Kenneth MacDonald

Kenneth MacDonald

Born: September 8, 1901
Died: May 5, 1972
in Portland, Indiana, USA

Movies for Kenneth MacDonald...

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Title: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1968
Type: Movie
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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40 Guns to Apache Pass
Title: 40 Guns to Apache Pass
Character: Harry Malone
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers
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Fantastic Voyage
Title: Fantastic Voyage
Character: Henry - Heart Monitoring (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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The Errand Boy
Title: The Errand Boy
Character: Mr. Fumble
Released: November 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
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The Ladies Man
Title: The Ladies Man
Character: Papa Heebert (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
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Gunfighters of Abilene
Title: Gunfighters of Abilene
Character: Harker
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.
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The Heart is a Rebel
Title: The Heart is a Rebel
Character: Alfred Carlson
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance of Christ. THE HEART IS A REBEL features the beloved Ethel Waters, and is set against Billy Graham’s historic 1957 New York City Crusade, with color scenes of the Crusade at Madison Square Garden.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge One
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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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge
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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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Second Judge
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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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge Carter
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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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Mayor
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Title: Meet McGraw
Character: Sheriff Corin
Released: June 17, 1957
Type: TV
Meet McGraw is an American dramatic television series starring Frank Lovejoy in the role of the hard-hitting detective McGraw, a man specifically given no first name in the program. Forty-one half-hour episodes aired on NBC during the 1957-1958 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The series was produced by the Desilu Studios, most of whose productions were broadcast by CBS. The theme song for the series is "One For My Baby" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Meet McGraw preceded The Bob Cummings Show on Tuesday evenings on NBC. It aired at 9:00pm ET/PT opposite John Lupton’s Western series, Broken Arrow on ABC and Bud Collyer's To Tell the Truth quiz show on CBS. After its cancellation, Meet McGraw was repeated as The Adventures of McGraw on ABC in 1958-1959, but not in prime time. A number of episodes of the series, including "Mohave" and "Lady in Limbo," are available on DVD.
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Three Violent People
Title: Three Violent People
Character: Croupier
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Hebrew at Crag and Corridor / Slave
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
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Scheming Schemers
Title: Scheming Schemers
Character: Mr. Allen
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.
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The She-Creature
Title: The She-Creature
Character: Police Doctor with Prof. Anderson
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Title: The Fastest Gun Alive
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
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Perils of the Wilderness
Title: Perils of the Wilderness
Character: Bart Randall (as Kenneth R. MacDonald)
Released: January 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In the 56th (and next-to-last serial) made by Columbia Pictures, Montana Deputy Dan Lawson, posing as an outlaw called Laramie, goes to the Canadian northwest on the trail of Bart Randall who is wanted for murder and bank robbery in the states. In Canada, Randall is a little more upscale and uses a hydra-plane and a fake totem to over-awe the Indians. Laramie is aided in his search by RCMP Sergeant Gray and by Donna Blane, who is suspected at first of giving information to Randall, but who is actually a Canadian secret agent investigating Randall's gun-trading with the Indians.
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Blunder Boys
Title: Blunder Boys
Character: Capt. F. B. Eye
Released: November 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. This was Shemp's last completed film.
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Hot Ice
Title: Hot Ice
Character: Dapper Malone
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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The Gun That Won the West
Title: The Gun That Won the West
Character: Colonel E.M. Still
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In the late 1880s, Colonel Carrington and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sious Indian territory of Wyoming. Carrington recruits former cavalry scouts Jim Bridger and "Dakota Jack" Gaines to lead the project. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud, and they feel a peace treaty with the Indians can be made. If an Indian-war breaks out, the cavalry is depending on getting a new type of Springfield rifle. Bridger, Gaines and Gaines wife, Maxine, arrive at the fort for the conference. Gaines, in a drunken fit, tries to intimidate the Indians unto signing a treaty. Chied Red Fox threatens war if his territory is invaded by any troops building forts.
