Leslie Denison

Leslie Denison

Born: June 16, 1905
Died: September 25, 1992

Movies for Leslie Denison...

Everybody Loves Donald
Title: Everybody Loves Donald
Released: November 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Donald, the world's most loveable duck from Walt Disney gets a DVD all about his web-footed, quacking white-feathered silly self. He's irritated by a bee in "The Inferior Decorator," and he gets to show off his dance moves with a lady-friend in "Mr Duck Steps Out." A funny and duck-filled cartoon compilation.
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Backwoods
Title: Backwoods
Character: Beth
Released: April 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Karen and Jamie bike out to a remote wooded area for camping. Jamie saves a young girl’s life with an emergency tracheotomy and her grateful father, Eben, invites the campers to his place for some dinner...where they also meet William, Eben’s beastly geek son.
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Signpost to Murder
Title: Signpost to Murder
Character: Superintendant Bickley
Released: December 4, 1964
Type: Movie
An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Doctor
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Chaplain
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Peter Gunn
Released: September 22, 1958
Type: TV
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Title: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Character: Col. Thorne
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: TV
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Diane
Title: Diane
Character: Chief Huntsman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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The King's Thief
Title: The King's Thief
Character: Beadle (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
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The Snow Creature
Title: The Snow Creature
Character: Peter Wells
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
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Donald's Diary
Title: Donald's Diary
Character: Donald's Internal Monologue / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Donald is writing in his diary and narrating (in a rather sophisticated voice) about his romance with Daisy. She was able to snare him into a relationship in which they got to know each other better and Donald got to meet Daisy's family. Finally, Donald decides to marry Daisy but when waiting for her to arrive so he can pop the question, he falls asleep and has a nightmarish vision of what married life would be like (among other things that he'll be forced to do all the housework and be served a burnt T bone for dinner). Needless to say, the marriage is called off when he awakens.
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The Black Castle
Title: The Black Castle
Character: Sir David Layton (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: 2nd Club Member
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Footman
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Brave Warrior
Title: Brave Warrior
Character: Gen. Proctor / Bancroft
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: John Robinson
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Commander of Corsairs
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Title: The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Character: Constable (Uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
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The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Constable
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Title: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Character: Judge / First Weasel (voice)
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: Judge / First weasel (voice)
Released: May 10, 1949
Type: Movie
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when he's framed for stealing cars by a band of rogue weasels.
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Johnny Stool Pigeon
Title: Johnny Stool Pigeon
Character: Canadian Undercover Man (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Henry Farnsworth
Released: December 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.
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Donald's Dream Voice
Title: Donald's Dream Voice
Character: Suave Donald Duck / Cow (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Donald is trying to sell brushes door-to-door, but since nobody can understand him, nobody will buy anything. He happens across a street vendor selling voice pills. They work great, but he's only got a limited number so of course, the last pill ends up in various inconvenient places.
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The Cobra Strikes
Title: The Cobra Strikes
Character: Morton--New Butler
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
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The Black Arrow
Title: The Black Arrow
Character: Sir William Catesby
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
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A Woman's Vengeance
Title: A Woman's Vengeance
Character: Inspector (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1948
Type: Movie
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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A Double Life
Title: A Double Life
Character: Actor in "Othello"
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Sergeant Schubeck
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
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Singapore
Title: Singapore
Character: Dr. Chalcomb (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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Donald's Double Trouble
Title: Donald's Double Trouble
Character: Donald Duck's Look-a-Like (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Daisy tells Donald he has to improve his English and manners before she'll see him again. Fortunately, an exact double with an English accent, clear speech, and impeccable manners happens by. Donald talks him into posing as Donald, but grows increasingly jealous as Daisy hugs and kisses the stranger.
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Character: Allan-A-Dale
Released: February 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
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Three Strangers
Title: Three Strangers
Character: Detective
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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How DOooo You Do
Title: How DOooo You Do
Character: Agent
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Mr. Sheridan (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Escape in the Fog
Title: Escape in the Fog
Character: Hilary Gale (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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Hangover Square
Title: Hangover Square
Released: February 7, 1945
Type: Movie
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Barnsdale, in Play
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Frenchman's Creek
Title: Frenchman's Creek
Character: John Nankervis (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1944
Type: Movie
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
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The Return of the Vampire
Title: The Return of the Vampire
Character: Detective Lynch
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Pilot
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: British Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
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Five Graves to Cairo
Title: Five Graves to Cairo
Character: British Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Rob Slocumb
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Counter-Espionage
Title: Counter-Espionage
Character: Harvey Leeds
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: British Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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They Raid by Night
Title: They Raid by Night
Character: Capt. Ralph Deane
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
The British Commandos send Bob Owen to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken and Harry. Inga, a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter, betrays their hiding place.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Night Controller
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Bombs Over Burma
Title: Bombs Over Burma
Character: Sir Roger Howe
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: English Officer
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Paul (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Elvan
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Flight Lieutenant Tyler (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Charlie Chan in Rio
Title: Charlie Chan in Rio
Character: Rice the Butler (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: English Father
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
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Escape to Glory
Title: Escape to Glory
Character: Ship's Mate Jones
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.