Ralph Murphy

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Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9

Star Spangled Rhythm

Mar 05, 1942

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 99 min 8 vues
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Comedy
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
6

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Dec 05, 1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941 10 min 1 vues
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Documentary
Captain Pirate
5.4

Captain Pirate

Aug 27, 1952

Captain Pirate
1952 85 min 9 vues
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
Adventure
Glamour Boy
6

Glamour Boy

Dec 05, 1941

Glamour Boy
1941 79 min 1 vues
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
Drama
Pacific Blackout
6.3

Pacific Blackout

Dec 31, 1941

Pacific Blackout
1941 76 min 3 vues
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Mystery
Panama Flo
7

Panama Flo

Jan 19, 1932

Panama Flo
1932 72 min 3 vues
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Drama
How DOooo You Do
1

How DOooo You Do

Dec 24, 1945

How DOooo You Do
1945 80 min 1 vues
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
Comedy
Las Vegas Nights
5

Las Vegas Nights

Mar 28, 1941

Las Vegas Nights
1941 90 min 3 vues
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
Comedy
The Big Shot
1

The Big Shot

Dec 31, 1931

The Big Shot
1931 66 min 1 vues
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Comedy
le sérum de longue vie
5.4

le sérum de longue vie

Jan 19, 1945

le sérum de longue vie
1945 92 min 4 vues
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Drama
The Town Went Wild
5

The Town Went Wild

Dec 15, 1944

The Town Went Wild
1944 77 min 1 vues
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Comedy
Mickey
6

Mickey

Jun 23, 1948

Mickey
1948 87 min 1 vues
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
Comedy
Girl Without a Room
5.3

Girl Without a Room

Dec 08, 1933

Girl Without a Room
1933 78 min 3 vues
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Comedy
Rainbow Island
6

Rainbow Island

Oct 05, 1944

Rainbow Island
1944 98 min 1 vues
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
Music
Sunbonnet Sue
5

Sunbonnet Sue

Oct 05, 1945

Sunbonnet Sue
1945 89 min 3 vues
Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.
Comedy
Night Plane from Chungking
6

Night Plane from Chungking

May 31, 1943

Night Plane from Chungking
1943 69 min 1 vues
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
Action
Sh! The Octopus
5.6

Sh! The Octopus

Dec 11, 1937

Sh! The Octopus
1937 54 min 15 vues
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
Mystery
Top of the Town
5.2

Top of the Town

Apr 17, 1937

Top of the Town
1937 86 min 4 vues
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Music
The Man I Marry
1

The Man I Marry

Oct 31, 1936

The Man I Marry
1936 79 min 1 vues
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
Drama
Sunbonnet Sue
5

Sunbonnet Sue

Oct 05, 1945

Sunbonnet Sue
1945 89 min 3 vues
Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.
Comedy
Menace
6.5

Menace

Nov 22, 1934

Menace
1934 58 min 2 vues
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
Mystery
Florida Special
6

Florida Special

Apr 21, 1936

Florida Special
1936 70 min 1 vues
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
Comedy
Strictly Personal
5

Strictly Personal

Mar 17, 1933

Strictly Personal
1933 71 min 1 vues
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Drama
Young Bride
3

Young Bride

Apr 08, 1932

Young Bride
1932 76 min 2 vues
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Drama
Salute for Three
1

Salute for Three

Mar 17, 1943

Salute for Three
1943 74 min 1 vues
Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake, leader of an all-girl orchestra; his photographer Foggy, and his secretary Myrt. Jimmy, thinking Judy needs publicity in order to get a singing job on a radio program, thinks that a romance between her and the war hero would be just the ticket.
Comedy
Night Club Scandal
4

Night Club Scandal

Nov 11, 1937

Night Club Scandal
1937 70 min 3 vues
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Drama
She Made Her Bed
3.5

She Made Her Bed

Apr 26, 1934

She Made Her Bed
1934 71 min 2 vues
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
Romance
Les mystères de la jungle noire
5

Les mystères de la jungle noire

Feb 16, 1954

Les mystères de la jungle noire
1954 80 min 1 vues
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
Mystery
McFadden´s Flats
1

McFadden´s Flats

Mar 12, 1935

McFadden´s Flats
1935 65 min 1 vues
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and his wife Nora send their tomboyish daughter Molly to an expensive girls' school to teach her etiquette. Molly only agrees to go after her sweetheart, Sandy MacTavish, convinces her she should. When Dan is unable to complete the apartments because of a lack of money, Sandy's father Jock, a Scottish barber and Dan's best friend, secretly backs Dan's loan at the bank, even though Jock is known for his penny-pinching ways.
Comedy
Song of the Eagle
1

Song of the Eagle

Apr 27, 1933

Song of the Eagle
1933 83 min 1 vues
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Drama
Millie
5.6

Millie

Feb 06, 1931

Millie
1931 85 min 16 vues
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Drama
A Woman of Experience
5.2

A Woman of Experience

Jul 08, 1931

A Woman of Experience
1931 74 min 3 vues
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Romance
Private Scandal
1

Private Scandal

May 11, 1934

Private Scandal
1934 62 min 1 vues
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The film stars ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks, Lew Cody, June Brewster, and Harold Waldridge. The film was released on May 11, 1934 by Paramount Pictures.
Comedy
Golden Harvest
5

Golden Harvest

Sep 21, 1933

Golden Harvest
1933 72 min 1 vues
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Drama
One Hour Late
3.3

One Hour Late

Dec 14, 1934

One Hour Late
1934 74 min 3 vues
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Comedy
Lady In The Iron Mask
1

Lady In The Iron Mask

Jul 04, 1952

Lady In The Iron Mask
1952 78 min 1 vues
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
Adventure
The Tip-Off
5.2

The Tip-Off

Oct 16, 1931

The Tip-Off
1931 71 min 5 vues
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Comedy
Sweepstakes
4.5

Sweepstakes

Jul 10, 1931

Sweepstakes
1931 77 min 2 vues
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Drama
Collegiate
1

Collegiate

Jan 22, 1936

Collegiate
1936 80 min 1 vues
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
The Notorious Sophie Lang
5.7

The Notorious Sophie Lang

Jul 20, 1934

The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 64 min 3 vues
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
Comedy
70,000 Witnesses
4.8

70,000 Witnesses

Sep 09, 1932

70,000 Witnesses
1932 71 min 4 vues
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Mystery
You're the One
1

You're the One

Feb 19, 1941

You're the One
1941 83 min 1 vues
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
6

Mar 17, 1955
1955 min 2 vues
5

Jun 28, 1957
1957 min 2 vues
An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.
Drama