I. Stanford Jolley

I. Stanford Jolley

Born: October 23, 1900
Died: December 7, 1978
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
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Isaac Stanford Jolley (October 24, 1900 – December 7, 1978) was an American character actor of film and television, primarily in western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains. Recognized by his slight build, narrow face, and pencil-thin moustache, Jolley appeared some five hundred times on the large or small screen.

Isaac Stanford Jolley was born in a circus trailer in Elizabeth, New Jersey, while the circus owned by his father had a three-day stop there.[2] Jolley toured as a child with his father's traveling circus and worked in vaudeville. He was a student of the Edward Clark Academy Theater.

Television roles

From 1950 to 1953, Jolley first appeared on television with six castings in different role in the series, The Lone Ranger with Clayton Moore. He appeared twice in 1953 in the syndicated western series, The Range Rider. He made two appearances as Parker in Tales of the Texas Rangers, with series stars Willard Parker and Harry Lauter. Jolley guest starred as the henchman Walt, along with Clayton Moore and Darryl Hickman in the 1954 episode "Annie Gets Her Man" of the syndicated Western, Annie Oakley. He appeared as Sheriff Bascom in the 1954 episode "Black Bart" of Stories of the Century.

Jolley soon appeared multiple times on a wide range of other western series, including, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (three times), The Cisco Kid (ten), Tales of the Texas Rangers (twice), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (twice), The Roy Rogers Show (three), The Gene Autry Show (four), Sky King (four), Death Valley Days (five), 26 Men (five appearances, again with Tristram Coffin, the series star), Wanted Dead or Alive (two), Bronco (twice), Tales of Wells Fargo (twice), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (six), Maverick (six), Lawman (six), Cheyenne (seven), Rawhide (five), Wagon Train (ten), The Virginian (two), Daniel Boone (two), Laredo (two), The Big Valley (three), Bonanza (eight), and Gunsmoke (nine).

In 1960, he guest starred as the Indian named Singing Arrow in the series finale, "The Search," of the syndicated western, Pony Express, with Grant Sullivan. In 1962, he was cast as The Stranger in the episode "Quarantine" of the NBC western series, The Tall Man, starring Barry Sullivan, and Clu Gulager.

In 1965, Jolley appeared as Enos Scoggins in "The Greatest Coward on Earth" of the Chuck Connors series, Branded. He had also appeared with Connors on ABC's The Rifleman in one of the last episodes of the series in 1963 in the role of Joe Fogner in "Hostages to Fortune" (1963). He appeared four times in 1956 in archival footage on the children's western The Gabby Hayes Show.

In 1966, Jolley appeared on the show F Troop as Colonel Ferguson in the episode "Survival of the Fittest". Jolley's last Western roles were in 1976: as (1) a farmer in ABC's The Macahans, the pilot of James Arness's second western series, How the West Was Won, and (2) as a drunkard in the short-lived Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell series The Quest. CLR

Movies for I. Stanford Jolley...

Night of the Lepus
Title: Night of the Lepus
Character: Dispatcher
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Rancher Cole Hillman is fed up of rabbits plaguing his fields. Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives rise to giant rabbits that terrorise the town.
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Title: Ghost Story
Character: The Wolfman
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: TV
Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear.
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
Title: The Shakiest Gun in the West
Character: Bearded Stage Passenger (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
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The Restless Ones
Title: The Restless Ones
Character: Alvin A. Dillon
Released: December 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A reporter doing a story on a Christian pastor who ministers to troubled teens doesn't realize that his own son is getting mixed up with a disturbed young girl and that both of them are headed for trouble.
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Title: The Wild Wild West
Character: Town Doctor
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
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The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Sheriff Jones
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Old Man
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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The Haunted Palace
Title: The Haunted Palace
Character: Carmody, Coachman
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
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Terror At Black Falls
Title: Terror At Black Falls
Character: Mr. Elliott
Released: May 23, 1962
Type: Movie
A Mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and is put into prison. When he's released, he's got revenge on his mind.
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Valley of the Dragons
Title: Valley of the Dragons
Character: Patoo
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
In 1881 Algeria, an American soldier and a French aristocrat are about to have a duel over a woman when a comet hurtling past the Earth draws them into its gravitational pull. The men find themselves transported to the moon, where they discover a prehistoric civilization inhabited by reptiles and humans.
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Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Title: Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Character: Governor of Rivers (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
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13 Fighting Men
Title: 13 Fighting Men
Character: Pvt. Ebb
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightful place within the government coffers.
