Charles R. Moore
Oyuncu · 1893 – 1947 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Charles R. Moore (April 23, 1893, Chicago, Illinois - July 20, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an African-American actor who appeared in over 100 films in his acting career, and was sometimes credited as Charles Moore or Charlie Moore Moore played small parts such as servants, bootblacks, elevator operators, menial laborers, and, especially, railroad porters and Red Caps. Film buffs may remember him in Meet John Doe where he played the City Hall janitor trying to smoke a cigar while washing the floor on the Christmas Eve that John Doe has threatened to jump off the building. Moore was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six of Sturges' films. In Sullivan's Travels, Moore had a memorable moment as the chef who is propelled headfirst through the roof of the land yacht during the chase scene. Moore was also a dancer, but that skill was not often called for in his film appearances.
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Film7.8KomediDramWashington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?
Film7.3RomantikMaceraYolculuk edeceği geminin saatler sonra kalkacağını öğrenen hareketli ve heyecanlı bir mizaca sahip olan Bonnie (Jean Arthur), zamanını, Güney Amerika’nın İngilizce konuşulan tek barında, Geoff Carter (Cary Grant)’ın yerinde geçirmeye karar verir. Küçük çapta bir posta uçağı hava alanına sahip olan ve aynı zamanda alanın işletmeciliğini de yapan Geoff, kuralcı ve katı yapısı yüzünden o gece bir pilotun ölümüne sebep olur.Olumsuz hava koşullarına aldırmadan uçuş izni veren Geoff, pilotun ölümünden etkilenen genç kadına, bunun bir iş kazası olduğunu anlatır. Patron Geoff’un vurdumduymaz tavırlarına isyan eden Bonnie, gece, genç adamla muhabbet etme fırsatı yakalar ve o an Geoff’a aşık olur.
Film7.0SuçGerilimSadistic 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
Film6.9RomantikFantastikA 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
Film7.4KomediRomantikJohn Sullivan (Joel McCrea) hafif eğlencelik filmlerin unutulmaz yönetmeni iken artık çizgi değiştirmeye karar vermiş ve yoksul insanların, ezilmiş kişilerin sorunlarını anlatmaya heveslenmiştir. Ancak yine de ilk denemesindeki sonuç kendisini tatmin etmez. Fakir ve aç insanların sorunlarını yeterince anlayamadığını düşünmektedir. Bunu nasıl halledeceğini düşünürken çözümü bulur: fakir insanları anlamak için onlardan biri olması gerekmektedir. Sullivan, tüm servetini bir süreliğine bırakır ve gerçek bir fakir gibi yaşamak için cebinde beş parası olmadan yollara düşer. Acaba elinde hiçbir şey olmadan yaşamayı becerebilecek midir?
Film7.5DramRegina (Bette Davis), paraya olduğundan fazla değer veren bir kadındır. Soylu, güneyli bir ailenin bireyi olan Regina, iki erkek kardeşi ile birlikte bir fabrika kurmak istemektedir. Bu iş için kardeşlerinin parası olmasına rağmen Regina kocasına muhtaçtır. Karısının tam tersi bir insan olan Horace (Herbert Marshall) ise bu işe para yatırmak istemez. Bunun üzerine Regina, zaten kalp hastası olan kocasının ölümünü beklemeye başlar, hatta ölümüne biraz da yardımcı olur.
Film7.0KomediRomantikGerry ve Tom Jeffers evlilik hayatını zor bulmaktadır. Tom bir mimardır ve geçinmeleri giderek zorlaşmaktadır. Yaşadıkları daireden atılacakları sırada Gerry zengin bir iş adamıyla tanışır. İş adamı Gerrye hayata yeniden başlaması için 700 dolar verir ama Tom bu hikayeye inanmaz ve çift kavga eder. Gerry evliliklerinin bittiğine karar verir ve hızlı bir şekilde boşanabilmek için Palm Beache gider. Tomun ise onu durdurmak için planları vardır.
Film6.3KomediRomantikKit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Without Reservations
1946 · 21 votes
Film7.0SuçDramThe friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Manhattan Melodrama
1934 · 81 votes
Film5.8KorkuKont Alucard, Dark Oaks adlı bir plantasyonu işleten zengin Caldwell klanından Katherine Caldwell ile tanıştıktan sonra Budapeşte'den Güney'in bataklıklarına doğru yolunu bulur. Katherine, gizli konulara takıntılıdır. Bu doğaüstü dünyada ona, adını tersten yazma zahmetine girmeyen Kont Alucard'dan daha iyi kim rehberlik edebilir? Tabii ki, eski bir aile dostu olan kurnaz Dr. Brewster dışında. Gizli ilimler uzmanı Profesör Lazlo'ya, bu "Alucard" ve etkilediği kadınla savaşmada katılacaktır. Yoksa Katherine onu etkilemiş midir? Bu arada, Katherine'in nişanlısı Frank Stanley, Katherine'i yanlışlıkla vurarak öldürdüğünde cesaretinin ve akıl sağlığının ciddi şekilde sınandığını görecektir, ancak onun yaşamaya devam ettiğini görecektir.
Film6.4KomediTwenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947 · 33 votes
Film7.1KomediSavaşHaving been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · 78 votes
Film6.1DramRomantikDuke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended.
36 Hours to Kill
1936 · 6 votes
Film6.9KomediMüzikAfter retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Start Cheering
1938 · 8 votes
Film6.5DramRomantikA safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals". He then flees from killers with a San Francisco fisherman's fiancee.
He Was Her Man
1934 · 10 votes
Film5.8KomediRomantikDanny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Second Chorus
1941 · 40 votes
Film7.0RomantikEddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Two Girls on Broadway
1940 · 6 votes
Film5.0MüzikKomediA young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Dixie
1943 · 2 votes
Film6.2SuçDramMa Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Queen of the Mob
1940 · 5 votes
Film6.9KomediTold in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
The Great McGinty
1940 · 80 votes
Film7.0KomediRomantikAn office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Christmas in July
1940 · 91 votes
Film5.4DramRomantikSongwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Tin Pan Alley
1940 · 11 votes
Film5.8KomediSuçA shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
So You Won't Talk?
1940 · 4 votes
Film4.2KomediRomantikA WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Suddenly It's Spring
1947 · 8 votes