Norman Willis

Norman Willis

Born: May 27, 1903
Died: January 27, 1988
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Norman Willis...

The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Hank Willis
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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A Hatful of Rain
Title: A Hatful of Rain
Character: Ed (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1957
Type: Movie
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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Voodoo Woman
Title: Voodoo Woman
Character: Harry West
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his village, the scientist realizes that Marilyn the expedition's evil leader is the perfect subject for his work.
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Thunder Over Arizona
Title: Thunder Over Arizona
Character: Sheriff Hudson
Released: August 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Cop
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Intern
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Bartender
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Man with Toy Plane
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Drum Beat
Title: Drum Beat
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
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Pals and Gals
Title: Pals and Gals
Character: Doc Barker (archive footage)
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Red Devers
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
Title: Bandits of Dark Canyon
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with him. As Rocky is bringing him in, Archer is attacked again. Somebody wants Archer killed and Rocky, now suspecting Archer is innocent, decides to find out who and why.
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Bowery Buckaroos
Title: Bowery Buckaroos
Character: Blackjack McCoy
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Monty
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Santos
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
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Out West
Title: Out West
Character: Doc Barker
Released: April 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Apology for Murder
Title: Apology for Murder
Character: Allen Webb
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
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In Old New Mexico
Title: In Old New Mexico
Character: Will Hastings
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
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Law of the Badlands
Title: Law of the Badlands
Character: Clyde Whipple
Released: April 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
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Roaring Guns
Title: Roaring Guns
Character: Michen - Mine Foreman
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Hail to the Rangers
Title: Hail to the Rangers
Character: Monte Kerlin
Released: September 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A shady newspaper publisher and a gambler then conspire to take over the land. Fortunately, another ranger endeavors to help his pal. Enlisting the aide of his fellow rangers, they get oust the homesteaders. The publisher and the gambler shoot each other and the retired ranger gets his ranch back.
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Johnny Come Lately
Title: Johnny Come Lately
Character: Dudley Hirsh
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died.
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The Avenging Rider
Title: The Avenging Rider
Character: Red Hall
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
Title: I Escaped from the Gestapo
Character: FBI Chief Rodt
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Henchman Buxton
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Policeman
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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Overland to Deadwood
Title: Overland to Deadwood
Character: Cash Quinlan
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
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The Living Ghost
Title: The Living Ghost
Character: Cedric, the Butler
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Mack Vandall
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Paul Brenner
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: Bart Braden
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Twilight on the Trail
Title: Twilight on the Trail
Character: Kervy
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Union Corporal (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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The Iron Claw
Title: The Iron Claw
Character: Roy Benson
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
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Outlaws of the Panhandle
Title: Outlaws of the Panhandle
Character: 'Faro Jack' Vaughn
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
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You, the People
Title: You, the People
Character: Henchman
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Beyond the Sacramento
Title: Beyond the Sacramento
Character: Nelson
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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King of the Royal Mounted
Title: King of the Royal Mounted
Character: Tarner
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Neves, Mike's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Bad Man from Red Butte
Title: Bad Man from Red Butte
Character: Hal Benson
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Union Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Joe - Shot at Floyd (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Henchman
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: Les Harper
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Bootlegger (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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The Forgotten Woman
Title: The Forgotten Woman
Character: Stu Mantle
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Joe Neves (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Divorce Process Server (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Boy Slaves
Title: Boy Slaves
Character: Drift Boss
Released: February 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Mike Garth
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Joe Russell
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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Homicide Bureau
Title: Homicide Bureau
Character: Briggs
Released: January 5, 1939
Type: Movie
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Von Richter
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Gus Hawkins
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Prison Nurse
Title: Prison Nurse
Character: Deputy
Released: March 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: Marine
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Spider Webb
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Title: Outlaws of the Prairie
Character: William Lupton
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of gold-shipment robberies. So does heroine Judy Garfield (Iris Meredith), whose stage transport business faces foreclosure if the holdups continue. It comes as no surprise that the crimes are being orchestrated by the very people who want to force Judy out of business.
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: Hanson
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Fred
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Men in Exile
Title: Men in Exile
Character: Rocky Crane
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Jefferson
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Secret Valley
Title: Secret Valley
Character: Nick Collins aka Howard Carlo
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
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Torture Money
Title: Torture Money
Character: Henchman Doc (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: Steve Moran
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Joel Balerino (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Louie Vinci
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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F-Man
Title: F-Man
Character: Jerry
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Title: Mary Burns, Fugitive
Character: Joe
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Police Radio Dispatcher
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.