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Seminole Uprising
Title: Seminole Uprising
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West.
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Captain Lightfoot
Title: Captain Lightfoot
Released: March 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
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Of Cash and Hash
Title: Of Cash and Hash
Character: Lefty Loomis
Released: February 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her.
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Shot in the Frontier
Title: Shot in the Frontier
Character: Bill Noonan (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the stooges are courting.
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The Caine Mutiny
Title: The Caine Mutiny
Character: Court-Martial Board Member (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Title: Silver Needle in the Sky
Character: General Arpo
Released: May 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
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Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Southwest Passage
Title: Southwest Passage
Character: Sheriff Morgan
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Director Ray Nazarro's 1954 western, originally filmed in 3-D, stars John Ireland and Joanne Dru as fugitive bank robbers who hide out by joining a government expedition bound for California.
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Savage Frontier
Title: Savage Frontier
Character: Marshal Bradley
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care of his hot headed brother and devoted sister, he becomes set upon by both the law, represented by Federal Marshall Rocky Lane, and by his former outlaw buddies led by the notorious William Oakes.
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Loose Loot
Title: Loose Loot
Character: Icabod Slipp
Released: April 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance.
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Booty And The Beast
Title: Booty And The Beast
Character: Icabod Slipp
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Title: Marshal of Cedar Rock
Character: Sheriff Blake
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
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Arctic Flight
Title: Arctic Flight
Character: Father François
Released: October 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman. But, in reality, he is a Russian spy on his way to Siberia carrying microfilms of the United States' defense installations.
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Three Dark Horses
Title: Three Dark Horses
Character: William 'Bill' Wick
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild fight.
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Leadville Gunslinger
Title: Leadville Gunslinger
Character: Sheriff Nichols
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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Trail Guide
Title: Trail Guide
Character: Wagon Master Wheeler
Released: February 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A cowboy (Tim Holt) and his Mexican-Irish sidekick (Richard Martin) lead a wagon train to an unfriendly place.
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Rose of Cimarron
Title: Rose of Cimarron
Character: Posse Sheriff
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
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Distant Drums
Title: Distant Drums
Character: General's Staff Officer
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety
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Desert of Lost Men
Title: Desert of Lost Men
Character: Bill Hackett
Released: November 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Rocky Lane arrives at the town of Bear Creek to help insure the safe arrival of forty thousand dollars the citizens have raised to build a new hospital. After one of the town's doctors is killed in an ambush, Rocky devises a plan with the remaining doctor and sheriff to smoke out the bad guys.
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Hula-La-La
Title: Hula-La-La
Character: Varanu, Witch Doctor
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
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Hot Lead
Title: Hot Lead
Character: Sheriff Lacy
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Recently released from prison, nice guy Dave Collins finds himself unwillingly mixed up with his old outlaw acquaintances Turk Thorne and his gang as they try to use his telegraphy talents to zero in on the arrival of a gold shipment on the local train. Taking a liking to Collins, cowboys Tim Holt and Chito Rafferty get him to agree to help set a trap for the train robbers
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My Forbidden Past
Title: My Forbidden Past
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
Title: The Sword of Monte Cristo
Character: Chamberlain
Released: March 3, 1951
Type: Movie
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier, the niece, Lady Christianne, of the Marquis De Montableau, announces at a secret meeting of the Normandy underground leaders that the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo was willed to her and she will use it to finance their cause. Her uncle, the only one who can decipher the symbols on the sword of Monte Cristo, the key to the treasure, derides her stand against the Emperor. La Roche takes possession of the sword and has the Marquis put into the dungeon. Christianne, as the Masked Cavalier, regains the sword from La Roche, but Captain Renault apprehends her and returns to sword to La Roche.
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Law of the Badlands
Title: Law of the Badlands
Character: Captain Bill McVey
Released: February 24, 1951
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers send Dave and Chito into the badlands to see if they can locate a counterfeiting operation. They arrive posing as wanted outlaws and this gets them into the gang. But as soon as they uncover the operation and locate the printing press, one of Chito's girl friends arrives to expose their identity and they find themselves trapped by the entire gang.
