George Humbert

George Humbert

Born: July 29, 1880
Died: May 8, 1963
in Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Movies for George Humbert...

The Rose Tattoo
Title: The Rose Tattoo
Character: Pop Mangiacavallo (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1955
Type: Movie
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
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Manhandled
Title: Manhandled
Character: Italian Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
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Gilda
Title: Gilda
Character: Italian Man (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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A Guy Could Change
Title: A Guy Could Change
Character: Pete
Released: January 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Organ Grinder
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Gardener (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Truck Busters
Title: Truck Busters
Character: Andy Panopolos
Released: January 28, 1943
Type: Movie
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Joe Maggotti
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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Tish
Title: Tish
Character: Tony
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Chef with Bread (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Fiesta
Title: Fiesta
Character: Pancho
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.
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Moon Over Miami
Title: Moon Over Miami
Character: Texas Tommy Cafe Proprietor
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Ice Cream Vendor (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Martinez (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Organ Grinder's Shill (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Chef
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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The Girl from Avenue A
Title: The Girl from Avenue A
Character: Sylvester Gallupi
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Tony
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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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Boss of Bullion City
Title: Boss of Bullion City
Character: Mario - Saloon Owner
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Tony - Pushcart Vendor and Clinic Supporter (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Italian Deli Manager
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Music in My Heart
Title: Music in My Heart
Character: Luigi
Released: January 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
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Yukon Flight
Title: Yukon Flight
Character: Nick - Cafe Owner
Released: January 2, 1940
Type: Movie
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed when Renfrew finds the control stick has been jammed, forcing the plane to fly in one direction until the gas ran out. Mine owner Louise Howard (Louise Stanley) reports that her superintendent is missing. The Mounties find him murdered and that too has been made to look like an accident. A new mail service pilot, Bill Shipley (Warren Hull), arrives. He had gone to training school with Renfrew but had been cashiered for misconduct. The Mounties discover that Raymond (Karl Hackett), who had been working for Louise, really owns the flying line managed by Yuke Cardoe (William Pawley.) They find proof that all the gold from the mine isn't being turned over to Louise, and suspect that Raymond and Yuke are stealing the gold and shipping it to Seattle by plane.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Luigi (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Mercantonio
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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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Cortesi
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Manuel Lopez
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Title: Fisherman's Wharf
Character: Pietro
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Del Rio
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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Blondie
Title: Blondie
Character: Pie Salesman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Restaurant Owner
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Lupo
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Port of Seven Seas
Title: Port of Seven Seas
Character: Organ Grinder
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Trompas
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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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Buenocasa
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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Swing It, Sailor!
Title: Swing It, Sailor!
Character: Pet Shop Proprietor
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Chef
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Expensive Husbands
Title: Expensive Husbands
Character: Giovanni
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Unable to get work in her home country, Laurine Lynne (Beverly Roberts) travels to Vienna where her press agent, Joe Craig (Allyn Joslyn), convinces her to marry royalty. The lucky fellow is Prince Rupert (Patric Knowles), an impoverished nobleman now working as a waiter. Do the two of them fall in love despite this marriage of convenience?
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: Toni
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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Trouble at Midnight
Title: Trouble at Midnight
Character: Nick
Released: October 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Organ Grinder
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Pascagli
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Romano
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Tony - Nightclub Owner (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Border Cafe
Title: Border Cafe
Character: Café Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Mr. Spinelli (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Love Is News
Title: Love Is News
Character: Mike Allegretti
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Junkman (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Mama Steps Out
Title: Mama Steps Out
Character: Cook
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
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Banjo on My Knee
Title: Banjo on My Knee
Character: Jules
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.
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Winterset
Title: Winterset
Character: Tony aka Lucia
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 Public Pays
Title: The Public Pays
Character: Italian Milk Dealer Simonelli (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Johnny 'Hop-Scotch'
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Socrates
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Head Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Head Waiter
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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In Caliente
Title: In Caliente
Character: Photographer
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Title: The Case of the Curious Bride
Character: Luigi
Released: April 13, 1935
Type: Movie
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Gentlemen Are Born
Title: Gentlemen Are Born
Character: Italian
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Ice Cream Vendor
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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Redhead
Title: Redhead
Character: Pasquale
Released: October 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Italian (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Mario - the Maitre D'
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Felix (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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Fugitive Road
Title: Fugitive Road
Character: Papa Vinocchio
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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Name the Woman
Title: Name the Woman
Character: Louie
Released: July 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Title: Whom the Gods Destroy
Character: Niccoli
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Tony
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Registered Nurse
Title: Registered Nurse
Character: Mr. Bonelli
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Caponelli
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Hi, Nellie!
Title: Hi, Nellie!
Character: Mike Marinello
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.
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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Louis Papolita
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Beverage Vendor
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Mr. Carmonotti
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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I Cover the Waterfront
Title: I Cover the Waterfront
Character: Tony Silva
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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The Keyhole
Title: The Keyhole
Character: Hotel Metropole Waiter #1 (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The California Trail
Title: The California Trail
Character: Alberto
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: Waiter in Venice (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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Hearts of Humanity
Title: Hearts of Humanity
Character: Tony
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
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Ladies of the Jury
Title: Ladies of the Jury
Character: Antonio 'Tony' Theodolphulus (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Italian Uncle (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Street Scene
Title: Street Scene
Character: Filippo Fiorentino
Released: September 5, 1931
Type: Movie
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
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The Sap from Syracuse
Title: The Sap from Syracuse
Character: Macedonian Waiter
Released: July 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
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Bullin' the Bullsheviki
Title: Bullin' the Bullsheviki
Released: November 1, 1919
Type: Movie
As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.
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The Caillaux Case
Title: The Caillaux Case
Character: Albert Calmette
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGARO, Gaston Calmette was shot to death by Madame Caillaux, wife of the Minister of Finance for his exposè of her husband's traitorous activities on behalf of Germany.
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The Woman and the Law
Title: The Woman and the Law
Character: Señor Del Castillo
Released: March 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Jack La Salle marries South American heiress Blanquetta Del Castillo, and the two settle into a happy life in New York City. Following the birth of their son, Jack, Jr., however, Jack becomes involved in an affair with the notorious Josie Sabel and thereafter ignores his wife. Outraged upon learning that Jack has taken their son to Josie's apartment, Blanquetta files for divorce, the court finally ruling that the boy must live with each parent for a portion of the year. As the time of little Jack's departure from his father approaches, Jack, Sr. declares that he will never return the boy to his mother, whereupon the tortured Blanquetta shoots and kills her faithless husband.