [Serial]

    The Dead End Kids fight alongside the government to find a famed scientist who has been abducted by...

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    The Man in the White Suit

    A chemist (Alec Guinness) alarms British textile tycoons with a new fabric impervious to dirt, wear...

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    The Master Key

    A machine able to extract gold from the ocean floor is desired by both Axis powers and the FBI in...

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    Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

    Sleuth Wong (Boris Karloff) picks up the scent of a poison-gas killer in San Francisco.

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    Murder by Television (1935)

    Twin brothers (Bela Lugosi) confuse the case of a professor killed during a TV demonstration.

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    Mystery Liner

    A mad captain (Noah Beery) seems responsible for a near collision and strangulations at sea.

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    Mystery Plane

    Foreign spies kidnap comic-strip teens Tailspin Tommy (John Trent), Skeeter (Milburn Stone) and...

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    Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

    In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley...