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Benjamin Stoloff

Born October 6, 1895 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died September 8, 1960 · aged 64

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin "Ben" Stoloff (October 6, 1895 – September 8, 1960) was an American film director and producer. He began his career as a short film comedy director and gradually moved into feature film directing and production later in his career. Stoloff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in Hollywood, California.

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Pawnshop PoliticsPawnshop Politics · 1926
Pawnshop Politics
1926
MovieComedy
After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty Dolan, whose father is running for alderman, and it is love at first sight. A rival candidate makes trouble and plants a bomb in the shop but Abie turns the tables on him. Election day finds Dolan's followers too lazy to vote. Abie stirs them up by offering to lick them and then running to the polling place with the mob at his heels. Dolan wins and so does Abie.
Silver ValleySilver Valley · 1927
Silver Valley
9.01927
MovieActionAdventure
Fired for crashing his aeroplane into his employer's ranch, Tom Mix is elected sheriff in a town with, as a title stated, "a high mortality rate among sheriffs." Mix, of course, prevails against almost impossible odds, at one point cornering a gang of cutthroats holding leading lady Dorothy Dwan captive in the crater of a volcano about to erupt.
Railroaded!Railroaded! · 1947
Railroaded!
6.71947
MovieThrillerDrama
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
Super-SleuthSuper-Sleuth · 1937
Super-Sleuth
5.61937
MovieMysteryComedy
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
GoldieGoldie · 1931
Goldie
5.61931
MovieComedy
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
The Amazing Mr. XThe Amazing Mr. X · 1948
The Amazing Mr. X
6.21948
MovieThrillerHorror
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Perfect ControlPerfect Control · 1932
Perfect Control
6.51932
MovieComedy
Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids.
Bermuda MysteryBermuda Mystery · 1944
Bermuda Mystery
8.01944
MovieMystery
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.

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Transatlantic Merry-Go-RoundTransatlantic Merry-Go-Round · 1934
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
4.61934
MovieMysteryComedy
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.

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