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Ice Palace
Title: Ice Palace
Character: Mr. Lawson
Released: January 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
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The Miracle of the Hills
Title: The Miracle of the Hills
Character: Dr. Tuttle
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.
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The Rebel Set
Title: The Rebel Set
Character: King Invader
Released: June 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
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Here Come the Jets
Title: Here Come the Jets
Character: Bartender
Released: June 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The rehabilitation of a Korean War veteran coincides with the advent of passenger jets.
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Alias Jesse James
Title: Alias Jesse James
Character: Conductor #2 (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
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Lone Texan
Title: Lone Texan
Character: Trader
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
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The Long, Hot Summer
Title: The Long, Hot Summer
Character: Houston (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Man from God's Country
Title: Man from God's Country
Character: Saunders (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. At first mistaken for a railroad agent by Beau Santee, a Sundown businessman who wants to keep the railroad away from his town, Dan is nearly killed by Santee's henchman, Mark Faber. Dan discovers that his old pal Curt works for Santee. Even after learning Dan's true identity, Santee considers him trouble and plots to get rid of him. With the help of Curt's son Stony, Dan tries to get Curt to take a stand on the right side of the law.
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Gun Battle at Monterey
Title: Gun Battle at Monterey
Character: Idwall
Released: October 27, 1957
Type: Movie
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Character: McClure
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Jerome Henley
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Gunsight Ridge
Title: Gunsight Ridge
Character: Billy Daggett
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
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The Oklahoman
Title: The Oklahoman
Character: Storekeeper
Released: May 19, 1957
Type: Movie
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
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Outlaw Queen
Title: Outlaw Queen
Character: Conway
Released: April 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.
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The Iron Sheriff
Title: The Iron Sheriff
Character: Gene Walden
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
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The Halliday Brand
Title: The Halliday Brand
Character: Gentry
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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The Young Guns
Title: The Young Guns
Character: Felix Briggs
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
After he's continually harrassed and bullied by his town's citizens, the orphaned teenage son of a notorious gunslinger takes flight and joins a gang of youthful outlaws.
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Kentucky Rifle
Title: Kentucky Rifle
Character: Jed Williams
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man escorts a wagon load of Kentucky rifles through Indian territory and must find a way to get through without losing the rifles to the Indians. Unfortunately the Indians know about it, and give the occupants an ultimatum: either the rifles or their lives.
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I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
Title: I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Henry Longtree
Released: June 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Rival horse traders clash in the Old West.
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The Proud Ones
Title: The Proud Ones
Character: Crooked Card-Player (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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Wetbacks
Title: Wetbacks
Character: Fred
Released: May 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and him with no money. Two local men hear of Jim's plight, and offer him money to smuggle a batch of illegal aliens, called Wetbacks, into the U.S. He agrees but is blackmailed into continuing to run the smuggling operation. Afraid, Jim decides to make a run for it, but someone close to him reveals themselves as a US Immigration agent and asks him to assist them in shutting down the smugglers for good.
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Backlash
Title: Backlash
Character: Pot Luck (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
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The Wild Dakotas
Title: The Wild Dakotas
Character: Tabor
Released: February 28, 1956
Type: Movie
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
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The Violent Years
Title: The Violent Years
Character: Judge Raymond Clara
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.
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Wichita
Title: Wichita
Character: John Stanton (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
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The Tilted Tenderfoot
Title: The Tilted Tenderfoot
Character: The Outlaw Leader
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Murderer (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
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Day of Triumph
Title: Day of Triumph
Character: Simon the Pharisee
Released: December 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
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White Christmas
Title: White Christmas
Character: Station Master (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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Two Guns and a Badge
Title: Two Guns and a Badge
Character: Sam Allen - Stableman
Released: September 11, 1954
Type: Movie
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
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The Forty-Niners
Title: The Forty-Niners
Character: Everett (as Stanford Jolley)
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Title: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Character: Father (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Man with the Steel Whip
Title: Man with the Steel Whip
Character: Sloane - Assayer, Ch. 12
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Saloon owner Barnet wants the Indian reservation land on which he knows there is gold, and organizes a gang, aided by some renegade Indians, to raid and terrorize close-by settlers,hoping to arouse them to drive off the Indians. Rancher Jerry Randall, accompanied by school teacher Nancy Cooper, sets out to defeat the plot. In order to win the loyalty of the innocent tribe members, Randall masquerades as a legendary friend of the Indians, El Latigo.
