Harold Buchman

Harold Buchman

Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Writer), 1 (Creator)

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    Shall We Dance
    Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows... (imdb)
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    The Lawyer
    Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death. (imdb)
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    Doll Face
    Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
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    The Sleeping Tiger
    Complications ensue when a wealthy doctor brings a would-be thief home with him.
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    Cynthia
    Sickly girl finds an outlet in music. (imdb)
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    Operation Snafu
    When he is pulled up in court for selling stuff on the street, Horace Pope says he was only doing it while waiting to enlist. The judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up. Pope makes friends with the easy going but loyal Pedlar Pascoe, who happily goes along with all of his scams in an effort to avoid the front lines and make a bit on the side. However, his scams cause trouble where he goes and there are only so many places he can go before France beckons. (imdb)
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    A Matter of WHO
    Crime comedy melodrama about British health officer and American oil man who prevent a dangerous smallpox epidemic.
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    The Perfect Snob
    Her mother (Greenwood) wants her to find wealth; her father (Ruggles) tells her to seek love. She (Bari) finds both in Hawaiian hunk (Wilde). (imdb)
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    The Devil Is Driving
    In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens (Henry Kolker). (imdb)
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    A Gentleman at Heart
    Cesar Romero plays an outwardly tough bookie with the proverbial golden heart. Romero falls in love with Carole Landis, an art shop proprietor who introduces her raffish romeo into the world of fine art. Utilizing his gambling skills, he amasses an impressive collection of valuable paintings, only to discover that there are just as many crooks and phonies in the art world as there are at the race track. (allrovi.com)
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    It Happened in Flatbush
    It Happened in Flatbush is a likable baseball comedy inspired by the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers' pennant win. Lloyd Nolan portrays an ace ballplayer who was disgraced while still in college and is only able to secure work as a team manager. He takes charge of an unnamed Brooklyn team and whips in into a World Series contender. (allrovi.com)
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    Trapped by Television
    An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention. (imdb)
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    Come Closer, Folks
    A fast-talking Pitchman,Jim Keene, working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him. (imdb)
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    Jennie
    A brassy young lady, concerned with the outmoded ways in which her German-immigrant father runs his shoe-cobbling business, convinces his staff to go on strike. They do just that, but when their boss pretends to have a heart attack, the situation gets out of hand. (imdb)
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    Don\
    In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that all house games be on the up-and-up. Trouble ensues when his wife demands he shut down the house to protect the good name of their newborn baby. He gives in and sells the house. Unfortunately he is soon conned out of his cash by an investment swindler. (allmovie.com)
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    Romance of the Rio Grande
    When an old rancher (Cordoba)'s grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch. (imdb)
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    Paris After Dark
    Members of the French underground resistance, live their "normal" lives during the day, and fight the occupying Nazis in the war-torn Paris after dark. Some will end their lives fighting, and some will find purpose in life once again.
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    The Naked Earth
    Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
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    Take It or Leave It
    Eddie Collins (Ryan) needs $1,000 to pay his wife's obstetrician. He is selected as a contestant on a special edition of Take It or Leave It, a long-running quiz show that later evolved into The $64,000 Question, in which the top prize is increased from its then-top prize of $64 to $1,000.
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    Blackmailer
    An inept Police Inspector Killian (Paul Hurst) is assigned to investigate a blackmail case in which an equally inept amateur detective, Peter Corwin (William Gargan) is also working on the case that involves a butler, Nelson (Wyrley Birch) out to avenge his daughter's death. Joan Rankin (Florence Rice) supplies the romance.
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    Dixie Dugan
    Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation of Joseph P. McEvoy's popular comic strip Dixie Dugan. Swept up in the war effort, Dixie gets a job as secretary to government official Roger Hudson (James Ellison). Though Roger pursues her romantically, Dixie remains faithful to her defense-plant-worker fiancee Matt Hogan (Eddie Foy Jr. (allmovie.com)
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    North of Shanghai
    American reporters Helen Warnet and Jed Howard meet on a boat to Shangai unaware that Japan had just invade China and enemy spies are everywhere.
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    Hero for a Day
    When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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    Outside These Walls
    Dan Sparling (;Michael Whalen (I)')is a brilliant, crusading journalist, but also a man with a prison record, earned after he had embezzled to meet the needs of an extravagant wife. He plunges into the fury of a political campaign, with the opposing newspaper being owned by Margaret Bronson (Dolores Costello').
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    Snafu
    A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home. A complicated period of adjustment follows for both the boy, who is no longer a boy even at age 15, and his family.
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