Berton Churchill — Actor (19)
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Five Minutes from the Station (1930) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Five Minutes from the Station
director: Arthur Hurley actor: Lynne Overman / Sylvia Sidney …
When Bert Adams brings his boss, Mr. Mason, home for dinner, he and his wife Carrie hope Mason will take the opportunity to announce that Bert will be promoted to fill a new vacancy in the company's shipping department. But Mr. Mason has other plans for that vacancy, and for Bert.
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Vagabond Lady (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vagabond Lady
director: Sam Taylor actor: Robert Young / Evelyn Venable …
other title: Mi novia está a bordo / Une femme à bord …
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Two Seconds (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Two Seconds
director: 梅尔文·勒罗伊 actor: Edward G. Robinson / Vivienne Osborne …
other title: Zwei Sekunden / Dos segundos …
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
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Air Eagles (1931) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Air Eagles
director: Phil Whitman actor: Lloyd Hughes / Bill Ramsey …
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
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Sing Sing Nights (1934) [Movie] IMDb Douban
Sing Sing Nights
director: 刘易斯·D·科林斯 actor: Conway Tearle / Ferdinand Gottschalk …
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
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The Way of All Flesh (1940) [Movie]
The Way of All Flesh
director: Louis King actor: Akim Tamiroff / Gladys George …
other title: Su único pecado
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Tarnished Lady (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Tarnished Lady
director: George Cukor actor: Tallulah Bankhead / Clive Brook …
other title: 孽种 / 孽种(港) …
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.