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The Desperado
Title: The Desperado
Character: Mr. Garner
Released: June 20, 1954
Type: Movie
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
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Tumbleweed
Title: Tumbleweed
Character: Ted
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.
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Vigilante Terror
Title: Vigilante Terror
Character: Matt Taylor
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under hood, as it were
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Title: Secret of Outlaw Flats
Character: Henchman
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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Calamity Jane
Title: Calamity Jane
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
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City of Bad Men
Title: City of Bad Men
Character: Gunslinger at Ringside
Released: September 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
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Topeka
Title: Topeka
Character: Doc Mason
Released: August 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
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Son of Belle Starr
Title: Son of Belle Starr
Character: Rocky
Released: June 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
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Rebel City
Title: Rebel City
Character: Perry
Released: May 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
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The Marksman
Title: The Marksman
Character: Marshal Bob Scott
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.
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I Beheld His Glory
Title: I Beheld His Glory
Character: Dismas
Released: March 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.
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The Raiders
Title: The Raiders
Character: Mountain Jim Ferris
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.
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Wyoming Roundup
Title: Wyoming Roundup
Character: Mayor Earl Craven
Released: November 9, 1952
Type: Movie
When newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in the middle of the range war between large ranch owner Howard and the small ranchers. Everyone thinks Howard is the culprit but Whip believes otherwise.
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Yukon Gold
Title: Yukon Gold
Character: Charlie
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but justice prevails.
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Dead Man's Trail
Title: Dead Man's Trail
Character: Silvertown Sheriff
Released: July 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown was nearing the end of his starring career when he appeared in the Monogram oater Dead Man's Trail. Brown and his youthful sidekick Jimmy Ellison come to the aid of imperiled Barbara Allen. At this point, Johnny was too long in tooth and thick around the middle to qualify as a romantic lead, hence the presence of Ellison.
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Wagons West
Title: Wagons West
Character: Slocum
Released: July 6, 1952
Type: Movie
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
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Kansas Territory
Title: Kansas Territory
Character: Slater (as Stan Jolley)
Released: May 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Elliott goes after his brother's murderer!
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Wild Stallion
Title: Wild Stallion
Character: Bill Cole
Released: April 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.
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Man from the Black Hills
Title: Man from the Black Hills
Character: Pete Ingram
Released: March 29, 1952
Type: Movie
As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.
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Leadville Gunslinger
Title: Leadville Gunslinger
Character: Cliff Saunders
Released: March 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Arriving in Leadville, Marshal Rocky Lane finds that his friend Nugget is in financial trouble. Nugget thinks there is oil on his land but the geologist says no. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rocky poses as a crook himself to infiltrate the gang, nab the ringleader and make sure justice takes the day. Harry Keller directs this B Western.
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Rodeo
Title: Rodeo
Character: Pete Adkins
Released: March 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Deputy Warren (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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Waco
Title: Waco
Character: Curly Ivers (as Stanford Jolley)
Released: February 24, 1952
Type: Movie
After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
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Fort Osage
Title: Fort Osage
Character: Sam Winfield
Released: February 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory. Clay knows that he's in for a lot of trouble because of the treaty-violating activities of white criminals Pickett and Keane. Fortunately for the hero, Pickett and Keane double-cross each other somewhere along the line, weakening their ability to foment an all-out Indian attack.
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The Gunman
Title: The Gunman
Character: Dan Forester
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.
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Westward the Women
Title: Westward the Women
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: Movie
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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Texas Lawmen
Title: Texas Lawmen
Character: Bart Morrow
Released: December 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger goes up against the Morrow outlaw gang.
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The Longhorn
Title: The Longhorn
Character: Charlie Robinson
Released: November 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A double-crossing cowboy and his gang of henchmen steal cattle, even from friends, in this classic Western.
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Cattle Queen
Title: Cattle Queen
Character: Scarface
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
After conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be empire builder Duke Drake is confronted by the girl's new tough foreman Bill Foster. In retaliation, Drake frames Bill for a stage robbery committed by his own henchmen and arranges a phony trial presided over by the saloon's bartender Judge Whipple. Queenie interrupts the "trial" with the news that the townswomen have all elected Jim Marshal. To uphold the decision, Bill has secured the release of three convicted outlaws: Blackie Malone, Bad Bill Smith, and Shotgun Thompson, two of whom join in the fight against Drake and his gang.
