Movies: Elmer Rice
- 1942
Holiday Inn (1942)
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Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his m...
- 1931
Street Scene (1931)
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The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murd...
- 1933
Counsellor at Law (1933)
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A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past....
- 1969
The Adding Machine (1969)
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An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities....
- 1992
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)
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The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standa...
- 1948
Dream Girl (1948)
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A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has....
- 1917
On Trial (1917)
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Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife....
- 1939
On Trial (1939)
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An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified....
- 1930
Oh, Sailor, Behave! (1930)
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Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on ...
- 1924
It Is the Law (1924)
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This silent mystery is considered a lost film....
- 1922
Rent Free (1922)
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A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner....
- 1928
On Trial (1928)
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A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced....
- 1993
Kurt Weill: Street Scene (1993)
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The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of R...
- 1921
Doubling for Romeo (1921)
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Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary. .......
- 1922
For the Defense (1922)
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Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler....
- 2019
Kurt Weill: Street Scene (2019)
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The main plot of this rampant collection of scenes from the streets of the lower East Side of New York revolves around Frank and Anna Maurrant and their daughter Rose. A violent and tough character, Frank fails to see his wife’s growing despair due t...