Billy Wayne

Billy Wayne

Born: February 11, 1897
Died: June 12, 1970
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Movies for Billy Wayne...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Fireman in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Small Role (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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The Gun Runners
Title: The Gun Runners
Character: Dice Table Croupier (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Bartender
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Because of You
Title: Because of You
Character: George
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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O. Henry's Full House
Title: O. Henry's Full House
Character: Bystander (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Love Nest
Title: Love Nest
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
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The Lady Pays Off
Title: The Lady Pays Off
Character: Croupier
Released: October 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Character: Rooney - Rocky's Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
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Frenchie
Title: Frenchie
Character: Dealer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Title: The Jackie Robinson Story
Character: Clyde Sukeforth
Released: May 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Flaming Fury
Title: Flaming Fury
Character: Sgt. 'Berk' Berkeley
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
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Too Late for Tears
Title: Too Late for Tears
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
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The Street with No Name
Title: The Street with No Name
Character: Fight Trainer (Uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1948
Type: Movie
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
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River Lady
Title: River Lady
Character: Dealer
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
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The Miracle of the Bells
Title: The Miracle of the Bells
Character: Tommy Elmore
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Newsreel Man (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Gambler
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Billy White (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Between Two Women
Title: Between Two Women
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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The Great Morgan
Title: The Great Morgan
Character: Vince, Film Cutter (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Ballyhoo man
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Spec - Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: First 'Woo Woo' Man (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Hers to Hold
Title: Hers to Hold
Character: Joe
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Man in Bed with Tubby (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Pressman (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Driver's Helper
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Jake, man telephoning Alaska
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Sin Town
Title: Sin Town
Character: Hollister
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Train Engineer
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Cabbie
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Bookie Bob (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Lamb
Released: January 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Freddie (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Steel Against the Sky
Title: Steel Against the Sky
Character: Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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The Wagons Roll at Night
Title: The Wagons Roll at Night
Character: Chicago Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Train Fireman (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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Angels Over Broadway
Title: Angels Over Broadway
Character: Second Cabby (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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Strike Up the Band
Title: Strike Up the Band
Character: Clown
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Happy - Googi's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Photographer
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Reporter
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Character: Stage Manager
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Repairman (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Cab Driver
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Hot Steel
Title: Hot Steel
Character: Dave Martin (as William Wayne)
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Coffee Counterman
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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Star Dust
Title: Star Dust
Character: Amalgamated Cameraman
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Too Many Husbands
Title: Too Many Husbands
Character: Taxicab Driver
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Barney, bartender
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Pete
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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City of Chance
Title: City of Chance
Character: Billy - Bartender
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: Expressman
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Agitator
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Doctor
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Mike - the Bartender
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Title: Hollywood Cavalcade
Character: Assistant Stage Manager
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
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Eternally Yours
Title: Eternally Yours
Character: Stage Manager
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Film Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Stubby, a Pitman
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Mild Cabbie (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Technician
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Make-Up Artist
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Charles - Flagg's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Garage Man (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Photographer
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Theatre Hold-Up Witness (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Somewhat Secret
Title: Somewhat Secret
Character: Swingopater Violinist (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when she finds out that her boyfriend, a chemistry professor at the school, is also a well-known swing bandleader.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Second Prison Vendor (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Waiter
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Fred (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Rodeo Rider (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: First Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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The Missing Guest
Title: The Missing Guest
Character: 'Vic'
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Candy
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Ladies in Distress
Title: Ladies in Distress
Character: Brown
Released: June 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Air Devils
Title: Air Devils
Character: Sgt. Jennings
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Henchman Freddie
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Maid's Night Out
Title: Maid's Night Out
Character: Phillips - Adele's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Reporter Baker
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Danny Malone
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Joe - Martha's Driver (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Halligan
Released: August 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
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Reported Missing
Title: Reported Missing
Character: John Duffy
Released: August 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
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White Bondage
Title: White Bondage
Character: Clerk
Released: August 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Reporter
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Employment teller (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Orderly
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Painter
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Reporter #2 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Jim - Diner Counterman (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Theodora Goes Wild
Title: Theodora Goes Wild
Character: Photographer at Governor's Reception (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
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The Case of the Black Cat
Title: The Case of the Black Cat
Character: Poker Player (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Here Comes Carter
Title: Here Comes Carter
Character: The Painter
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Brown Derby Workman (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Salesman
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Newsreel Cameraman (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Boulder Dam Employment Teller (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Dunk
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Dangerous
Title: Dangerous
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
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Moonlight on the Prairie
Title: Moonlight on the Prairie
Character: Chuck
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Dave - a Townsman
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Martin
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Assistant Pitman
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
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Hot Sands
Title: Hot Sands
Character: Billy
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.