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Lawless Cowboys
Title: Lawless Cowboys
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the contemporary West, the film casts Wilson as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a crooked gambling ring.
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Whistling Hills
Title: Whistling Hills
Character: Chet Norman
Released: October 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown was recruited by Chet Norman, the owner of a stagecoach line, to end the heist perpetrated by a mysterious knight who plays strange notes with a hiss of money before robbing them.
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Oklahoma Justice
Title: Oklahoma Justice
Character: Sam Fleming
Released: August 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram. The lady, played by Barbara Allen, is of course called "Ma." In order to get the goods on "Ma" and her "brood," Mack Brown must masquerade as a lone bandit.
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Bonanza Town
Title: Bonanza Town
Character: Borger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Using marked bills, Steve is looking for the supposedly dead Henry Hardison. Coming to Bonanza Town he gets a job with the town boss Crag Bozeman and gets paid with marked bills. He suspects Hardison is Boseman's boss and he is right as Hardison and his men are now planning to get rid of both him and the Durango kid.
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Lost Planet Airmen
Title: Lost Planet Airmen
Character: Prof. Bryant
Released: July 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".
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Nevada Badmen
Title: Nevada Badmen
Character: Old Man Waller
Released: May 27, 1951
Type: Movie
The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller, a greedy express agent and Banker Jensen, who conspire to separate Bob Bannon from the gold found on his property. Bob's brother Jim and his two pals Whip Wilson and Texas arrive too late to save Bob from the bad guys. Hoping to flush out the killer, Whip arranges to auction off the property.
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Don Daredevil Rides Again
Title: Don Daredevil Rides Again
Character: Sheriff [Chs. 1, 4, 10]
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Stock-footage from Republic Pictures' earlier Zorro serials was served up once again in this 12 chapter cliffhanger, this time without the financially strapped studio having to credit Zorro creator Johnston McCulley or pay any royalties. Zorro simply became "Don Daredevil" (Ken Curtis), a foppish Easterner by day turned masked avenger by night. Like his not too distant relative, Don wore his disguise in order to battle nasty Roy Barcroft who, under a forged Spanish land grant, attempts to take over the surrounding ranch land.
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Canyon Raiders
Title: Canyon Raiders
Character: Sam Wellman
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, CA. A government agent, Wilson arrives in the near ghost town of Tunis, where his friend is in trouble with a couple of horse thieves. The latter are also terrorizing a homesteader, Texas Milburn, and his wife, Ruth, and when the female sheriff Alice Long interferes, she finds herself taken hostage.
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Title: The Living Christ
Character: Dismas the Good Thief
Released: January 7, 1951
Type: TV
The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.
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California Passage
Title: California Passage
Character: Ed (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
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Pirates of the High Seas
Title: Pirates of the High Seas
Character: Turner - Trader [Ch.1]
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
For decades, pirates roamed the seas, searching for booty to plunder and coastal villages to terrorize. Who were these men and women? As you dig beneath the myth of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and other legendary warriors of the waters in this docudrama, you'll discover who they were and what motivated them to wreak havoc wherever they sailed. Includes the movie Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Willard Parker
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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Desperadoes of the West
Title: Desperadoes of the West
Character: J.B. 'Dude' Dawson
Released: August 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.
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The Return of Jesse James
Title: The Return of Jesse James
Character: Commissioner Morton
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
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Trigger, Jr.
Title: Trigger, Jr.
Character: Doc Brown
Released: June 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Snake Willens
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Title: Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Character: Pecos
Released: May 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Card Player
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Comanche Territory
Title: Comanche Territory
Character: Newcomer at Shindig (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
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Hostile Country
Title: Hostile Country
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.
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The Baron of Arizona
Title: The Baron of Arizona
Character: Mr. Richardson
Released: March 4, 1950
Type: Movie
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: Conventioneer (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Title: Sands of Iwo Jima
Character: Forrestal (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Title: Mary Ryan, Detective
Character: Mike, the Chauffeur
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
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Bandit King of Texas
Title: Bandit King of Texas
Character: Land Agent Willets
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the settlers can claim their land, they are being killed by McCabe's gang. When Rocky comes to Elko to find his friend Jim, he winds up in Jail on a charge of stealing money from the new Marshal. The only person in town that is on his side is Nugget, but there is little that he can do by himself. When Rocky escapes from the jail with another prisoner and the Marshal is shot, he has to find who is behind his problems and what has happened to Jim and Emily.
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Roll, Thunder, Roll!
Title: Roll, Thunder, Roll!
