Dave O'Brien

Dave O'Brien

Born: May 31, 1912
Died: November 8, 1969
in Big Spring, Texas, USA
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Dave O'Brien (born David Poole Fronabarger, May 31, 1912 – November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director, and writer.

O'Brien was best known to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. O'Brien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay. He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as Tex O'Brien. In 1942, O'Brien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight.

Modern audiences perhaps best remember O'Brien as a frantic dope addict in the 1936 low-budget exploitation film Tell Your Children (better known under its reissue title, Reefer Madness).

As a writer for The Red Skelton Show, O'Brien shared an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and shared a nomination for the same award in 1963.

O'Brien died, aged 57, of a heart attack while competing in a yachting race.

Movies for Dave O'Brien...

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Title: 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Actor in the Pete Smith Shorts (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Desperados Are in Town
Title: The Desperados Are in Town
Character: Dock Lapman / Mr. Brown
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
Title: The Kettles in the Ozarks
Character: Conductor
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
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The Fall Guy
Title: The Fall Guy
Character: Himself as Various Characters (archive footage)
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and upon whom objects fell) when he played hapless characters throughout the series. Under the pseudonym "David Barclay", O'Brien also directed many of the Specialties. Clips from previous films highlight O'Brien's work.
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Just What I Needed
Title: Just What I Needed
Character: Harry Horseknuckle
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.
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The Man Around the House
Title: The Man Around the House
Character: Hugo Hightonsil (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.
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Out for Fun
Title: Out for Fun
Character: Businessman Seeking Relaxation
Released: May 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.
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Do Someone a Favor!
Title: Do Someone a Favor!
Character: George Dibson
Released: April 10, 1954
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.
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Tennessee Champ
Title: Tennessee Champ
Character: Luke MacWade
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
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Ain't It Aggravatin'
Title: Ain't It Aggravatin'
Character: Parking Space Hog / Apartment House Manager / Frugal Man / Harry Hollowhead
Released: February 6, 1954
Type: Movie
This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.
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Things We Can Do Without
Title: Things We Can Do Without
Character: Thaddeus E. Thud III
Released: December 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.
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Kiss Me Kate
Title: Kiss Me Kate
Character: Ralph
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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Cash Stashers
Title: Cash Stashers
Character: A Shmoe Named Joe
Released: August 29, 1953
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.
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T.V. of Tomorrow
Title: T.V. of Tomorrow
Character: Man on TV
Released: June 6, 1953
Type: Movie
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.
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I Love Children, But!
Title: I Love Children, But!
Character: The Daddy
Released: December 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A Pete Smith specialty.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Man on Bench (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and-sweets temptations.
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Wrong Way Butch
Title: Wrong Way Butch
Character: Butch
Released: September 2, 1950
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and machinery are misused and safety warnings are ignored.
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A Wife's Life
Title: A Wife's Life
Character: George T. Hardnose (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
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Did'ja Know?
Title: Did'ja Know?
Character: Expectant Father / Greeting Card Shopper / Hospital Patient / Job Applicant
Released: May 6, 1950
Type: Movie
This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father?; How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year?; Why do radiators make that pounding noise?; Why do animals yawn?
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Those Good Old Days
Title: Those Good Old Days
Released: April 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage, waking up in the morning, and going to the movies.
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Let's Cogitate
Title: Let's Cogitate
Character: Oliver T. Aseltafel
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.
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Just Suppose
Title: Just Suppose
Character: Husband (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1948
Type: Movie
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
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You Can't Win
Title: You Can't Win
Character: Harried Homeowner
Released: May 29, 1948
Type: Movie
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Title: I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Character: The Son-In-Law / Husband
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
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Have You Ever Wondered?
Title: Have You Ever Wondered?
Character: Husband / Driver / Man at Gumball Machine / Toupee Wearer
Released: December 13, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.
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Neighbor Pests
Title: Neighbor Pests
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.
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I Love My Wife BUT!
Title: I Love My Wife BUT!
Character: The Husband
Released: April 5, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
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I Love My Husband, But!
Title: I Love My Husband, But!
Character: The Husband
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
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Sure Cures
Title: Sure Cures
Character: Xavier T. Schneckendorf
Released: November 2, 1946
Type: Movie
This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.
