Emory Parnell Movie Rankings
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Classic Hitchcock. It is 1939 and Johnny Jones, a naive police reporter, is sent by his even more naive boss to cover a "crime" story that's unfolding in Europe: the potential outbreak of a second world war. ... more about Foreign Correspondent
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The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is simpler said than done. ... more about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
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Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember--and she's pregnant. ... more about Miracle of Morgan's Creek
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Graft is rampant in the government of a "mythical" Louisiana, and the arrival of U.S. Senate investigator Loganberry brings panic. ... more about Louisiana Purchase
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When a stranger arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who sent for him has been murdered. Further, most of the townsfolk seem to be at each other's throats, and the newcomer has soon run contrariwise to most of them. ... more about Tall in the Saddle
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Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of kalif Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which failed at first, but supported by the wasir he finally succeeds. ... more about Arabian Nights
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Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. For want of other financing, he takes on as silent partner Merrill Lambert, gangland gambling kingpin. Thus is born the New York Mercury. ... more about Unholy Partners
Not Available on DVD
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Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. ... more about Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
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Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. ... more about Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
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After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. ... more about Two O'Clock Courage
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Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. ... more about You Gotta Stay Happy
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Lowly clerk Aubrey Piper has a fondness for exaggerating about himself to impress people. His fantastic tales of visiting China and working as a manager at his place of employment charm his blind date, quiet and lovely Amy Fisher. ... more about Show-Off
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At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. ... more about Key to the City
Not Available on DVD
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Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson. ... more about Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
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The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. ... more about Ma and Pa Kettle
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1.3797
The Kettles leave their ultra modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Nothing radioactive shows up except Pa's war-surplus overalls. These make car horns honk and light bulbs flash. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. ... more about Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
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Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer. ... more about Bounty Killer
Not Available on DVD
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Anne Nichols updated her original play by moving the time to the (then) present by starting the film with the V-E Day celebration in London, but no fundimental changes otherwise. ... more about Abie's Irish Rose
Not Available on DVD
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Spotted after he microfilms secret U. S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick (Richard Travis) is killed when he tries to make a getaway. ... more about Alaska Patrol
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Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. ... more about All That I Have
Not Available on DVD
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New York City fireman Bill O'Connell (Bob Livingston) is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life. When his friend and batallion chief, J. ... more about Arson Gang Busters
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The Indians, under Chief Mike, have been defeating the Army in Oregon for years. The new commander, Major Archer, plans to defeat the Indians once and for all, but his orders are changed to attempt a peaceful settlement. ... more about Battle of Rogue River
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Fortune hunter Mary Brooks (Florence Rice), posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott (Leif Erikson) and "Waffles" Billings (Gordon Jones), (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the ... more about Blonde from Singapore
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Austin Shannon (Freddie Bartholomew), after showing cowardice in sports and unable to adjust to student life, decides he is a misfit at military school and runs away. He meets newsboy Joe Novak (Jimmy Lydon)and they become friends. ... more about Cadets on Parade
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Utilizing a couple of unusual credits - John T. ... more about Call of the Yukon
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Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Using a tiny camera in the shape of a cigarette lighter, he takes pictures of and documents the miserable conditions. ... more about Chain Gang
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The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. ... more about Colonel Effingham's Raid
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A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape. ... more about Devil's Pipeline
Not Available on DVD
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Vacationing in Hollywood doesn't free the Falcon from investigating murder. The victim is an actor whose fashion designer wife has been having an affair with a director. ... more about Falcon in Hollywood
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A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue. ... more about Falcon's Alibi
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Brothers Dick (James Craig) and Carey Ross (Keith Larsen), eluding the law because of Carey's disregard for laws,cross over the Canadian border from Montana, and join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ... more about Fort Vengeance
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The Gas House Kids take a job delivering an automobile to California, unaware that it is a stolen car. Upon their arrival, they discover a hot-car ring run by a crooked ranch foreman with lecherous designs on the rancher's daughter. ... more about Gas House Kids Go West
Not Available on DVD
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Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (of radio fame) is running for police commissioner against incumbent Haley. ... more about Gildersleeve's Ghost
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Deke (Jack Chaplain), a runaway orphan from a boy's home, is arrested when he prevents Art Finney (Leslie Bradley), a trainer for a wealthy California dog breeder, Andrew Garrett (Richard Webb), from shooting "Rock", a renegade English setter and alleged ... more about Git!