Character: El Conejo
Released: August 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little Beaver and the Duchess, here played by "Little Brown Jug" and Marin Sais. This time, Ryder tries to prove that a series of cattle raids and ranch fires were not the handiwork of masked Mexican do-gooder El Conejo.
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Haunted Trails
Title: Haunted Trails
Character: Joe Rankin
Released: August 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank robbers who murdered his brother.
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The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Character: Guard at Diamond Exhibit
Released: August 11, 1949
Type: Movie
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
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Trouble At Melody Mesa
Title: Trouble At Melody Mesa
Character: Mark Simmons
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jimmy's father, a rancher, died in suspicious circumstances. To make things worse, Jimmy's disreputable uncle has a plot to take over the ranch. Jimmy turns to his friend Brad, the Marshal, for help.
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King of the Rocket Men
Title: King of the Rocket Men
Character: Prof. Bryant
Released: June 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.
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Desert Vigilante
Title: Desert Vigilante
Character: Ace (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Silver is being smuggled across the border and the secret passage goes through Betty Long's basement. When Steve arrives he gets tangled up with the rustlers who are now going to have the Durango Kid to contend with.
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Son of Billy the Kid
Title: Son of Billy the Kid
Character: Matt Fergus
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Lash helps a reformed Billy the Kid protect his bank from bandits.
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Rimfire
Title: Rimfire
Character: Toad Tyler
Released: March 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An undercover Army captain links missing gold and murder to a gambler's ghost.
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Ghost of Zorro
Title: Ghost of Zorro
Character: Paul Hobson - Ch. 6, 7
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
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Gun Law Justice
Title: Gun Law Justice
Character: Duke Corliss
Released: March 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely befriends Hank Carrdigan, a former outlaw who has served his sentence and wants to go straight. Jimmy, after clearing Hank of a wrongful shooting charge, helps him get a job as an express messenger. Hank drives off some bandits in an attempted hold-up, but recognizes his son Tom as one of the bandits. A later robbery is blamed on Hank but Jimmy and his sidekick Cannonball Taylor bring in the real culprits and clear Hank's name.
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Whiplash
Title: Whiplash
Character: Prospective Tenant
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
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Gunning for Justice
Title: Gunning for Justice
Character: Blake
Released: November 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not succeed and justice prevails.
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Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Title: Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Character: Ward [Chs. 9-10]
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who killed her father are trying to drive her out of the mine so they can take it over.
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Congo Bill
Title: Congo Bill
Character: Bernie MacGraw
Released: October 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.
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The Fighting Ranger
Title: The Fighting Ranger
Character: Pop Sinclair
Released: August 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger and his partner gallop after a band of desperadoes.
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Title: Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
Character: Guard
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
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Oklahoma Blues
Title: Oklahoma Blues
Character: Beasley
Released: March 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy named Jimmy ends up posing as an outlaw called "the Melody Kid" after his big-mouthed friend Cannonball spreads tall tales.
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Check Your Guns
Title: Check Your Guns
Character: Brad Taggert
Released: January 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
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Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
Title: Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
Character: Prof. J.P. Belanco[Ch. 2-4, 7, 9-12]
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Crooks discover a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border but the treasure is hidden somewhere on land. In their efforts to find the hidden treasure they resort to murder and sabotage to stop the construction of the Alcan highway which will bring homesteaders to the area. Sergeant Royal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police battles through 12 episodes to find the crooks and to learn the identity of their mysterious leader known only as 'The Boss'.
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The Black Widow
Title: The Black Widow
Character: Dr. Z.V. Jaffa
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
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Faith of Jairus
Title: Faith of Jairus
Character: Pharisee
Released: July 10, 1947
Type: Movie
This is the Loyola Films version of Cathedral Films original version of "The Story of Jairus' Daughter."
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Land of the Lawless
Title: Land of the Lawless
Character: Cherokee Kid
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty dealings in the town of Medicine Flats, Johnny learns that Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre), the owner of the Golden Spur Saloon, has been waging a war against local prospectors, one of whom is found murdered. Not appreciating Johnny's interference, Kate has her henchman Cameo (Tristram Coffin) take a shot at him and when that fails, hires a notorious gunslinger, the Cherokee Kid (I. Stanford Jolley).
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Wild Country
Title: Wild Country
Character: Rip Caxton
Released: January 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.