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Experiment Alcatraz
Title: Experiment Alcatraz
Character: Col. Harris
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Studio Stoops
Title: Studio Stoops
Character: Dandy Dawson
Released: October 5, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.
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Border Treasure
Title: Border Treasure
Character: Sheriff Carrigan
Released: August 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.
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Salt Lake Raiders
Title: Salt Lake Raiders
Character: Deputy Marshal Tom
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
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Storm Over Wyoming
Title: Storm Over Wyoming
Character: Robert Dawson
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford
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Dakota Lil
Title: Dakota Lil
Character: Fletch, Sentry (as Ken MacDonald)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
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Punchy Cowpunchers
Title: Punchy Cowpunchers
Character: Dillon
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
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Vagabond Loafers
Title: Vagabond Loafers
Character: Mr. Allen
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Inspector Williams
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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The Mysterious Desperado
Title: The Mysterious Desperado
Character: Sheriff Anders
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.
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Stagecoach Kid
Title: Stagecoach Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, wealthy Peter Arnold who has just arrived to retire on his ranch, bringing in tow his daughter, tomboy Jessie, who despises western life and can't wait to run off back to San Francisco. Stagecoach line owner Dave Collins and his sidekick Chito show up just in time to deter the attackers. Collins isn't done yet, though, as a gold shipment sent on one of his stages is stolen by Parnell and Clint, one of whom is recognized by Jessie, attempting to escape back to the west coast. Collins has his hands full trying to retrieve the stolen gold, and dealing with Jessie, who's fallen head-over-heels in love with him.
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Hellfire
Title: Hellfire
Released: May 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
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The Gay Amigo
Title: The Gay Amigo
Character: Captain Lewis
Released: May 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and Pancho are mistakenly identified as leaders of an outlaw band. While the cavalry runs them down, they must hunt down the real bad guys.
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Radio Riot
Title: Radio Riot
Released: February 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Harry tries to entertain a family of rich hillbillies.
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Crime on Their Hands
Title: Crime on Their Hands
Character: Dapper Malone
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
The Stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft of a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Title: Belle Starr's Daughter
Character: Uncle Jim Davis
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Gen. de Beaufort
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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False Paradise
Title: False Paradise
Character: Nat Bentley
Released: September 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
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Frontier Agent
Title: Frontier Agent
Character: Burton Wheelock
Released: May 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown is sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang.
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Shivering Sherlocks
Title: Shivering Sherlocks
Character: Lefty Loomis
Released: January 8, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
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Rolling Down to Reno
Title: Rolling Down to Reno
Character: Ted Crissman
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Harry von Zell, a commentator on a radio show, unknowingly angers a wanted gangster with his comments on the air.
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Hold That Lion!
Title: Hold That Lion!
Character: Icabod Slipp
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Johnny O'Clock
Title: Johnny O'Clock
Character: Cop
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
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Pardon My Terror
Title: Pardon My Terror
Character: Mr. Grooch
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
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That Texas Jamboree
Title: That Texas Jamboree
Character: Brady
Released: May 16, 1946
Type: Movie
With the backing of the Mayor, Brady is running a crooked gambling operation. When Sheriff Curt shuts him down, he reopens when the Mayor charters his place as a private club. When Curt decides to run for Mayor, he is made to shut down the popular Warren medicine show. With Curt now out of favor the Warrens decide to run their daughter for Mayor and Brady has a plan to stop her also.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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The Windjammer
Title: The Windjammer
Character: Producer
Released: November 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter. As a film executive prior to the war, Elliott always had the thought that he could make animals talk on the screen, and when he tells this to Bob, he heartily agrees. They form a partnership whereby Elliott will handle the technical aspects, and Bob will write the dialogue for the talking animals. They go to Hollywood, where they start work on the film with the financial help of a producer. However, when half of the scenes are completed, they run the scenes for the producer, who walks out and refuses to put any more money in the project.