Not Available on DVD
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Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular. ... more about Golden Girl
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Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. ... more about Hellfire
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A newspaper publisher (Emory Parnell) is being blackmailed by a burlesque queen (Joan Woodbury), and he sends one of his reporters (William Tracy) to talk to her. ... more about Here Comes Trouble
Not Available on DVD
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Song-and-dance girls Curly and Stormy Tornado hide out with the guys at Bristol College when they know they can identify the killer of a fellow performer at their San Francisco cabaret. ... more about How to Be Very
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Based on the "Little Iodine" two-panel cartoon strip by Jimmy Hatlo, which had evolved from his "They'll Do It Everytime" strip, Little Iodine was the most-scheming kid in comics aside from Hans and Fritz of the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and ... more about Little Iodine
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Elwin Kettle might win a scholarship to an agricultural college. Essay contest judges Mannering and Crosby decide to choose between the two finalist by spending the weekend at the home of each. ... more about Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
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Night club dancer Flo (Carol Hughes) persuades her janitor-and ex-vaudeville-performer boyfriend, Nifty (Gil Lamb), to overcome his timidity and ask the club manager Burke (Emory Parnell) for an audition. ... more about Night Club Daze
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Jason Cordry is a none-too-bright mystery writer with a big failing: he can't think up solutions to his plots. When he accidentally frames himself for murder, he realizes he hasn't got a solution to this story either. ... more about Over My Dead Body
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Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. ... more about Pardners
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William (One-Take) Beaudine didn't need more than one take on this film as he had already directed it four or five times in his career, as it had been a staple to be dusted off every three or four years at Monogram/Allied Artists dating back to the days ... more about Pride of the Blue Grass
Not Available on DVD
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Reporter Steve Hurley (Carleton Young) is happy when he hears that Crystal McCoy (Evelyn Ankers), star of the burlesque show, is to be replaced by her predecessor, Dolly Devoe (Jaqueline Dalya). Steve hopes Crystal will marry him and give up the stage. ... more about Queen of Burlesque
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Loumas, president of the Rock Island Trail company, tries to expand his rails into the Midwest but finds resistance of the steamship and stage-coach lines. ... more about Rock Island Trail
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Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. He uses it to prevent his orphanage from being shut down by creditors and to help a cute couple fall in love. ... more about Rocket Man
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A bunch of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife. One of their party kills a geologist and Bomba the Jungle Boy must find out whodunnit. He does, while helping them complete their movie. A lion finishes off the culprit. ... more about Safari Drums
Not Available on DVD
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Rancher Rex Allen (Rex Allen) captures a bandit, Delgado (Ric Roman), a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb (Emory Parnell) and saloon owner Mike (Roy Barcroft), who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado. ... more about Shadows of Tombstone
Not Available on DVD
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Phil Richards is selling his nightclub to an out-of-town buyer, and the local mob express this dissatisfaction with the arrangement. When the buyer arrives in town, he is shot and killed. ... more about Shot in the Dark
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Conceited war correspondent Steve Kimball, desperate to get back to the USA from occupied Paris, reluctantly agrees to chaperone a troupe of stranded, teenaged hepcat entertainers. Plus redheaded Bridget, not a real member of the group... ... more about Sing Your Way Home
Not Available on DVD
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When sponsor Nottingham cancels King Russell's radio program, The Hot Shots try to change his mind. They not only fail but Nottingham's son forces them to take him back to Russell's ranch. Once there he starts playing practical jokes. ... more about Song of Idaho
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Ernie (Jackie Cooper), manager of an apartment house that allows no children, finds himself evicted when his wife, Peg (Meg Randall as Gene Roberts), becomes pregnant. ... more about Stork Bites Man
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Viperish Francine Huber seduces visiting salesman Sam Crane. Sam later finds out that Francine is married to a business associate of his and decides to have no more to do with her. ... more about Strange Triangle
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Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy. ... more about Sweethearts on Parade
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Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. ... more about They All Kissed the Bride
Not Available on DVD
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Barbara Stanwyck stars as a hard-as-nails newspaper/radio columnist who will ruin the career of anyone she deems worthy of it. ... more about To Please a Lady
Not Available on DVD
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Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commericial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course. ... more about Trail of Robin Hood
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Harry Davis, principal of the Burberry Elementary School, is concerned because his two little boys wish they were bears. One day, the two boys meet an old gypsy who tells them to use a magic cream and teaches them a spell to turn themselves into bears. ... more about Two Little Bears
Not Available on DVD
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Daisy Baker, a Chicago "refuse collector" who fancies herself as a theatrical agent, finds a play which had been thrown away by two Portuguese playwrights. ... more about Two Señoritas from Chicago
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The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her when she gets a divorce. ... more about Unmasked
Not Available on DVD
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Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover. ... more about Violence
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Set at a factory that makes aircraft for World War II, Roma and Brad Maple's marriage begins to show signs of difficulty. ... more about Wings for the Eagle
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Susan is laying in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up her singing. Marian and Luke found Susan when she was a failure. ... more about Woman's Secret
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