Willard Robertson

Willard Robertson

Born: December 31, 1885
Died: April 5, 1948
in Runnels, Texas, USA
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Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California.

Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting. He appeared on Broadway in 16 plays between 1907 and 1930. Robertson played supporting roles in many Hollywood films from 1930 until the year he died, typically portraying men of authority such as doctors, elected officials, military officers, and also lawyers. He played Jackie Cooper's stern but loving father in the oscar-winning drama Skippy (1931) and its sequel Sooky (1931). Robertson also portrayed a flamboyant lawyer in Remember the Night (1940) and the straight sheriff in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943).

Willard Robertson was also a notable writer of numerous plays, two of them were adapted into films. He also wrote the novel Moon Tide (1940) which was turned into Archie Mayo's drama thriller Moontide (1942) starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino.

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Fury at Furnace Creek
Title: Fury at Furnace Creek
Character: Gen. Leads
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Mr. Ashcroft
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Deep Valley
Title: Deep Valley
Character: Sheriff Akers
Released: July 30, 1947
Type: Movie
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Prison Warden
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Gallant Journey
Title: Gallant Journey
Character: Zachary Montgomery
Released: September 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
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Renegades
Title: Renegades
Character: Nathan Brockway
Released: June 13, 1946
Type: Movie
The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Perilous Holiday
Title: Perilous Holiday
Character: Graeme
Released: March 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
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To Each His Own
Title: To Each His Own
Character: Dr. Hunt
Released: March 12, 1946
Type: Movie
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Luke Packard
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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Nine Girls
Title: Nine Girls
Character: Capt. Brooks
Released: February 17, 1944
Type: Movie
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: 'Mac' McNamara
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Colonel at Hickam Field
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Sheriff Risley
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Juke Girl
Title: Juke Girl
Character: Mister Just
Released: May 30, 1942
Type: Movie
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Inspector Donegan
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Rancher Wilson
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Men of the Timberland
Title: Men of the Timberland
Character: Tim MacGregor
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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I Wanted Wings
Title: I Wanted Wings
Character: Judge Advocate
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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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Lieutenant Strickland
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Supt. Harrington
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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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Heber Kimball
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Judge McQuade
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Ragan
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Uncle John
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Remember the Night
Title: Remember the Night
Character: Francis X. O'Leary
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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Main Street Lawyer
Title: Main Street Lawyer
Character: John Ralston
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Story of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Two Bright Boys
Title: Two Bright Boys
Character: Clayton
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Range War
Title: Range War
Character: Buck Collins
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. Till now they have been able to charge tolls on herds passing through. Hoppy goes undercover to expose them.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Lang
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Henchman Nebraska
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Oakes Ames
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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My Son Is a Criminal
Title: My Son Is a Criminal
Character: Tom Halloran Sr.
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his footsteps, flat though they may be. Instead, the younger Halloran opts for the easy road of crime.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Clarke
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Bob Slocum
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Title: Torchy Gets Her Man
Character: Charles Gilbert
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Col. Hadley
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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You and Me
Title: You and Me
Character: Dayton
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: Inspector Sullivan
Released: May 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Walter Rhodes
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Dr. Enfield
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Mr. Franklin
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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Roaring Timber
Title: Roaring Timber
Character: Harrigan
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: George Andrews
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Matt Peasely
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Park Avenue Logger
Title: Park Avenue Logger
Character: Ben Morton
Released: March 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
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John Meade's Woman
Title: John Meade's Woman
Character: Man
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
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Larceny on the Air
Title: Larceny on the Air
Character: Inspector 'Mac' McDonald
Released: January 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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That Girl from Paris
Title: That Girl from Paris
Character: Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Title: Wanted: Jane Turner
Character: Walter Davies
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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Winterset
Title: Winterset
Character: Policeman in the Square
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Character: Police Insp. Logan
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Secretary Ingham
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Captain Winthrop
Released: July 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander; and their rescue by the last Mohicans.
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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Guy Pollock
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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The First Baby
Title: The First Baby
Character: Dr. Clarke
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
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Three Godfathers
Title: Three Godfathers
Character: Reverend McLane
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Bill MacKeechie
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Uncle Jed
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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His Night Out
Title: His Night Out
Character: J.J. Trent
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Dan Hastings
