Archie Twitchell

Archie Twitchell

Born: November 28, 1906
Died: January 31, 1957

Movies for Archie Twitchell...

Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Mr. Manning
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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The Bounty Hunter
Title: The Bounty Hunter
Character: Harrison
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.
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Kansas City Confidential
Title: Kansas City Confidential
Character: Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1952
Type: Movie
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
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The Frontier Phantom
Title: The Frontier Phantom
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Lash Larue seeks to arrest his twin brother, known as the Frontier Phantom
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The Vanishing Outpost
Title: The Vanishing Outpost
Character: Mack
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Walker is an undercover Pinkerton Agent and gets Lash and Fuzzy involved in cleaning up the Taggert. A mash up of old Lash films and other movies and released as an original film.
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Yes Sir, Mr. Bones
Title: Yes Sir, Mr. Bones
Character: Interlocutor
Released: July 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A young boy finds himself in a home for retired minstrel acts. He's anxious to find out as much as he can about them, and flashbacks show what it was like back in the days of the minstrel shows.
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The Thundering Trail
Title: The Thundering Trail
Character: Governor Tom Emery
Released: July 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Lash and Fuzzy have been sent to escort the new Governor to the Capitol City. West and his outlaw gang are out to stop them. When Lash's first attempt is foiled, he realizes the Governor's supposedly deaf and dumb servant is the informant and sets a trap for the gang.
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Mike Carver (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Revenue Agent
Title: Revenue Agent
Character: Ernie Medford
Released: December 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
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Sunset Boulevard
Title: Sunset Boulevard
Character: Salesman at Men's Shop (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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I Shot Billy the Kid
Title: I Shot Billy the Kid
Character: Saloon Tough Slapped by Billy
Released: July 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
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The Gunfighter
Title: The Gunfighter
Character: Johnny (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Reporter
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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Follow Me Quietly
Title: Follow Me Quietly
Character: Dixon (as Michael Branden)
Released: July 7, 1949
Type: Movie
1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on rainy nights.
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Moonrise
Title: Moonrise
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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The Saxon Charm
Title: The Saxon Charm
Character: Mr. Maddox
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Newspaper Man (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Out of the Past
Title: Out of the Past
Character: Rafferty (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Barker
Released: July 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Title: Robin Hood Of Texas
Character: Jim Prescott
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
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Web of Danger
Title: Web of Danger
Character: Ramsey, Meteorologist
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Freddie Francher
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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Suddenly It's Spring
Title: Suddenly It's Spring
Character: Captain Jergens
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
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The Arnelo Affair
Title: The Arnelo Affair
Character: Roger Alison (as Michael Branden)
Released: February 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
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Accomplice
Title: Accomplice
Character: Sheriff Rucker
Released: September 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Black Angel
Title: Black Angel
Character: George Mitchell
Released: August 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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The French Key
Title: The French Key
Character: Murdock (as Michael Branden)
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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The Missing Corpse
Title: The Missing Corpse
Character: Jimmy Trigg (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: Cadet Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Thundering Hoofs
Title: Thundering Hoofs
Character: Steve Farley
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Henry Carney
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Petty Officer
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
Title: USS VD: Ship of Shame
Character: 'Doc' Taylor (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Suspicious Cafe Waiter
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Among the Living
Title: Among the Living
Character: Tom Reilly
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Prairie Stranger
Title: Prairie Stranger
Character: Barton
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Cavalry Lieutenant
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Joe Martin
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Motorcycle Officer
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Lt. Clarkton
Released: March 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
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Behind the News
Title: Behind the News
Character: Reporter
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Ross
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Mountie
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Phillip
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Carter Lane
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Bates
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: Mac - Attendant
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Granny Get Your Gun
Title: Granny Get Your Gun
Character: Joe
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
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Wolf of New York
Title: Wolf of New York
Character: Cop
Released: January 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: General's Orderly
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Television Spy
Title: Television Spy
Character: Jim Winton
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Lieutenant Fox
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Flight at Midnight
Title: Flight at Midnight
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Shelby, the Bus Driver
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: 2nd Interne
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Bank Teller
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Elevator Operator
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Character: Duke
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Nelson
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Radio Station Technician
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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Her Jungle Love
Title: Her Jungle Love
Character: Roy Atkins
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is believed a goddess by the natives of the adjoining islands. The three are about to leave the island on a make-shift raft when a gang of savage tribesman land, headed by Kuasa, a half-mad potentate who informs them that all whites are his mortal enemies because an Englishwoman once spurned his love and he got his revenge by stealing her daughter, who is Tura.
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Tip-Off Girls
Title: Tip-Off Girls
Character: Hensler
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Man with Paper
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Hold 'Em Navy
Title: Hold 'Em Navy
Character: Jerry Abbott
Released: November 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Two football players fight over the same girl.
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Photographer
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Title: Sophie Lang Goes West
Character: Clerk
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.