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Oliver H.P. Garrett

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06-05-1894

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New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

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Sealed Cargo

Sealed Cargo

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
6.4

Year:

1951

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
6.7

Year:

1946

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
6.3

Year:

1946

Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
5.2

Year:

1943

Careful, Soft Shoulders

Careful, Soft Shoulders

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.
6.0

Year:

1942

Careful, Soft Shoulders

Careful, Soft Shoulders

In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.
6.0

Year:

1942

Underground

Underground

A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
6.1

Year:

1941

The Man I Married

The Man I Married

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
6.3

Year:

1940

One Third of a Nation

One Third of a Nation

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.
5.8

Year:

1939

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

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 pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
6.6

Year:

1937

One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket

A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
5.0

Year:

1935

She Couldn't Take It

She Couldn't Take It

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
4.5

Year:

1935

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
7.0

Year:

1934

Night Flight

Night Flight

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
5.8

Year:

1933

The Story of Temple Drake

The Story of Temple Drake

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
6.5

Year:

1933

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
6.2

Year:

1932

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
6.5

Year:

1932

The Man from Yesterday

The Man from Yesterday

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
4.8

Year:

1932

The World and the Flesh

The World and the Flesh

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
6.5

Year:

1932

Night Nurse

Night Nurse

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
6.8

Year:

1931

The Vice Squad

The Vice Squad

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
7.0

Year:

1931

City Streets

City Streets

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
6.2

Year:

1931

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
0.0

Year:

1931

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
5.3

Year:

1930

For the Defense

For the Defense

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
4.8

Year:

1930

Three Faces East

Three Faces East

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
4.7

Year:

1930

The Texan

The Texan

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
5.8

Year:

1930

Street of Chance

Street of Chance

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
6.6

Year:

1930

Chinatown Nights

Chinatown Nights

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
4.2

Year:

1929

Forgotten Faces

Forgotten Faces

A petty thief (Clive Brook) just robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, finally is caught and sent to Sing Sing. After good behavior, he gets an emergency permission for a return home, so that he may save his daughter from the hands of her disreputable mother (Baclanova). However, he must first promise not to kill his wife while he is out of prison.
0.0

Year:

1928

Ladies of the Mob

Ladies of the Mob

A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
0.0

Year:

1928

The Drag Net

The Drag Net

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.
6.0

Year:

1928