John Bleifer

John Bleifer

Born: July 26, 1901
Died: January 24, 1992
in Zawiercie, Poland, Russian Empire [now Zawiercie, Slaskie, Poland]

Movies for John Bleifer...

Inside Out
Title: Inside Out
Character: Hyman
Released: August 21, 1987
Type: Movie
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
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Eleanor, First Lady of the World
Title: Eleanor, First Lady of the World
Released: May 12, 1982
Type: Movie
Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death.
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The Frisco Kid
Title: The Frisco Kid
Character: First Rabbi
Released: July 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
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F.I.S.T.
Title: F.I.S.T.
Character: Mishka
Released: April 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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Heavy Traffic
Title: Heavy Traffic
Character: (voice)
Released: August 8, 1973
Type: Movie
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: Mr. Fine
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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The Hook
Title: The Hook
Character: Steward
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
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If a Man Answers
Title: If a Man Answers
Character: Tobacconist
Released: October 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.
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Footsteps in the Night
Title: Footsteps in the Night
Character: Diggins (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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The 27th Day
Title: The 27th Day
Character: Spokesman
Released: January 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
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Chain of Evidence
Title: Chain of Evidence
Character: Jake Habermann
Released: January 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
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Fighting Trouble
Title: Fighting Trouble
Character: Bates (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1956
Type: Movie
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
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Crashing Las Vegas
Title: Crashing Las Vegas
Character: Joe Crumm
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.
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World Without End
Title: World Without End
Character: Jule (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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Spy Chasers
Title: Spy Chasers
Character: The Fake Courier
Released: July 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
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White Lightning
Title: White Lightning
Character: Tailor
Released: March 8, 1953
Type: Movie
The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from gamblers by the star player. When the team is joined by cocky Mike Connors, a boyhood friend of Jack's, they begin to regain their former winning ways.
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Red Snow
Title: Red Snow
Character: Commissar Volgan
Released: July 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Waiter
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Hungarian (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Bowery Battalion
Title: Bowery Battalion
Character: Decker
Released: January 24, 1951
Type: Movie
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Title: The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Walda's Uncle (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
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State Penitentiary
Title: State Penitentiary
Character: Jailbreak Jimmy
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
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Come to the Stable
Title: Come to the Stable
Character: Rosey (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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Smuggler's Cove
Title: Smuggler's Cove
Character: Dr. Franz Lieber
Released: October 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
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French Leave
Title: French Leave
Character: Pop LaFarge
Released: April 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
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The Enchanted Valley
Title: The Enchanted Valley
Character: Menelli
Released: March 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Jan Gruska (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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High Conquest
Title: High Conquest
Character: Traveler
Released: June 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Clerk
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Coal Heaver (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Coach Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Zimmerman
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
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Headin' for God's Country
Title: Headin' for God's Country
Character: Nickolai
Released: August 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Kasar
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Peasant Who Flails González
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Secretary
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Siga (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Dead End Kids Go To War
Title: Dead End Kids Go To War
Character: Beal
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
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Lure of the Islands
Title: Lure of the Islands
Character: Lt. Lavar
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with his pal Jinx, is there to investigate rumored Japanese spy activity. He agrees to marry her if she will help him in his investigations. Through the discovery of a contraband radio set tuned to Japanese reception, Wally learns that the local Commandant is in league with the enemy and is planning an invasion of the island.
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Junior G-Men of the Air
Title: Junior G-Men of the Air
Character: Henchman Beal
Released: June 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: German Sergeant
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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The Monster and the Girl
Title: The Monster and the Girl
Character: Janitor / Wedding Witness (uncredited)
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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Comrade X
Title: Comrade X
Character: Russian Marriage License Clerk / Russian Tank Co-Pilot
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Pedro
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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Girl from God's Country
Title: Girl from God's Country
Character: Ninimook
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Sled Driver
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Sentry
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Weaver
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Wendling
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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Pacific Liner
Title: Pacific Liner
Character: Kovac
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Title: Thank You, Mr. Moto
Character: Ivan (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Title: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Character: Ludwig
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Crew Member
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Lamplighter (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Title: Charlie Chan at the Opera
Character: Murdered Orderly (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: Runner (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Fred, the Waiter
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Gangster Jerry
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Guerino
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Black Room
Title: The Black Room
Character: Franz - Captured Assassin-Villager (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Chenildieu
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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The Crimson Trail
Title: The Crimson Trail
Character: Loco
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
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Night Alarm
Title: Night Alarm
Character: Dr. Alexander Dexter
Released: December 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Bombmaker (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
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Captured!
Title: Captured!
Character: Strogin
Released: August 19, 1933
Type: Movie
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
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Clear All Wires!
Title: Clear All Wires!
Character: Sozanoff
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Korn
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Peasant Farmer
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.