Jack Cheatham

Jack Cheatham

Born: December 28, 1894
Died: March 30, 1971
in Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Movies for Jack Cheatham...

The Unsuspected
Title: The Unsuspected
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1947
Type: Movie
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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The Hat Box Mystery
Title: The Hat Box Mystery
Character: Policeman
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
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Killer at Large
Title: Killer at Large
Character: Brandon
Released: May 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Cop Arresting Violet (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
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The Dark Mirror
Title: The Dark Mirror
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Museum Attendant (Uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Police Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Title: Tomorrow Is Forever
Character: Policeman
Released: February 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Commander (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
Title: The Crime Doctor's Warning
Character: The Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Policeman
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Policeman
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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The Living Ghost
Title: The Living Ghost
Character: Police Officer Finnegan (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Broadway Big Shot
Title: Broadway Big Shot
Character: Tim
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
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Holt Of The Secret Service
Title: Holt Of The Secret Service
Character: Agent Frank [Chs. 3-5, 8-9, 15]
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Duke
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Criminals Within
Title: Criminals Within
Character: Agent Martin
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: Moving Man #1 (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: Reporter
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Pete - Steelmill Watchman
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Title: Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Stakeout Cop
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: First Cop at Building Collapse
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Cop / Detective Charlie
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Patrolman Olson
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Haunted House
Title: Haunted House
Character: Jailer
Released: July 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Policeman
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Back Door to Heaven
Title: Back Door to Heaven
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
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Crashing Through Danger
Title: Crashing Through Danger
Character: Cop
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: 1st Detective (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Murder in Greenwich Village
Title: Murder in Greenwich Village
Character: Cop
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Rioter
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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Boots of Destiny
Title: Boots of Destiny
Character: Jack - Bartender
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Fireman
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Keeper
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Prison Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Radio Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Prison Shadows
Title: Prison Shadows
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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The Petrified Forest
Title: The Petrified Forest
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Police Officer Burns (Uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Constable Clark, RCMP
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
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Skybound
Title: Skybound
Character: Joe - Patrol Flyer
Released: September 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Simmons' Burly (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Radio Sgt. Meyers
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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The Fighting Pilot
Title: The Fighting Pilot
Character: Barnes - Secret Service
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Second Cop
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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The Undie-World
Title: The Undie-World
Character: Gangster
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: Policeman Posing for Picture (uncredited)
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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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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Night Beat
Title: Night Beat
Character: Jackson Heights Newspaper Reporter
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
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Dragnet Patrol
Title: Dragnet Patrol
Character: Rumrunner
Released: December 14, 1931
Type: Movie
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
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Doughboys
Title: Doughboys
Character: Guard House Sentry (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.