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Treasures from Trash
Title: Treasures from Trash
Character: Alonzo T. Mousebrain
Released: June 8, 1946
Type: Movie
This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.
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Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
Title: Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
Character: Horace
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and size measuring terms and protocols, race track gambling lingo, harness racing lingo and training techniques, Lipizzan stallions, and non-horse terminology using horse words. In-between the questions, other horse facts are presented and shown, including hapless novice equestrian Horace trying to saddle, mount and ride a horse.
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Studio Visit
Title: Studio Visit
Character: O'Brien
Released: May 11, 1946
Type: Movie
This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.
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Flaming Bullets
Title: Flaming Bullets
Character: Dave Wyatt / Steve Carson
Released: October 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.
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Frontier Fugitives
Title: Frontier Fugitives
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their location. The Texas Rangers are on the job and to get more information, they have Panhandle pose as an Indian chief.
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Three in the Saddle
Title: Three in the Saddle
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: July 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Peggy Barlou is a young rancher who refuses to sell her spread to greedy stage-line proprietor John Rankin. Tex Haines, meanwhile, is accused of killing Bill Dugan, Rankin's bodyguard, but eludes capture long enough to hook up with Dave Wyatt and Panhandle Perkins, a couple of rangers in disguise.
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Enemy of the Law
Title: Enemy of the Law
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: May 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment. The gold was never recovered, so the Texas Ranger chief has Ranger Panhandle Perkins planted in the prison as Charley's cell-mate in the hopes Charley will tell him where the loot is buried. Charley has a map of the location but is afraid it may be discovered so, while Panhandle is asleep, he draws a copy of it on the sole of Panhandle's foot. Charley then destroys the map but intends to keep "Panhandle" close to him upon their release from prison. Charley makes Panhandle accompany him back to the town where the rest of the hold-up gang is holed up. They go to the saloon owned by Steve Martin, also a member of the hold-up gang, but Charley was the one who buried the loot before he was captured and Charley has no intentions of divulging the location of the gold. Written by Les Adams
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
Title: The Phantom of 42nd Street
Character: Tony Woolrich
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Title: The Man Who Walked Alone
Character: Marion Scott
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
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Marked for Murder
Title: Marked for Murder
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: February 8, 1945
Type: Movie
In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting.
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The Whispering Skull
Title: The Whispering Skull
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: December 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Haines and Dave Wyatt track a killer known as the Whispering Skull. In the wake of the Skull's slaughter, a band of thieves takes advantage of the fear he's brought to town.
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Tahiti Nights
Title: Tahiti Nights
Character: Jack
Released: December 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.
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Safety Sleuth
Title: Safety Sleuth
Character: Careless Man
Released: November 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.
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Dead or Alive
Title: Dead or Alive
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: November 9, 1944
Type: Movie
The Rangers are after Yackey and his gang. Posing as an outlaw, Dave arrives as Panhandle's prisoner and works his way into the gang. Tex arrives and joins Wright's committee. Tex plans a trap for the gang but things go awry when the gang catches Tex and the Committee catches Dave and both are about to be hung.
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Gangsters of the Frontier
Title: Gangsters of the Frontier
Character: Dave Wyatt
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to work for them in the gold mines. Dave and Tex then organize the ranchers into the Territorial Rangers. After blowing up the mines to keep the gang from getting the gold, they are ready for the showdown between the two sides. Written by Maurice VanAuken
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Gunsmoke Mesa
Title: Gunsmoke Mesa
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Brand of the Devil
Title: Brand of the Devil
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: July 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending not to know each other. But eventually their identities become known and they are captured by the gang.
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Movie Pests
Title: Movie Pests
Character: Feet-in-the-Aisle Pest
Released: July 8, 1944
Type: Movie
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
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Spook Town
Title: Spook Town
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins transport the money in a strong box which they place in the Wells Fargo safe as Agent Sam Benson assures them that he is the only one who knows the safe combination.
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The Pinto Bandit
Title: The Pinto Bandit
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: April 26, 1944
Type: Movie
A masked desperado wants to disrupt the mail service between two frontier communities.
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Sportsman's Memories
Title: Sportsman's Memories
Character: Fabian Tecumseh 'Joe' Funk (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio, but knows that Joe Funk, the studio custodian who cleans his office, is the one who is always fussing around with those mementos. As Joe fiddles around with those mementos on this specific occasion, Pete recalls the films and incidents associated with those items, most which are related to sporting events.
