Porter Hall

All Movies of Porter Hall

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 Year

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  6.9
  Vice Squad
  When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his...
   1953

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  Holiday for Sinners
  Three men, reared together in New Orleans, but whose paths have drifted apart, each face a crisis during the last weekend of Mardi Gras: Dr. Jason Kent must decide between accepting a chance to become famous as a research scientis...
   1952

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  8.5
  Ace in the Hole
  A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. ...
  Character: Jacob Q. Boot

   1951

• 
  7.0
  Intruder in the Dust
  In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
   1949

• 
  7.0
  Singapore
  After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...
  Character: Mr. Gerald Bellows

   1947

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  7.5
  Miracle on 34th Street
  Six year old Susan has doubts childhood's most enduring miracle Santa Clause. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas lis...
  Character: Granville Sawyer

   1947

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  Murder, He Says
  Trotter pollster Pete Marshall is trying to find a missing coworker. In a rural town he stumbles onto the roughian Fleagle family. Bert and Mert would just as soon "splatter" snoopers with their rifles. However, Ma Johns...
   1945

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  8.0
  Standing Room Only
  During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel reservations when she feels the accomodations a...
  Character: Hugo Farenhall

   1944

• 
  8.3
  Double Indemnity
  Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray). A...
  Character: Mr. Jackson

   1944

• 
  6.8
  Going My Way
  A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. There are various ups and downs in their relatio...
   1944

• 
  7.8
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldier
  Character: Justice of the Peace

   1944

• 
  6.0
  The Woman of the Town
  Bat Masterson's girl tries to get him to give up gunfighting and become a respectable journalist, but Bat has other problems - his rival is in town gunning for him.
  Character: Mayor Dog Killey

   1943

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  8.0
  Sullivan's Travels
  Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in tramp'...
   1941

• 
  7.8
  His Girl Friday
  Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day after. Walter Burns can't let that happen and frames the other man, Bruce ...
  Character: Murphy

   1940

• 
  6.5
  Arizona
  Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie...
   1940

• 
  6.9
  Dark Command
  Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas,...
  Character: Angus McCloud

   1940

• 
  6.6
  They Shall Have Music
  Young Frankie (Gene Reynolds), a victim of a squalid life in the slums, fancies himself a tough guy until hearing a performance by violinist Jascha Heifetz (as himself). Inspired by the maestro, Frankie returns to his violin, an i...
   1939

• 
  6.5
  Dangerous to Know
  Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed ...
  Character: Mayor Bradley

   1938

• 
  6.0
  True Confession
  Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evid...
   1937

• 
  7.0
  Wells Fargo
   1937

• 
  7.0
  Souls at Sea
  Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.
   1937

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  This Way Please
  A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and pl...
   1937

• 
  9.0
  Make Way For Tomorrow
  An elderly couple has lived together for 50 years but they have just lost their home to a bank. Their five children are sorry to hear that, but they don't want to get their hands too dirty helping them, so they split them, which i...
   1937

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  The Petrified Forest
  This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board after appearing in the successful stage play b...
   1936

• 
  6.0
  The General Died at Dawn
   1936

• 
  7.0
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  In 1860, having helped France solve the problem of sour wine, chemist Louis Pasteur turns to the dangers of childbirth: 20,000 Paris women were dying annually. His germ theory and recommendation that doctors wash their hands and s...
   1935

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  Murder in the Private Car
  Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson. As a child, she was kidnaped by her uncle and is the d...
   1934

• 
  6.7
  The Thin Man
  After a four year absence, one time detective Nick Charles returns to New York with his new wife Nora and their dog, Asta. Nick re-connects with many of his old cronies, several of whom are eccentric characters, to say the least. ...
   1934

• 
  6.9
  Secrets of a Secretary
  Character: Drunk

   1931