Ralph Morgan

Ralph Morgan

Born: July 4, 1883
Died: June 11, 1956
in New York City, New York, USA
Ralph Morgan (July 6, 1883 – June 11, 1956) was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor, and the older brother of Frank Morgan (who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz, 1939).

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Gold Fever
Title: Gold Fever
Character: Nugget Jack
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Magician-turned-actor John Calvert, previously the suave leading man of Film Classics' "Falcon" series, is a curious choice to star in the rough-and-tumble western Gold Fever. John Bonar (Calvert) and grizzled old prospector Nugget Jack (Ralph Morgan) strike it rich, whereupon they are besieged by Bill Johnson's (Gene Roth) outlaw gang. Heavily outnumbered, our heroes are forced to rely on brain rather than brawn.
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Heart of the Rockies
Title: Heart of the Rockies
Character: Andrew Willard
Released: March 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
Title: Blue Grass of Kentucky
Character: Maj. Randolph McIvor
Released: January 22, 1950
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career.
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The Creeper
Title: The Creeper
Character: Dr. Lester Cavigny
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
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Sword of the Avenger
Title: Sword of the Avenger
Character: Don Adolfo Rivera
Released: June 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Roberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives the escape, carrying with him a treasure map left by one of the others. He crosses paths with Ming Tang (Strong) and a group of Chinese smugglers, with whom he finds the treasure. The booty makes him extremely wealthy, and he changes his name to Don Diego Sebastian. He then goes back to the Philippines to seek his revenge.
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Sleep, My Love
Title: Sleep, My Love
Character: Dr. Rhinehart
Released: February 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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The Last Round-up
Title: The Last Round-up
Character: Charlie Mason
Released: November 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A rancher tries to convince an Indian tribe to relocate so their land can be used to provide water for Kansas City.
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Song of the Thin Man
Title: Song of the Thin Man
Character: David Thayar
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Ed Jamison
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
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Black Market Babies
Title: Black Market Babies
Character: Dr. Henry Jordon
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
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This Love of Ours
Title: This Love of Ours
Character: Dr. Lane
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
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Hollywood and Vine
Title: Hollywood and Vine
Character: B.B. Lavish
Released: April 25, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
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The Monster and the Ape
Title: The Monster and the Ape
Character: Prof. Franklin Arnold
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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Enemy of Women
Title: Enemy of Women
Character: Mr. Quandt
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
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The Great Alaskan Mystery
Title: The Great Alaskan Mystery
Character: Dr. Miller
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
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Trocadero
Title: Trocadero
Character: Sam Wallace
Released: April 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
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The Monster Maker
Title: The Monster Maker
Character: Anthony Lawrence
Released: April 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
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Weird Woman
Title: Weird Woman
Character: Prof. Millard Sawtelle
Released: March 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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The Impostor
Title: The Impostor
Character: Col. DeBoivin
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
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Jack London
Title: Jack London
Character: George Brett
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
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Stage Door Canteen
Title: Stage Door Canteen
Character: Ralph Morgan
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
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Hitler's Madman
Title: Hitler's Madman
Character: Jan Hanka
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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The Traitor Within
Title: The Traitor Within
Character: John Scott Ryder
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
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Night Monster
Title: Night Monster
Character: Kurt Ingston
Released: October 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
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A Gentleman After Dark
Title: A Gentleman After Dark
Character: Morrison
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Gang Busters
Title: Gang Busters
Character: Dr. Clayton Maxton
Released: March 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
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Klondike Fury
Title: Klondike Fury
Character: Dr. Brady
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Title: A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Character: Alan Rogers
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: J.P. Morton
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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Adventure in Washington
Title: Adventure in Washington
Character: Sen. Cummings
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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The Mad Doctor
Title: The Mad Doctor
Character: Dr. Charles Downer
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
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I'm Still Alive
Title: I'm Still Alive
Character: Producer Walter Blake
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the stunts and still manages to get her.
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Soak the Old
Title: Soak the Old
Character: Peterson
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Judge Joseph M. Williams
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Gen. Steele
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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Smuggled Cargo
Title: Smuggled Cargo
Character: John Clayton
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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Way Down South
Title: Way Down South
Character: Timothy Reed Sr.
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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Trapped in the Sky
Title: Trapped in the Sky
Character: Colonel Whalen
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
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Man of Conquest
Title: Man of Conquest
Character: Stephen F. Austin
Released: May 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Nicholas Torrent
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Spiro Gregory
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Out West with the Hardys
Title: Out West with the Hardys
Character: Bill Northcote
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Title: Shadows Over Shanghai
Character: Howard Barclay
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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Army Girl
Title: Army Girl
Character: Kennett
Released: August 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
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Barefoot Boy
Title: Barefoot Boy
Character: John Hale
