Al Bridge

Al Bridge

Born: February 25, 1891
Died: December 27, 1957
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Al Bridge was an American character actor, a fixture both in Westerns and in the comedies of Preston Sturges.

Although frequently billed as Alan Bridge, he was born Alfred Morton Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1891 (not as Alford Bridge in 1890, as his tombstone erroneously states).

Following service as a corporal in the U.S. Army infantry in the first World War, Bridge joined a theatrical troupe. He dabbled in writing and in 1930 sold a script to a short film, Her Hired Husband (1930). He followed this with a B-Western script, God's Country and the Man (1931), in which he made his film debut as an actor.

For the next quarter century, he managed the atypical achievement of maintaining a career in both B-Westerns and in bigger dramatic and comedy features. Ten films for director Preston Sturges represent probably his most familiar contribution to Hollywood history. Bridge also appeared frequently on television until his death in 1957 at 66.

Movies for Al Bridge...

Hell's Outpost
Title: Hell's Outpost
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
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Jubilee Trail
Title: Jubilee Trail
Character: Mr. Turner (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.
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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Title: Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: March 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
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Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Walt Stone
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: TV
Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
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Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Pop Wade
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: TV
Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Marshal
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: Homesteader McGraw
Released: July 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
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We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Detective Magnus (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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The Last Musketeer
Title: The Last Musketeer
Character: Lem Shaver
Released: March 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Cattle buyer Rex Allen rides into Taskerville and sees two men toss Slim Pickens, a water diviner hired by the local ranchers, into a wagon. Rex chases the wagon to the barn of rancher Lem Shaver, where he learns from Slim that Russ Tasker, a wealthy rancher and owner of the only artesian-fed reservoir in the valley, has charged such high prices for water that the ranchers are bankrupt. Tasker's henchmen kill rancher Matt Becker and have his son Johnny branded as an outlaw. Rex learns that the Beckers had found a meager water supply and Rex suspects that is what led to the killing and the charges against Johnny. With the aid of Slim and Johnny's sweetheart, Sue, Rex finds that the Becker spring is fed from the same underground lake that feeds Tasker's well-guarded reservoir. But Rex is jailed for aiding Johnny.
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Utah Wagon Train
Title: Utah Wagon Train
Character: Sam Sickle
Released: October 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
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All That I Have
Title: All That I Have
Character: John Biddle
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Hunt the Man Down
Title: Hunt the Man Down
Character: Ulysses Grant Sheldon (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
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California Passage
Title: California Passage
Character: Conover
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
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Title: The Gene Autry Show
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 23, 1950
Type: TV
The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
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Squadron of Doom
Title: Squadron of Doom
Character: Wyckoff
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Devil's Henchman
Title: The Devil's Henchman
Character: Elmer Hood
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Title: The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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Unfaithfully Yours
Title: Unfaithfully Yours
Character: House Detective
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
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Quick on the Trigger
Title: Quick on the Trigger
Character: Judge Kormac
Released: December 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins when ousted sheriff Steve Warren (Starrett) is put on trial for the murder of heroine Nora Reed's (Helen Parrish) brother. Steve is innocent, of course, but he doesn't stand a chance against prosecuting attorney Garvey Yager (Lyle Talbot) -- especially since Yager is the real killer.
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Silver River
Title: Silver River
Character: Sam Slade
Released: May 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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T-Men
Title: T-Men
Character: Agent in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Dr. Jonas - Veterinarian
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Fabulous Joe
Title: The Fabulous Joe
Character: Florida Club Bartender
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
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Down to Earth
Title: Down to Earth
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Title: Robin Hood Of Texas
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Title: Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Character: Mr. Cudd (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Title: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Character: Wild Bill Hickock
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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The Mighty McGurk
Title: The Mighty McGurk
Character: Toothless Derelict (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters' 1946 period comedy, set in New York's Bowery, stars Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Aline MacMahon, Edward Arnold, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick, Aubrey Mather, Clinton Sundberg, Milton Parsons, Morris Ankrum and Oliver Blake.
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Singin' in the Corn
Title: Singin' in the Corn
Character: Honest John Richards
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance
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Alias Mr. Twilight
Title: Alias Mr. Twilight
Character: Sam Bartlett
Released: December 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Cross My Heart
Title: Cross My Heart
Character: Detective Flynn
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Turner
Released: August 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
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Shadows Over Chinatown
Title: Shadows Over Chinatown
Character: Captain Allen
Released: June 27, 1946
Type: Movie
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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The Falcon's Alibi
Title: The Falcon's Alibi
Character: Police Inspector Blake
Released: April 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Detective Smiley (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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Road to Utopia
Title: Road to Utopia
Character: Ship Captain (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1946
Type: Movie
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Lieutenant Colonel (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Title: She Wouldn't Say Yes
Character: Conductor (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Soule Gang Engineer (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Salty O'Rourke
Title: Salty O'Rourke
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
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Thunderhead - Son of Flicka
Title: Thunderhead - Son of Flicka
Character: Dr. Hicks
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Cheap Charlie (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
Title: Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask
Character: Sheriff Mack
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum. When the scientist is killed, Chan must sort through all very likely suspects, including the man's sister and his butler.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Deputy Sheriff Ben (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Title: Hail the Conquering Hero
Character: Political Boss
Released: August 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Nobody's Darling
Title: Nobody's Darling
Character: Bum (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Jailer
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Title: Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Character: Matt Warner
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to prevent the building of the road.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Second Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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A Man's World
Title: A Man's World
Character: Captain Peterson
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Conductor
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Bad Men of the Hills
Title: Bad Men of the Hills
Character: Mace Arnold
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Police Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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In This Our Life
Title: In This Our Life
Character: Worker (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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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Trustee
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Man
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Pardon My Stripes
Title: Pardon My Stripes
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Fighting Bill Fargo
Title: Fighting Bill Fargo
Character: Tom Houston
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of rubbing out any and all honest candidates for the sheriff's office.
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Sullivan's Travels
Title: Sullivan's Travels
Character: The Mister
Released: November 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Townsman at Meeting House
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Plainview Lawman
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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The Little Foxes
Title: The Little Foxes
Character: Dawson (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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Rawhide Rangers
Title: Rawhide Rangers
Character: Rawlings
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.
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Law of the Range
Title: Law of the Range
Character: Jamison
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Captain of Police
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Mr. Matthews
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: First Steward (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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The Kid's Last Ride
Title: The Kid's Last Ride
Character: Bob Harmon / Jim Breeden
Released: February 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.
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The Lone Rider Rides On
Title: The Lone Rider Rides On
Character: Bob Cameron
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child at the time, he vividly remembers the scar on the ringleader's face -- and Tom will stop at nothing until he brings him to justice … and exacts vengeance.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Mr. Hillbeiner
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Captain
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Slave Trader
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Blazing Six Shooters
Title: Blazing Six Shooters
Character: Bert Karsin
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
Title: The Courageous Dr. Christian
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
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Pioneers of the Frontier
Title: Pioneers of the Frontier
Character: Marshal Larsen
Released: February 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Barfly Drinking Straight Whiskey (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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The Stranger from Texas
Title: The Stranger from Texas
Character: Jeff Browning
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Ship Captain (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: Senator Dwight (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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Oklahoma Frontier
Title: Oklahoma Frontier
Character: Kentuck
Released: October 9, 1939
Type: Movie
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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The Man from Sundown
Title: The Man from Sundown
Character: Slick Larson
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
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Sons of Liberty
Title: Sons of Liberty
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
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Blue Montana Skies
Title: Blue Montana Skies
Character: Marshal
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling operation near the Canadian border.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Dynamo Room Floor Guard
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Romance of the Redwoods
Title: Romance of the Redwoods
Character: Boss Whittaker
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Would-Be Settler (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: White Rose Sailor
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Captain of the Guards
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Cpl. Dronov
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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Colorado Trail
Title: Colorado Trail
Character: Mark Sheldon
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Official in Passport Office (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Gunsmoke Trail
Title: Gunsmoke Trail
Character: Sheriff chasing Loma
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Learning of Walters' inheritance, Larson kills him and assumes his identity. When Larson's men try to kill Walter's niece Lola, Jack Lane breaks it up. This leads to a showdown with Jack outnumbered by Larson and his gang. Having saved Loma's life earlier, he has Fuzzy ride for him and his men.
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Crime School
Title: Crime School
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: May 10, 1938
Type: Movie
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
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Two Gun Justice
Title: Two Gun Justice
Character: Sheriff (as Al Bridges)
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement and assigned to clean up the gang. He disguises himself as a Mexican bandit, joins the gang and works from within.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: New Orleans Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (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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Little Miss Roughneck
Title: Little Miss Roughneck
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
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Partners of the Plains
Title: Partners of the Plains
Character: Scar Lewis
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Lorna Drake has inherited a ranch. Hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles Scar Lewis, the bad guy, in the process.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Capt. Trowbridge
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Briggs
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Motor Cop (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Western Gold
Title: Western Gold
Character: Holman (as Alan Bridge)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Policeman in Drina's Apartment (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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They Won't Forget
Title: They Won't Forget
Character: Mob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
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Wild West Days
Title: Wild West Days
Character: Steve Claggett, Henchman
Released: July 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.
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Woman Chases Man
Title: Woman Chases Man
Character: Process Server (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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Two Gun Law
Title: Two Gun Law
Character: Kipp Faulkner
Released: April 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: Dandy Morgan
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Jungle Jim
Title: Jungle Jim
Character: Slade
Released: January 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
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Dodge City Trail
Title: Dodge City Trail
Character: Dawson
Released: December 12, 1936
