Keyword: radio broadcast

Pontypool

7.5

2008

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A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

7

2013

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When famous DJ Alan Partridges radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

6.8

1942

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When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio Voice of Terror, the Intellegence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis.

Hell's Kitchen

8

1939

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A group of tough city kids have graduated from reform school and are assigned to a Boys Town type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant Mitchell), a crooked superintendent, assisted by Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields), an ex-racketeer on probation. Buck enjoys trying to straighten out the kids and joins with them and social workers Beth Avery (Margaret Lindsay) and Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), in getting Krispan removed from his job.

The Unsuspected

6.5

1947

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The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Bedtime for Sniffles

6.2

1940

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Christmas eve, and Sniffles is determined to stay awake to see Santa. Not an easy task.

Meet John Doe

7.7

1941

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A penniless drifter (Gary Cooper) is recruited by an ambitious columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) to impersonate a non-existent person who said hed be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

4.5

1933

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Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo, who does the \Dats all, folks!\.

Porky's Baseball Broadcast

6

1940

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Its the Giants vs. the Red Sox in the final game of the World Series, and Porkys doing play-by-play for the radio audience. The umpire is blind; the bat boy is, literally, a bat, and the catchers a fast-talking turtle. The Giants pitcher is literally a giant. And of course, as with any New York-Boston matchup, the Giants win.

Black Legion

7

1937

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A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, hes seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

7.8

1997

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Just before the live airing of a radio play, an actress decides to change the name of her character. This cascades into a battle of egos by all involved that causes continual script changes while the play is on-air live.

Brave New Jersey

5.4

2016

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A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles legendary 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U.S. was being invaded by Martians.