Released: August 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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Mother Carey's Chickens
Title: Mother Carey's Chickens
Character: Capt. John Carey
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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Wives Under Suspicion
Title: Wives Under Suspicion
Character: Shaw MacAllen
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Briggs
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Love Is a Headache
Title: Love Is a Headache
Character: Reginald 'Reggie' Odell
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Nicholas Pryor
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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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Commander of Paris
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Horace Mitchell
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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The Outer Gate
Title: The Outer Gate
Character: John Borden
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: John R. Flemyng
Released: December 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Yankee General
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Yellowstone
Title: Yellowstone
Character: James Foster / Anderson
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Anthony Adverse
Title: Anthony Adverse
Character: Debrulle
Released: August 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Gerald Dexter
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: District Attorney Carey
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: Mr. Dean
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry has designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for over a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to help Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an Engineer and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it, they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet satisfied with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all the tests.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Title: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Character: Leroy Hutchins, War Cloud's Owner
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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Muss 'em Up
Title: Muss 'em Up
Character: Jim Glenray
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Randolph
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Condemned to Live
Title: Condemned to Live
Character: Paul Kristan
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Kenneth S. Rockwell
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Roger Classon
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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Unwelcome Stranger
Title: Unwelcome Stranger
Character: Mike Monahan
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
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I've Been Around
Title: I've Been Around
Character: John Waring
Released: March 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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Hell in the Heavens
Title: Hell in the Heavens
Character: Lt. 'Pop' Roget
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Title: Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
Character: Herbert Rosson
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Underworld king Lee Lother has been killed aboard a ocean liner, several people could have been the murderer. There is his mistress Anya Roysen, a married woman, who was jealous of his flirtations with his old moll, night club singer Sally Marsh, who had agreed for one last night with Lother, to get her younger brother Ned out of the Lother's clutches because he has faked Lother's name on a check to pay his gambling debts. Then there is Sally's new flame Jimmy Brett, a con man and gentlemen thief, who has out-tricked Lother in a fixed poker game, and is, together with shorty, after the ladies jewels. Inspector McKinney suspects Joe Saunders, a recently released convict, who was arrested due to some tips by Lother, but Ned and Sally insist that they committed the crime alone.
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Title: A Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Wesley Sinton
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
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She Was a Lady
Title: She Was a Lady
Character: Stanley Vane
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady.
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Their Big Moment
Title: Their Big Moment
Character: Dr. Portman
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Title: Stand Up and Cheer!
Character: Secretary to President
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
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The Last Gentleman
Title: The Last Gentleman
Character: Henry Loring, Cabot's lawyer
Released: April 27, 1934
Type: Movie
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Father
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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Orient Express
Title: Orient Express
Character: Dr. Richard Czinner
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Professor Bhaer
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Raymond Wrede
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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The Mad Game
Title: The Mad Game
Character: Judge Penfield
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
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Walls of Gold
Title: Walls of Gold
Character: J. Gordon Ritchie
Released: October 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Henry
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Dr. Verney
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Shanghai Madness
Title: Shanghai Madness
Character: Li Po Chang
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
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Trick for Trick
Title: Trick for Trick
Character: Azrah
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.
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Humanity
Title: Humanity
Character: Dr. William MacDonald
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
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Strange Interlude
Title: Strange Interlude
Character: Charlie Marsden
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
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The Son-Daughter
Title: The Son-Daughter
Character: Fang Fou Hy
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Title: Rasputin and the Empress
Character: Czar Nicholas II
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Devil's Lottery
Title: Devil's Lottery
Character: Captain Geoffrey Maitland
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
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Disorderly Conduct
Title: Disorderly Conduct
Character: James Crawford
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman.
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After Tomorrow
Title: After Tomorrow
Character: Dr. Sullivan
Released: March 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
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Cheaters at Play
Title: Cheaters at Play
Character: Freddie Isquith
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
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Charlie Chan's Chance
Title: Charlie Chan's Chance
Character: Barry Kirk
Released: January 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
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Dance Team
Title: Dance Team
Character: Alex Prentice
Released: January 17, 1932
Type: Movie
From Wikipedia.com A 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Edwin J. Burke.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Riggs
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Excuse the Pardon
Title: Excuse the Pardon
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Edwin Macauley Jr
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Raymond Floriot
Released: January 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.