74% (1) Margie 94 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [Henry King] [01 Nov 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Young, Glenn Langan, Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari
Writer: F. Hugh Herbert (screen play by), Ruth McKenney (based on stories by), Richard Bransten (based on stories by)
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Plot: Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne; circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, in company with every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Then Margie's date for the prom gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone.
Rotten Tomatoes: This tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper. Margie is first seen fully grown telling her stories to her own teen-age daughter. Back then, Margie was a typical adolescent, crazy about boys and an expert on the day's fashions.
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70% (1) Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops 80 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Charles Lamont] [21 Feb 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Bud Abbott, Fred Clark, Lou Costello, Lynn Bari
Writer: John Grant, Lee Loeb (story)
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Plot: Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.
Rotten Tomatoes: This comedy is set in 1912 and follows the exploits of the funny duo as they purchase the Edison Movie Studio from a con artist. It doesn't take the two long to figure out that they were hoodwinked, and so they follow the grifter to Tinseltown. There they get jobs as stuntmen. Eventually they discover that the crook is posing as Sergei Trumanoff, a director of actioners. They manage to catch him stealing the studio payroll and a merry chase to the airport ensues.
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68% (1) Mr. Moto's Gamble 72 min, APPROVED, [Crime, Mystery] [James Tinling] [07 Apr 1938]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Dick Baldwin, Keye Luke, Lynn Bari, Peter Lorre
Writer: Charles Belden (original screenplay), Jerome Cady (original screenplay), John P. Marquand (based on the character created by)
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Plot: Bad blood exists between Bill Steele and Frankie Stanton, the leading contenders for the heavyweight title, and a grudge match is scheduled. Steele's knockout victory is tainted by his opponent's untimely death, ostensibly from a concussion caused by hitting the canvas. A post-mortem reveals that poison was somehow introduced into a cut above Stanton's eye although it is unclear how and why. Gambling might seem to be the motive as several of the principle suspects, gamblers Clipper McCoy and Nick Crowder, Stanton's shady manager Jerry Connors, and fight promoter Philip Benton, all seemed to have made wagers on the fight. Benton's spoiled daughter and female reporter Penny Kendall are vying for the affections of Steele, who is now slated to fight for the championship against pugnacious Biff Moran. Lt. Riggs of New York Homicide and Moto, who were spectators at the fight, go on the trail of the murderer following the autopsy results. Moto's prime suspect is a shadowy character named John Howard, who collected on huge bets in four different Midwestrern cities after the Stanton fight. Discovering his real identity will be a key to Moto's TKO of the killer.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Mr. Moto teams up with Charlie Chan's Number One son and a kleptomaniac to solve the mysterious death of a prizefighter. Number One son appears because the film was originally intended as an entry in the "Charlie Chan" series.
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68% (1) Hello, Frisco, Hello 99 min, Approved, [Comedy, Musical, Romance] [H. Bruce Humberstone] [26 Mar 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Lynn Bari
Writer: Robert Ellis (screenplay), Helen Logan (screenplay), Richard Macaulay (screenplay)
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Plot: In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Rotten Tomatoes: John Payne stars as Johnnie Cornell, a San Francisco club owner in and out of love with singer Trudy (Alice Faye).
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64% (1) The Amazing Mr. X 78 min, APPROVED, [Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller] [Bernard Vorhaus] [29 Jul 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Cathy O'Donnell, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Turhan Bey
Writer: Crane Wilbur (original story), Muriel Roy Bolton (screenplay), Ian McLellan Hunter (screenplay)
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Plot: On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Rotten Tomatoes: Also known as The Amazing Mr. X, The Spiritualist stars Turhan Bey as the title character, a mysterious mystic named Alexis. Making a comfortable living by fleecing the gullible wealthy, Alexis' latest target is grieving young widow Christine Faber (Lynn Bari). Hoping to communicate with her husband, who supposedly died in a car crash two years earlier, Christine submits to Alexis' crystal-ball act. Our hero finds out more than he bargained for when the "deceased" Mr. Faber (Donald Curtis) turns up very much alive as the central figure in an elaborate fraud scheme.
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63% (1) Shock 70 min, [Film-Noir, Thriller] [Alfred L. Werker] [01 Feb 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Anabel Shaw, Frank Latimore, Lynn Bari, Vincent Price
Writer: Eugene Ling (screenplay), Albert DeMond (story), Martin Berkeley (additional dialogue)
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Plot: Dr. Cross, a psychiatrist, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart, who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. As she comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He takes her to his sanitarium and urged by his nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan, gives Janet an overdose of insulin. But he can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. She refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. He saves Janet's life, but now faces two murder charges.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). As Janet attempts to convince her husband (Frank Latimore) of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
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56% (1) The Bridge of San Luis Rey 107 min, UNRATED, [Drama, Romance] [Rowland V. Lee] [11 Feb 1944]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, External Reviews
Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Alla Nazimova, Francis Lederer, Lynn Bari
Writer: Thornton Wilder (novel), Howard Estabrook (adaptation), Herman Weissman (adaptation), Howard Estabrook (screenplay)
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Plot: A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the novel by Thornton Wilder, this is the story of an 18th-century priest who decides to investigate the collapse of a bridge in Peru which kills five people.
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