Type: Movie
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.
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Trail Dust
Title: Trail Dust
Character: Babson
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
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Ace Drummond
Title: Ace Drummond
Character: Paul Wyckoff
Released: October 18, 1936
Type: Movie
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
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The Three Mesquiteers
Title: The Three Mesquiteers
Character: Alden Canfield
Released: September 22, 1936
Type: Movie
When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Detective
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Public Enemy's Wife
Title: Public Enemy's Wife
Character: Swartzman
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
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These Three
Title: These Three
Character: Mrs. Walton's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary, later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.
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Call of the Prairie
Title: Call of the Prairie
Character: Sam Porter
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
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The Lawless Nineties
Title: The Lawless Nineties
Character: Steele
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Henchman Black
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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Fast Bullets
Title: Fast Bullets
Character: Travis
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.
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Gallant Defender
Title: Gallant Defender
Character: Salty Smith
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Munro and his gang control the valley and are driving away all nesters. Johnny arrives, and taking an interest in Barbara McGrail, decides to help the nesters. He receives unexpected help from Barbara's uncle who is posing as Salty Smith, one of Munro's hired guns. Salty thinks Munro killed his brother and is out to get proof.
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A Night at the Opera
Title: A Night at the Opera
Character: Immigration Inspector (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: Kit
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Melody Trail
Title: Melody Trail
Character: Matt Kirby
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
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Valley of Wanted Men
Title: Valley of Wanted Men
Character: Ranger Sergeant Parsons
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: Hanover - Walsh's Henchman
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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Alibi Racket
Title: Alibi Racket
Character: Chief Inspector August Wilmer
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Jail Attendant (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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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Poker Player on Train
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Title: The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Character: Mitchell
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Judge John C. Garfield (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Silent Valley
Title: Silent Valley
Character: Jim Farley
Released: May 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A sheriff tracking a gang of rustlers discovers that one of them is the brother of his fiance.
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: Ditch-Digger (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Transient Lady
Title: Transient Lady
Character: Sheriff Angel Verner
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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North of Arizona
Title: North of Arizona
Character: George Tully
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.
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Outlaw Rule
Title: Outlaw Rule
Character: Deputy Bat Lindstrom
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found dead.
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Mystery Mountain
Title: Mystery Mountain
Character: Tom Henderson
Released: December 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Mover
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Honor of the Range
Title: Honor of the Range
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1934
Type: Movie
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
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Fighting With Kit Carson
Title: Fighting With Kit Carson
Character: Reynolds
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
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Fighting Texans
Title: Fighting Texans
Character: Gur Durkin
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.
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The Lone Avenger
Title: The Lone Avenger
Character: Burl Adams
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
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Son of the Border
Title: Son of the Border
Character: Tupper
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Hack Driver
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
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Sucker Money
Title: Sucker Money
Character: George Hunter
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
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Drum Taps
Title: Drum Taps
Character: Lariat Smith
Released: January 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Denver Ed
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
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When a Man Rides Alone
Title: When a Man Rides Alone
Character: Montana Slade
Released: January 14, 1933
Type: Movie
The Llano Kid is robbing stages but only taking money from Montana Slade's Cottonwood Mine. He then gives the money to those cheated by Slade. The Sheriff is after him and eventually obtains a picture and displays wanted posters and is soon after him.
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The Wyoming Whirlwind
Title: The Wyoming Whirlwind
Character: Steve Cantrell
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A mysterious bandit known as "The Wolf" steals the payroll from a country ranch.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: Henchman Curley Bates
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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The Forty-Niners
Title: The Forty-Niners
Character: Squaw O'Hara
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
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Slightly Married
Title: Slightly Married
Character: Tenant
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
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The Cowboy Counsellor
Title: The Cowboy Counsellor
Character: Sheriff Matt Farraday
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: Bouncer (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Broadway to Cheyenne
Title: Broadway to Cheyenne
Character: Al
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Station Agent
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Secret Emissary #3 (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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A Man's Land
Title: A Man's Land
Character: Steve - Rustler
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their cattle. Tex not only has to fight the rustlers, he must also contend with Easterner Peggy's idea of what a ranch should be.
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The Spirit of the West
Title: The Spirit of the West
Character: Tom Fallon
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
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Police Court
Title: Police Court
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Henchman Wooly
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Galloping Thru
Title: Galloping Thru
Character: Sandy Thompson
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.
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The Ridin' Fool
Title: The Ridin' Fool
Character: Nikkos (as Al Bridges)
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Character: Deputy Bill Gaines
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but Blackie still carries the reputation of a killer. When the townspeople decide Blackie is not a fit guardian for the boy, Jim convinces Blackie to leave the boy with him. But just after Blackie leaves town, the express office is robbed and it is assumed Blackie did it.
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God's Country and the Man
Title: God's Country and the Man
Character: Livermore
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless criminals in the region.