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Guns of the Law
Title: Guns of the Law
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers take on a shyster who is trying to bilk a family of their money after he learns that an oil company thinks their land may contain the black gold.
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Outlaw Roundup
Title: Outlaw Roundup
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden believes him until the real Spade turns up and all hell breaks loose.
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Boss of Rawhide
Title: Boss of Rawhide
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.
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The Return of the Rangers
Title: The Return of the Rangers
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
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Trail of Terror
Title: Trail of Terror
Character: Tex Wyatt / Curly Wyatt
Released: September 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach robbers.
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Fighting Valley
Title: Fighting Valley
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: August 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Someone has been stealing ore from a valuable smelting mine. One of the independent mine-owners victimized by the crooks is pretty Joan Manning, making the Rangers' mission a bit more pleasant.
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Seventh Column
Title: Seventh Column
Character: Falstaff Pratt the Indestructible Man
Released: July 31, 1943
Type: Movie
This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
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Border Buckaroos
Title: Border Buckaroos
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: June 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele, and Panhandle Perkins are en route to Boulder City to investigate the murder of rancher Dan Clark when they happen upon Trigger Farley, a gunslinger hired by Cole Melford, the chief suspects in Clark's murder.
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West of Texas
Title: West of Texas
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Rangers Tex Wyatt and Jim Steele arrive in Gabe's Crossing, NM, to capture Bent Yeager, a rancher accused of sabotaging the progress of the railroad.
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Title: Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
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The Rangers Take Over
Title: The Rangers Take Over
Character: Tex Wyatt
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Title: 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Character: Sgt. Phil Lyons
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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The Yanks Are Coming
Title: The Yanks Are Coming
Character: Sgt. Callahan
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Det. Pete Crawford
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Calling All Pa's
Title: Calling All Pa's
Character: Joe Thunderstruck
Released: October 24, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
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King of the Stallions
Title: King of the Stallions
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.
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Carry Harry
Title: Carry Harry
Character: Arthur - Harry's Friend
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds that he climbed into the woman's one by mistake.
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Sheriff of Sage Valley
Title: Sheriff of Sage Valley
Character: Jeff
Released: September 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Jeff Travis
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doubles.
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Prisoner of Japan
Title: Prisoner of Japan
Character: U. S. Marine
Released: July 22, 1942
Type: Movie
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
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Down Texas Way
Title: Down Texas Way
Character: Dave Dodge
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams
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Victory Quiz
Title: Victory Quiz
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
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Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Title: Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Character: Jeff
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When the gang wound a rancher, the Doc finishes him off with his needle. Running from the law again, Billy and his pals arrive and take up the ranchers fight. But when Billy's pal Jeff is wounded, Fuzzy unknowningly takes him to Doc Hagan.
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Captain Midnight
Title: Captain Midnight
Character: Captain Albright / Captain Midnight
Released: February 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Jim Cramer
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Sparky Barton
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.
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Spooks Run Wild
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Jeff Dixon
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Billy the Kid Wanted
Title: Billy the Kid Wanted
Character: Jeff
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pal Jeff help their friend Fuzzy Jones escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise Land Development Company, ran by Matt Brawley and Jack Saunders, is somewhat less than honest in their dealings with the homesteaders. They devise a plan to cause a split between Brawley and Saunders.
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The Gunman From Bodie
Title: The Gunman From Bodie
Character: Joe Martin
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Ralph Spencer
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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The Texas Marshal
Title: The Texas Marshal
Character: Buzz Weston
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
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Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Title: Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Character: Texas Joe
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
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Murder by Invitation
Title: Murder by Invitation
Character: Michael, the chauffeur
Released: June 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Jackson, Wentworth's Aide
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Title: Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Character: Jim Dana
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Tom Lawson
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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The Devil Bat
Title: The Devil Bat
Character: Johnny Layton
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
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That Gang of Mine
Title: That Gang of Mine
Character: Knuckles Dolan
Released: September 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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The Cowboy from Sundown
Title: The Cowboy from Sundown
Character: Steve Davis
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.
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Queen of the Yukon
Title: Queen of the Yukon
Character: Bob Adams
Released: August 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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Gun Code
Title: Gun Code
Character: Henchman Gale
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Knuckles Dolan
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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Sky Bandits
Title: Sky Bandits
Character: Constable Kelly
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
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Hold That Woman!