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Silver Range
Title: Silver Range
Character: Sheriff Bill Armstrong
Released: November 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram, which co-stars perennial old-timer Raymond Hatton as a retired U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a rancher. As the two old friends soon learn, a gang of smugglers headed by the town's banker (Frank LaRue) needs the use of the Flying Arrow Ranch for their nefarious purposes.
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North of the Border
Title: North of the Border
Character: Ivy Jenkins
Released: November 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Rancher "Utah" Neyes crosses the border into Canada to meet his partner, only to find that the latter has been murdered by a gang led by "Nails" Nelson. "Utah", with the aid of RCMP Jack Craig and fur-trapper Ivy Jenkins, manages to clear his own name of suspicion and also break up Nelson's fur-stealing and smuggling racket.
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The Crimson Ghost
Title: The Crimson Ghost
Character: Dr. Blackton [Ch. 11]
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.
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'Neath Canadian Skies
Title: 'Neath Canadian Skies
Character: Haley
Released: October 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.
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Daughter of Don Q
Title: Daughter of Don Q
Character: Lippy Monroe (Thug) [Ch. 5]
Released: June 27, 1946
Type: Movie
When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to the heirs of Don Quantero, he employs Mel Donovan and his killer henchmen to murder them all. That will leave Manning as the sole heir to millions. However, Delores Quantero tumbles to this plot and enlists the aide of two-fisted reporter, Cliff Roberts to save all her relatives
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Two-Fisted Stranger
Title: Two-Fisted Stranger
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sheriff has been killed. He doesn't last long and is fired for incompetence. But he realizes Brady is pulling off a swindle. Having found the proper soil, Brady has salted it with cheap diamonds, gotten Smiley to accidently find them, and is now taking money from eager investors and planning to flee with it.
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Terrors on Horseback
Title: Terrors on Horseback
Character: Grant Barlow
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up. Billy and Fuzzy quickly learn that the culprit, who not only killed all the passengers but also absconded with $40,000, may be holed up in lawless Pecos City.
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Swing, Cowboy, Swing
Title: Swing, Cowboy, Swing
Character: James Beeton
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
An obscure entry in the musical Western cycle, Swing, Cowboy, Swing was produced by and starred country & western bandleader Cal Shrum. Shrum and his band, the Rhythm Rangers, are warned away from playing a theater in Big Bend by Cal's brother, Walt Shrum and his Colorado Hillbillies. Ignoring the warning, the Rhythm Rangers arrive at the theater only to be shot at by a masked stranger. With the help of stranded vaudeville performer Max "Alibi" Terhune and his dummy Elmer, Cal manages to catch the mystery shooter who turns out to be Frank Lawson (Frank Ellis). The film apparently did not generate enough interest for a series, but was re-released by Astor Pictures in 1949 under the title Bad Man From Big Bend.
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Ambush Trail
Title: Ambush Trail
Character: Hatch Bolton
Released: February 17, 1946
Type: Movie
One of four western films made for PRC by bantam-weight Bob Steele, Ambush Trail stars Steele as cowpoke Curley Thompson. The villain of the piece intends to bankrupt all the local ranchers and grab up the surrounding property for himself. But with Curley involved, the bad guy and his minions don't have a chance. The screenplay, by D. W. Griffith alumnus Elmer Clifton, is a medley of western cliches, pausing every so often for a first-rate action sequence. Perennial sagebrush sidekick Sid Saylor provides negligible comedy relief.
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Six Gun Man
Title: Six Gun Man
Character: Matt Haley
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattle for 50 cents on the dollar, they are all stolen. U.S. Marshal Stormy has been sent to end this reign of terror and to find the stolen cattle. He starts with a patrol of cattleman that blast every attempt of the outlaws to steal the herd.
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Lightning Raiders
Title: Lightning Raiders
Character: Kane
Released: January 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A cowboy and his sidekick track mail thieves to a hide-out.
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Navajo Kid
Title: Navajo Kid
Character: Honest John Grogan
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The Navajo Kid goes in search of the villains who murdered his foster-father and stole both ring and watch. The trail leads straight to Canyon City, Texas, and smooth cardsharp Honest John Grogan, who is in possession of both the stolen items. But Grogan has an ironclad alibi for the time of the murder, an alibi confirmed by none other than Sheriff Roy Landon.
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Prairie Rustlers
Title: Prairie Rustlers
Character: Matt
Released: November 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.
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Fighting Bill Carson
Title: Fighting Bill Carson
Character: Clay Allison
Released: October 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Fuzzy and Billy discover a woman they rescued during a stagecoach holdup is actually a member of the holdup gang.