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The Lost Trail
Title: The Lost Trail
Character: John Corbett
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the stagecoach line is pretty Jane Burns (Jennifer Holt).
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Shadow Of Terror
Title: Shadow Of Terror
Character: McKenzie
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A scientist possessing the formula for making a nuclear bomb finds himself chased by evil gangsters in this thriller that was made just after the A-bomb was dropped upon Hiroshima.
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Back to Bataan
Title: Back to Bataan
Character: Maj. McKinley (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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The Monster and the Ape
Title: The Monster and the Ape
Character: Police Inspector Hamilton
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
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The Power of the Whistler
Title: The Power of the Whistler
Character: John Crawford
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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Cowboy from Lonesome River
Title: Cowboy from Lonesome River
Character: Senator Daniel G. Proctor / Sheppard Proctor
Released: September 21, 1944
Type: Movie
This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to defeat a ruthless range boss.
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West of the Rio Grande
Title: West of the Rio Grande
Character: Martin Keene
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Two-fisted cowboys fight for law and order in their encounters with outlaws.
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The Desert Hawk
Title: The Desert Hawk
Character: Akbar
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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The Racket Man
Title: The Racket Man
Character: Draft Board Medical Officer
Released: January 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
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Pride of the Plains
Title: Pride of the Plains
Character: Dan Hurley
Released: January 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Dan Hurley wants to sell wild horses and is trying to get the Wild Game Laws that protect them changed. To get his petition signed, his henchman paints his trained horse to look like the wild horse leader and has it kill a man. Johnny Revere finds traces of paint on a horse and tries to arrest Hurley and his men. But he is captured by the gang and is now slated to be the next victim of the trained horse.
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Black Arrow
Title: Black Arrow
Character: Jake Jackson
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Dr. Bremmer
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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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Admiral (Clark's CO)
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Six Gun Gospel
Title: Six Gun Gospel
Character: Ace Benton
Released: August 3, 1943
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks through town and Benton is attempting to secure the land by scaring off the settlers.
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We've Never Been Licked
Title: We've Never Been Licked
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
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Robin Hood of the Range
Title: Robin Hood of the Range
Character: Henry Marlowe
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
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The Valley of Vanishing Men
Title: The Valley of Vanishing Men
Character: Jonathan Kincaid
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
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Stand By All Networks
Title: Stand By All Networks
Character: Captain Banion
Released: October 29, 1942
Type: Movie
An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: Recruiting Station Doctor
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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Riders of the Northland
Title: Riders of the Northland
Character: Matt Taylor
Released: June 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, three Texas Rangers decide to do their part to save the world and join the Army, but before they can, they are sent to Alaska to destroy a secret Nazi operation involving a submarine refueling station. The outpost is located behind an impenetrable tangle of barbed wire. The rangers get a little help, and discover a traitor. Then to get through the wire, they start a cattle stampede and save the day.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Margate Dispatcher
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Mort Ransome
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Doctor
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Cadets on Parade
Title: Cadets on Parade
Character: Dr. Nesbitt
Released: January 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended by a newsboy and they tutor each other, but soon get embroiled in a ransom scheme.
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Confessions of Boston Blackie
Title: Confessions of Boston Blackie
Character: Caulder
Released: December 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Pony Express Rider
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Harmon of Michigan
Title: Harmon of Michigan
Character: Doctor
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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Mystery Ship
Title: Mystery Ship
Character: Gorman
Released: September 3, 1941
Type: Movie
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: King Canfield
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Hands Across the Rockies
Title: Hands Across the Rockies
Character: Juneau Jessup
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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Under Age
Title: Under Age
Character: Johnson
Released: April 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
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Prairie Pioneers
Title: Prairie Pioneers
Character: Fields (as Ken MacDonald)
Released: February 16, 1941
Type: Movie
It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Carlos to take the land over. But Tucson is on the side of Roberto and see's that something is not right with all the trouble they have been having. But the situation turns ugly for Don Ortega when Roberto is set up for a murder he did not commit.
