Oscar Apfel — Actor (18)
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Cappy Ricks Returns (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cappy Ricks Returns
director: Mack V. Wright actor: Robert McWade / Ray Walker …
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
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Bulldog Edition (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bulldog Edition
director: Charles Lamont actor: Ray Walker / Evalyn Knapp …
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mary Jane's Pa
director: William Keighley actor: Aline MacMahon / Guy Kibbee …
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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You Said a Mouthful (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Said a Mouthful
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Joe E. Brown / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Badenixe / À tour de brasses …
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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Pick-up (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pick-up
director: Marion Gering actor: Sylvia Sidney / George Raft …
other title: Pick-Up / Flucht vor dem Gestern
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
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Before Dawn (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Before Dawn
director: Irving Pichel actor: Stuart Erwin / Dorothy Wilson …
other title: Antes del amanecer
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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High Pressure (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
High Pressure
director: Mervyn LeRoy actor: William Powell / Evelyn Brent …
other title: Ein ausgefuchster Gauner
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...
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Perils of the Coast Guard (1926) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Perils of the Coast Guard
director: 奥斯卡·阿普菲尔 actor: Cullen Landis / Dorothy Dwan …
When Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris, at Point Lobos, Maine, save Natalie Aldridge from drowning, a romance blossoms much to the dislike of Carlton Aldrich, Natalie's uncle, who wishes her to marry Lonsdayle. In spite of her uncle, Natalie and Tom are married and live in a small cottage near the Coast Guard station, and Aldridge ignores them. Tom is assigned to capture the oyster pirates and does so, but the pirate leader escapes and plans to keep Tom from testifying against his men by kidnapping Natalie.
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The Bowery (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Bowery
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Wallace Beery / George Raft …
other title: El arrabal / Les Faubourgs de New York …
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.