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Flaming Bullets
Title: Flaming Bullets
Character: Sid Tolliver
Released: October 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.
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Jungle Raiders
Title: Jungle Raiders
Character: Brent
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Greedy traders have kidnapped a researcher, hoping he will reveal the location of a treasure in a hidden village. Family and friends of the researcher come looking for him. Adventure ensues.
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Frontier Fugitives
Title: Frontier Fugitives
Character: Frank Sneed
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their location. The Texas Rangers are on the job and to get more information, they have Panhandle pose as an Indian chief.
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Stagecoach Outlaws
Title: Stagecoach Outlaws
Character: Steve Kirby
Released: August 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the part. He and Bill plan to round up the gang but Fuzzy is in trouble when the real Brawley shows up to expose the hoax.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Mike Hanlin
Released: July 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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Gangster's Den
Title: Gangster's Den
Character: Horace Black
Released: June 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Fuzzy purchases a saloon with a large sack of gold from the mine he owns with his partner Billy. When a crooked lawyer uses underhanded methods to try taking over the saloon, Billy works to bring the lawyer and his no-good gang to justice.
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Springtime in Texas
Title: Springtime in Texas
Character: Marshal Set Rawlins
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Pete Grant controls the town of Pecos and it's Mayor and Marshal. When Jimmy, Denny, and Lasses arrive they soon find themselves in trouble. Already suspected of murder, Jimmy and Denny catch two of the three men that rob the Express Office only to find themselves framed for the robbery. Posing as a woman, Lasses breaks them out and they head after the third man who is the one that can clear them.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Rolf Brot, alias Ralph Brett
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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Trouble Chasers
Title: Trouble Chasers
Character: Lefty Reed
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
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The Power of the Whistler
Title: The Power of the Whistler
Character: Motorist
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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Crime, Inc.
Title: Crime, Inc.
Character: Mobster (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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The Whispering Skull
Title: The Whispering Skull
Character: Duke Walters
Released: December 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Haines and Dave Wyatt track a killer known as the Whispering Skull. In the wake of the Skull's slaughter, a band of thieves takes advantage of the fear he's brought to town.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Jeff (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Crazy Knights
Title: Crazy Knights
Character: Crook (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
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Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Title: Cyclone Prairie Rangers
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1944
Type: Movie
It's World War 2 and saboteurs are out to destroy the ranchers food crop. Steve Travis and sidekick Cannonball have been called in to investigate. Avoiding the attempts on his life by the gang, Steve uses a pair of eyeglasses to discover their leader, a supposedly deaf mute shoe repairman.
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Gangsters of the Frontier
Title: Gangsters of the Frontier
Character: Bart Kern
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to work for them in the gold mines. Dave and Tex then organize the ranchers into the Territorial Rangers. After blowing up the mines to keep the gang from getting the gold, they are ready for the showdown between the two sides. Written by Maurice VanAuken
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Brand of the Devil
Title: Brand of the Devil
Character: Jack Varno
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.
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Call of the Jungle
Title: Call of the Jungle
Character: Carlton
Released: July 29, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing sacred jewels.
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The Desert Hawk
Title: The Desert Hawk
Character: Saladin
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan enlists the aid of the chief Chamberlain, Faud and they send several henchmen into the royal palace, who then knock Kasim unconscious. Faud and Hassan dispatch a couple of different hirelings to take Kasim into another part of the town and murder him.Kasin comes to and gets away, but has been wounded. Omar, a beggar, takes Kasim to his home and nurses him back to health. But, it takes a few weeks for Kasin to get healthy and, by that time, Hassan has a firm grip on the duties of a Caliph. In a storeroom, Kasim finds a coat of mail with a great hawk emblazoned across the chest and promptly decides this is the costume he will wear while fighting to get his old job back. Meanwhile, the Emir of Telif shows up with his daughter, Princess Azala, with the intent of marrying her off to the local Caliph.
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Title: Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Character: Gannet
Released: May 20, 1944
Type: Movie
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
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Shake Hands with Murder
Title: Shake Hands with Murder
Character: Mr. Haskins
Released: April 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the body of the embezzler's late business partner pop up doesn't help matters.
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Oklahoma Raiders
Title: Oklahoma Raiders
Character: Henchman Higgins
Released: March 17, 1944
Type: Movie
In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.
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Outlaw Roundup
Title: Outlaw Roundup
Character: Red Hayden
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden believes him until the real Spade turns up and all hell breaks loose.