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Inspector Harris
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
Title: Oil for the Lamps of China
Character: Speaker
Released: June 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: District Attorney
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Mr. John Stanton
Released: March 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents.
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Transient Lady
Title: Transient Lady
Character: Ed Goring
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Title: Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Character: Grigsby, the Process Server
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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The Secret Bride
Title: The Secret Bride
Character: Representative Grosvenor
Released: December 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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Mills of the Gods
Title: Mills of the Gods
Character: Thomas
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Ranch Foreman
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Death on the Diamond
Title: Death on the Diamond
Character: Cato
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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Have a Heart
Title: Have a Heart
Character: Mr. Schauber
Released: September 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
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Housewife
Title: Housewife
Character: Judge Edwin A. Matthews
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
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Here Comes the Navy
Title: Here Comes the Navy
Character: Executive Officer
Released: July 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Murder in the Private Car
Title: Murder in the Private Car
Character: Hanks
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Police Captain
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Operator 13
Title: Operator 13
Character: Captain Channing
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Dr. Preston
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: Wells Deveroux
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Hardwick
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Police Captain Reynolds
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Judge Jim Morrison
Released: April 10, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: District Attorney
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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Heat Lightning
Title: Heat Lightning
Character: Everett Marshall
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Dark Hazard
Title: Dark Hazard
Character: Bill 'Billy' Fallen
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
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Two Alone
Title: Two Alone
Character: George Marshall
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Character: Detective Conroy
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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East of Fifth Avenue
Title: East of Fifth Avenue
Character: Dr. Morgan
Released: November 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around which the lives and loves of their various residents unfold. Borrowed money, a lovelorn chorus girl, and a tragic misunderstanding set in motion the chain of events in East of Fifth Avenue’s tender pageant of life.
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Roman Scandals
Title: Roman Scandals
Character: Warren Finley Cooper
Released: November 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Department Head (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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Ever in My Heart
Title: Ever in My Heart
Character: Kennel Caretaker
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Captain of Detectives
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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Tugboat Annie
Title: Tugboat Annie
Character: Red Severn
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
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Another Language
Title: Another Language
Character: Harry Hallam
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
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Supernatural
Title: Supernatural
Character: Prison Warden
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When fake psychic Paul Bavian claims to have a message from Roma's dead brother, he coaxes Roma into participating in a séance. Although Roma's fiancé, Grant, first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.
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Trick for Trick
Title: Trick for Trick
Character: Dr. Frank Fitzgerald
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.
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Central Airport
Title: Central Airport
Character: Havana Airport Manager
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Joe Shano
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Frisco Jenny
Title: Frisco Jenny
Character: Police Capt. Tom
Released: January 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Pete Springer
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Fred - Glidden Associate (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Red Pete
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Prison Board Chairman
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Virtue
Title: Virtue
Character: Detective MacKenzie
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Bit Role
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Guilty as Hell
Title: Guilty as Hell
Character: Police Sgt. Alcock
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
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Doctor X
Title: Doctor X
Character: Detective O'Halloran
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Tom Brown of Culver
Title: Tom Brown of Culver
Character: Capt. White
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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The Texas Bad Man
Title: The Texas Bad Man
Character: Millard Keefe
Released: June 29, 1932
Type: Movie
The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of the gang gets him in and he learns Keefe is the boss. When it's time for the big bank robbery Keefe puts Tom in charge but secretly tells a henchman to kill him during the holdup.
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The Rider of Death Valley
Title: The Rider of Death Valley
Character: Bill Joyce
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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The Broken Wing
Title: The Broken Wing
Character: Sylvester Cross
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...
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Steady Company
Title: Steady Company
Character: Pop Henley
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Capt. E.J. Hawkes
Released: February 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Major Lawrence Blount
Released: February 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
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Sooky
Title: Sooky
Character: Herbert Skinner
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
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The Cisco Kid
Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: Enos Hankins
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.
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Graft
Title: Graft
Character: E. T. Scudder
Released: September 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Phil Powers
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
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Skippy
Title: Skippy
Character: Herbert Skinner
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Tex Calder
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
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The Last of the Duanes
Title: The Last of the Duanes
Character: Texas Ranger Captain
Released: August 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.