Title: Hold That Woman!
Character: Miles Hanover
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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On the Spot
Title: On the Spot
Character: Charlie
Released: June 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Phantom Rancher
Title: Phantom Rancher
Character: Henchman Lucke
Released: March 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
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Son of the Navy
Title: Son of the Navy
Character: Nelson
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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Isle Of Destiny
Title: Isle Of Destiny
Character: Whitey - Navy Radio Man
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Murder on the Yukon
Title: Murder on the Yukon
Character: Constable Kelly
Released: February 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunken brother, Bill, comes to the post and Weathers hears him say that Jim is leaving the area for good. Weathers sends Hawks to kill Jim and retrieve the bogus money. RCMP Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly find Jim's body, and Renfrew hurries for Jim's cabin to search it. He is attacked by Weathers' men who have found the money. Renfrew is suspicious when Bill Smithers body is found, supposedly a suicide, with a note he had burned the money. This leads the Mounties to suspect counterfeiting. Kelly follows Manti, an Indian who works for Weathers, to the gang's hideout and is captured. But Renfrew is trailing Kelly.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Knuckles Dolan
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Corporal Kelly
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
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Yukon Flight
Title: Yukon Flight
Character: Constable Kelly
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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Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: Fred Chambers
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Buried Alive
Title: Buried Alive
Character: Carson
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
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Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Constable Kelly
Released: November 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for her arrest as a material witness. The bank robbers flee across the border into Canada where they steal a trailer in which they lock Ann and the loot. The hitch breaks and the trailer plunges into a lake. Sergeant Renfrew and Constable Kelly, of the Canadian Mounties, rescue Ann and she tells them she is a hitch-hiking tourist and gives a false name. Renfrew sends Kelly for aid, Ann escapes and Kelly returns with the news that she is wanted. The leader of the gang, Cardigan, sends the gang back for Ann and the loot, which Ann has hidden in a trappers cabin, just before Trigger recaptures her. Renfrew goes to her rescue, but is also captured. But reliable Constable Kelly is somewhere in the woods.
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Flaming Lead
Title: Flaming Lead
Character: Frank Gordon
Released: November 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting enough money together to get back to his beloved Arizona. Frank Gordon, while drunk, is about to be rolled by the club bouncer, but Ken interferes and earns Clark's gratitude. Gordon gets a telegram from Kay Burke, the daughter of his partner in Arizona, notifying him that her father, Jim Burke, has been killed by rustlers.The ranch has a U.S. Army contract to furnish horses, but she sees little hope of being able to make good because the stock is being rustled, and she asks Gordon for his help.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Daniels
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Man in Audience
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Soldier
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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The Fighting Renegade
Title: The Fighting Renegade
Character: Dr. Jerry Leonard
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian, the professor's niece accompanies the party as only she can translate the Aztec writings in the diary of her father, murdered on a similar expedition six years previous. The professor is murdered by a knife, and the weapon is recognized as the property of El Puma. Magpie, a Federal Investigator, knows that El Puma is really "Lightnin' Bill' Carson, a former federal agent who has been missing since Marian's father was slain. The reluctant Magpie believes that his old pal is guilty. Carson sets out to prove otherwise.
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Daughter of the Tong
Title: Daughter of the Tong
Character: Jerry Morgan
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
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New Frontier
Title: New Frontier
Character: Jason Braddock
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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Riders of the Sage
Title: Riders of the Sage
Character: Tom Martin
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
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Wyoming Outlaw
Title: Wyoming Outlaw
Character: Acacia Park Game Warden
Released: June 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Undercover Agent
Title: Undercover Agent
Character: Billiards Player
Released: April 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Outlaws' Paradise
Title: Outlaws' Paradise
Character: Henchman Meggs
Released: April 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
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Texas Wildcats
Title: Texas Wildcats
Character: Ed Arden
Released: April 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are rustling their cattle. Bill is robbing Burrows while posing as the mysterious Phantom and it's not long before the two collide.