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The Devil Commands
Title: The Devil Commands
Character: Sheriff Ed Willis
Released: February 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
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The Wildcat of Tucson
Title: The Wildcat of Tucson
Character: Rance McKee
Released: December 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When his brother Dave is put in jail, Bill Hickok returns to help him. Dave has been charged with attempted murder when the other man drew first. Judge Barlow put him there and Bill gets the Judge to confess. Bill learns that Rance McKee is behind all the trouble and he forces the Judge into the decisions he wants. So Bill heads out by himself to face McKee in the showdown.
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Frontier Vengeance
Title: Frontier Vengeance
Character: Slash
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood friend Clay Blackburn (George Offerman Jr.). Once there he learns that Clay's father, Frank Blackburn (Ivan Miller), is the unscrupulous proprietor of a stagecoach line and is out to bankrupt the line run by Joel Hunter (Griff Barnett' ), the father of Jim's sweetheart Ruth Hunter (Betty Moran). Jim is forced to lead the fight against his best friend.
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Anson, Prison Guard
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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The Durango Kid
Title: The Durango Kid
Character: Mace Ballard
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: John Appleby
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Island of Doomed Men
Title: Island of Doomed Men
Character: Doctor Rosener
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Bullets for Rustlers
Title: Bullets for Rustlers
Character: Ed Brock
Released: March 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: James Webster
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
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Two-Fisted Rangers
Title: Two-Fisted Rangers
Character: Jack Rand
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Thad Lawson arrives in Oak Valley to avenge the murder of his brother, the local sheriff. He learns that Jack Rand, powerful overlord of the town is to blame. After Rand murders newspaper publisher Jordan Webster, Thad sets out to put him behind bars.
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The Taming of the West
Title: The Taming of the West
Character: Carp Blaisdale
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When the marshal of the lawless town of Prairie Port is shot while trying to break up a saloon brawl, Wild Bill Saunders, a newcomer to town, rides in pursuit of Turkey, the marshal's assailant.
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Outpost of the Mounties
Title: Outpost of the Mounties
Character: R.A. Kirby
Released: September 12, 1939
Type: Movie
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupulous trader whose price mark-ups are beginning to hurt the community. They fight so frequently that when the avaricious proprietor is killed, the young man becomes the prime suspect.
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Overland with Kit Carson
Title: Overland with Kit Carson
Character: Winchester
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: James Webster
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Hutchins (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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Spoilers of the Range
Title: Spoilers of the Range
Character: Cash Fenton
Released: April 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Hero Jeff Strong (Starrett) comes to the rescue of a group of victimized ranchers. The villains are a gang of crooked gamblers, who demand a valuable dam as payment for a $50,000 debt. The ranchers hope to earn the money by getting their cattle to market on time, but head bad guy Cash Fenton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his flunkey Lobo (Dick Curtis) intend to prevent this.
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Border Vengeance
Title: Border Vengeance
Character: Flash Purdue
Released: June 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher is murdered after discovering that 40 head of his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border, then tries to find the real killers to clear their name.
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Below the Sea
Title: Below the Sea
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Harris... Guard
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Safe in Hell
Title: Safe in Hell
Character: Wireless Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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The Little Buckaroo
Title: The Little Buckaroo
Character: Jack Pemberton
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
The plucky boy rider Red discovers the dead body of Jim Crawford in the desert. A message scratched on a canteen begs the finder to protect Jim's daughter Ann from the killer, Luke Matthews.
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The Law of the Snow Country
Title: The Law of the Snow Country
Character: Sergeant Jimmy Burke
Released: April 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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Slow as Lightning
Title: Slow as Lightning
Released: December 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he'll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn't about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good... Will Jimmie's fortune come true? Will he be able to defeat Fenton and win the heart of the girl? Watch and find out!