Pat West

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• Movie7.4

  ComedyRomance

  Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

  His Girl Friday

  1940 · 973 votes

• Movie7.2

  WarDrama

  Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.

  Sergeant York

  1941 · 239 votes

• Movie7.5

  ComedyRomance

  Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

  You Can't Take It with You

  1938 · 465 votes

• Movie7.5

  AdventureRomance

  A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

  To Have and Have Not

  1945 · 588 votes

• Movie7.3

  RomanceAdventure

  A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

  Only Angels Have Wings

  1939 · 287 votes

• Movie7.0

  CrimeThriller

  Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

  This Gun for Hire

  1942 · 197 votes

• Movie7.3

  ComedyRomance

  When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

  Libeled Lady

  1936 · 136 votes

• Movie7.3

  ComedyRomance

  It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

  The Lady Eve

  1941 · 412 votes

• Movie5.8

  HorrorScience Fiction

  The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

  Invisible Agent

  1942 · 64 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyRomance

  Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

  My Favorite Wife

  1940 · 176 votes

• Movie7.1

  AdventureHistory

  King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.

  If I Were King

  1938 · 14 votes

• Movie5.4

  WesternDrama

  Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.

  The Outlaw

  1943 · 111 votes

• Movie7.4

  ComedyRomance

  A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

  Ball of Fire

  1941 · 252 votes

• Movie6.5

  ActionDrama

  The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

  Air Force

  1943 · 65 votes

• Movie6.7

  AdventureComedy

  While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

  Road to Utopia

  1946 · 49 votes

• Movie6.5

  MusicRomance

  Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

  Presenting Lily Mars

  1943 · 13 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyMusic

  Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

  Babes in Arms

  1939 · 46 votes

• Movie7.3

  MusicRomance

  Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.

  The Fleet's In

  1942 · 3 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

  The Bank Dick

  1940 · 132 votes

• Movie5.4

  Drama

  Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

  Men with Wings

  1938 · 5 votes

• Movie5.3

  Comedy

  Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham.

  The Farmer's Daughter

  1940 · 6 votes

• Movie6.8

  DramaCrime

  Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)

  Prison Farm

  1938 · 4 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyRomance

  Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

  Slightly Dangerous

  1943 · 8 votes

• Movie6.7

  Drama

  Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

  Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

  1936 · 8 votes