Claud Allister

Claud Allister

Born: August 2, 1888
Died: July 26, 1970
in London, England, UK
Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955.

He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI and in 1924 went to America to act on the stage. In 1929 he made his film debut where he featured in The Trial of Mary Dugan.

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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Title: Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Character: Sir Giles (voice) (archive sound)
Released: May 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley.
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Meet the Governor
Title: Meet the Governor
Character: Cyril
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.
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The Black Shield of Falworth
Title: The Black Shield of Falworth
Character: Sir George
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
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Kiss Me Kate
Title: Kiss Me Kate
Character: Paul
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.
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Hong Kong
Title: Hong Kong
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: April 18, 1952
Type: Movie
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Title: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Character: Rat (voice)
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: Rat (voice)
Released: May 10, 1949
Type: Movie
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when he's framed for stealing cars by a band of rogue weasels.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: 1st. Club Man
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
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The First Gentleman
Title: The First Gentleman
Character: Manservant
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Archie
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Lord Piccadilly
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Title: Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Character: Adolphus Pickering
Released: January 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
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The Hundred Pound Window
Title: The Hundred Pound Window
Character: Hon. Freddie
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: William (scenes deleted)
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Officer-Motorist (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Charley's Aunt
Title: Charley's Aunt
Character: Spectator
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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The Reluctant Dragon
Title: The Reluctant Dragon
Character: Sir Giles (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
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Pride and Prejudice
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Mr. Beck
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Arthur Sullivan
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Suco
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Title: Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character: Sir Basil Leghorne
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Storm Over Bengal
Title: Storm Over Bengal
Character: Redding
Released: November 14, 1938
Type: Movie
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Lord Basil Sheldon (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Rudolf
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: Lord Boffingwell (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Oh, What a Knight!
Title: Oh, What a Knight!
Released: November 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Lord Fabian (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Gun salesman
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Let's Make a Night of It
Title: Let's Make a Night of It
Character: Monty
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Title: Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Character: Algy Longworth
Released: May 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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Lady Luck
Title: Lady Luck
Character: Briggs
Released: September 13, 1936
Type: Movie
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Sir Aubrey
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Three Live Ghosts
Title: Three Live Ghosts
Character: Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Lawrence Bidley
Released: September 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Mr. Vernon (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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The Lady Is Willing
Title: The Lady Is Willing
Character: Brevin
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Title: The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Character: Algy Longworth
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
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Those Were the Days
Title: Those Were the Days
Character: Capt. Horace Vale
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: The Duke, as Dukes Go
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Title: The Private Life of Henry VIII
Character: Cornell
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Sleeping Car
Title: Sleeping Car
Character: Baron Delande
Released: June 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Colonel Murgatroyd R.S.V.P.
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Medicine Man
Title: The Medicine Man
Character: Hon. Freddie Wiltshire
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A young man impersonates a doctor.
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The Midshipmaid
Title: The Midshipmaid
Character: Chinley
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
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The Return of Raffles
Title: The Return of Raffles
Character: Bunny
Released: September 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Title: Diamond Cut Diamond
Character: Joe Fragson
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
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Two White Arms
Title: Two White Arms
Character: Dr. Biggash
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
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The Unexpected Father
Title: The Unexpected Father
Character: Claude
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Mr. Loder's friend
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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The Sea Ghost
Title: The Sea Ghost
Character: Percy Atwater
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
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Platinum Blonde
Title: Platinum Blonde
Character: Dawson - the Valet
Released: October 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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I Like Your Nerve
Title: I Like Your Nerve
Character: Archie Lester
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
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Meet the Wife
Title: Meet the Wife
Character: Victor Staunton
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England. Gertrude is also laying plans to marry Doris Bellamy, her ward and the sister of her first husband, to Victor Staunton.
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Captain Applejack
Title: Captain Applejack
Character: John Jason
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
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Reaching for the Moon
Title: Reaching for the Moon
Character: Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic. He then loses his fortune in the market crash and feels he has also lost his girl.
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Monte Carlo
Title: Monte Carlo
Character: Prince Otto von Liebenheim
Released: August 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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The Florodora Girl
Title: The Florodora Girl
Character: Lord Rumblesham
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
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The Czar of Broadway
Title: The Czar of Broadway
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
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Such Men Are Dangerous
Title: Such Men Are Dangerous
Character: Fred Wyndham
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
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Slightly Scarlet
Title: Slightly Scarlet
Character: Albert Hawkins
Released: February 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
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Charming Sinners
Title: Charming Sinners
Character: Gregson
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
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Bulldog Drummond
Title: Bulldog Drummond
Character: Algy Longworth
Released: May 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.