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Trigger Smith
Title: Trigger Smith
Character: Duke
Released: March 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
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Rollin' Westward
Title: Rollin' Westward
Character: Ranch hand Red
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
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Code of the Cactus
Title: Code of the Cactus
Character: Bob Swane
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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Drifting Westward
Title: Drifting Westward
Character: Henchman Trigger
Released: January 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the third midnight raid on his home, Don Careta is fearful for the safety of his daughter Wanda, and sends for Jack Martin to help him.
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Water Rustlers
Title: Water Rustlers
Character: Bob Lawson
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
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Song of the Buckaroo
Title: Song of the Buckaroo
Character: Tex Alden
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.
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Gun Packer
Title: Gun Packer
Character: Red Baker - Henchman
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Title: Where the Buffalo Roam
Character: Jeff Gray
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
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Frontier Scout
Title: Frontier Scout
Character: Steve Norris
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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Starlight Over Texas
Title: Starlight Over Texas
Character: Henchman
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
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Utah Trail
Title: Utah Trail
Character: Mason - Bookkeeper
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find the mysterious ghost train that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line.
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Man's Country
Title: Man's Country
Character: Bat
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.
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Tell Your Children
Title: Tell Your Children
Character: Ralph
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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The Singing Cowgirl
Title: The Singing Cowgirl
Character: Dick Williams
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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Whirlwind Horseman
Title: Whirlwind Horseman
Character: Henchman Slade
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one of the prominent citizens is the real boss and sets a trap to find him.
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The Secret of Treasure Island
Title: The Secret of Treasure Island
Character: Det. Jameson [Chs. 4-7]
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. The Isle of Fear, 2. The Ghost Talks, 3. The Phantom Duel, 4. Buried Alive, 5. The Girl Who Vanished, 6. Trapped by the Flood, 7. The Cannon Roars, 8. The Circle of Death, 9. The Pirate's Revenge, 10. The Crash, 11. Dynamite, 12. The Bridge of Doom, 13. The Mad Flight, 14. The Jaws of Destruction, 15. Justice
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Trucker (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Million Dollar Racket
Title: Million Dollar Racket
Character: Johnny Henessey
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended when her father strikes oil and moves his family east to satistify his wife's social aspirations. Larry also return east to close his estate for the summer, but stays on, still posing as the chauffeur, when he learns that Molly's family is renting the place.
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Rough Riding Rhythm
Title: Rough Riding Rhythm
Character: Detective Waters
Released: August 14, 1937
Type: Movie
When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have just robbed the stage and two dectectives arrive looking for them. Finding Jim and Scrubby instead, they assume them to be the outlaws and arrest them.
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Brothers of the West
Title: Brothers of the West
Character: Bart
Released: June 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
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Lightnin' Crandall
Title: Lightnin' Crandall
Character: Tommy Shannon
Released: March 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.
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Wanted - A Master
Title: Wanted - A Master
Character: Dog's Master (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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The Black Coin
Title: The Black Coin
Character: Terry Navarro
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: George Baldwin
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Stanley Phillips
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Steve - Tap Dancer at Baxter's Party (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Member of Audience
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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No More Ladies
Title: No More Ladies
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Student
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Gift of Gab
Title: Gift of Gab
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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We're Rich Again
Title: We're Rich Again
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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Tomorrow's Children
Title: Tomorrow's Children
Character: Interne (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Chorus Boy (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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Search for Beauty
Title: Search for Beauty
Character: Talent Contestant (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Assistant Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Student on Tennis Court (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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One Man's Journey
Title: One Man's Journey
Character: Dance Extra (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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College Humor
Title: College Humor
Character: Student
Released: July 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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Pick-up
Title: Pick-up
Character: Party Boy (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Title: Rasputin and the Empress
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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The Sign of the Cross
Title: The Sign of the Cross
Character: Christian on Stairway (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1932
Type: Movie
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the highest military official in Rome, comes upon them. When he sees their stepdaughter Mercia, he instantly falls in love with her and frees them. Marcus pursues Mercia, which gets him into trouble with Emperor (for being easy on Christians) and with the Empress, who loves him and is jealous.
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Hot Saturday
Title: Hot Saturday
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Football Player (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Roar of the Dragon
Title: Roar of the Dragon
Character: Submarine Crewman
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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Is My Face Red?
Title: Is My Face Red?
Character: Chorus Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
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Consolation Marriage
Title: Consolation Marriage
Character: Man Picking Up Stack of Newspapers (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
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Flying High
Title: Flying High
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Student
Released: August 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.