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: Parsons
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Watson (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Charles Martin (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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The Return of the Rangers
Title: The Return of the Rangers
Character: Don Bolton
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
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The Underdog
Title: The Underdog
Character: Friendly Soldier (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
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Trail of Terror
Title: Trail of Terror
Character: Hank
Released: September 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers.
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Blazing Frontier
Title: Blazing Frontier
Character: Luther Sharp
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Brett
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Wolves of the Range
Title: Wolves of the Range
Character: Harry Dorn
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Dorn is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady from helping them. When his man Hammond kills Brady, there is a run on the bank. When Rocky volunteers to ride to the next town for money, he is ambushed by Dorn's men, loses his memory, and is jailed for supposedly stealing the money.
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Frontier Law
Title: Frontier Law
Character: Weasel
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to restore the reputation of a friend wrongly accused of murder.
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The Black Raven
Title: The Black Raven
Character: Whitey Cole
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
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Death Rides the Plains
Title: Death Rides the Plains
Character: Rogan
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A couple of crooks have repeatedly sold the Circle C Ranch to unsuspecting buyers, whom they summarily rob and kill before signing the papers. Enter Fuzzy Jones, whose cousin Luke was one of the unlucky would-be ranchers, and Rocky Cameron who goes undercover as a fellow outlaw to catch the murderers.
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Wild Horse Stampede
Title: Wild Horse Stampede
Character: Commissioner Brent
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians.
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Corregidor
Title: Corregidor
Character: Agitated Soldier at Barricade
Released: March 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Title: Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Character: Henchman Horne
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
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The Kid Rides Again
Title: The Kid Rides Again
Character: Mort Slade
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
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The Rangers Take Over
Title: The Rangers Take Over
Character: Rance Blair
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Ed - Henchman
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Title: Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Character: Gil Harkness
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Harkness controls Boulder Pass and his men are overcharging the ranches for its usage. When Tom Cameron steps in to rob the tollgate keepers and return the money to the ranchers, he gets caught.
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Border Roundup
Title: Border Roundup
Character: Masters
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.
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Prairie Pals
Title: Prairie Pals
Character: Ace Shannon
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Two deputies go undercover to save a scientist from his evil kidnappers.
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Arizona Round-Up
Title: Arizona Round-Up
Character: Ed Spincer
Released: June 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the government remount station.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Pierre
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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Boot Hill Bandits
Title: Boot Hill Bandits
Character: The Mesquite Kid
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.
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House of Errors
Title: House of Errors
Character: Policeman
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: The Dragon
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Road to Happiness
Title: Road to Happiness
Character: Radio Actor (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
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Gentleman from Dixie
Title: Gentleman from Dixie
Character: Kirkland
Released: September 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Stageline Employee
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Desperate Cargo
Title: Desperate Cargo
Character: Carter
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
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Criminals Within
Title: Criminals Within
Character: Carl Flegler
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: Pedestrian Finding Note
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Sign of the Wolf
Title: Sign of the Wolf
Character: Dog Show Announcer
Released: March 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Emergency Landing
Title: Emergency Landing
Character: Karl
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Blowtorch Man
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Title: The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Character: Jingler
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.
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Rollin' Home to Texas
Title: Rollin' Home to Texas
Character: Red
Released: December 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Teamster (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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The Ape
Title: The Ape
Character: Ape Trainer
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Queen of the Yukon
Title: Queen of the Yukon
Character: Miner
Released: August 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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Son of the Navy
Title: Son of the Navy
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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Midnight Limited
Title: Midnight Limited
Character: Frenchie
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
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Chasing Trouble
Title: Chasing Trouble
Character: Bresloff
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Soapy
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: Spectator Outside Whitehall Palace (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Bill
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Palisser Hotel Clerk
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Cantina Barfly
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Charades-Player
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Restaurant Waiter-Henchman
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Kentucky Derby Patron
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Man on Sidewalk (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Court Clerk
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Thug
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Maid's Night Out
Title: Maid's Night Out
Character: Rollercoaster Rider (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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A Bride for Henry
Title: A Bride for Henry
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1937
Type: Movie
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
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Atlantic Flight
Title: Atlantic Flight
Character: Aviation Crew
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film. In "Atlantic Flight" he's top-billed as a pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission to transport medicine to an ailing friend. Monogram.
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Vogues of 1938
Title: Vogues of 1938
Character: Waiter at Spring Show
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Boxing Ringside Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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The Bold Caballero
Title: The Bold Caballero
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.