Jack Gardner

Jack Gardner

Born: December 13, 1902
Died: February 13, 1977
in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Movies for Jack Gardner...

Mark of the Witch
Title: Mark of the Witch
Character: Harry
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
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A Medal for Benny
Title: A Medal for Benny
Character: Cameraman / Red (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Reporter at Trial (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Murder in the Blue Room
Title: Murder in the Blue Room
Character: Lewis, Booking Agent (Uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Fred, the District Attorney's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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One Mysterious Night
Title: One Mysterious Night
Character: Frank (Uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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Strangers in the Night
Title: Strangers in the Night
Character: Medical Corpsman
Released: September 12, 1944
Type: Movie
In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Clerk
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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What a Man!
Title: What a Man!
Character: "Trigger" Boyle
Released: January 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Three Russian Girls
Title: Three Russian Girls
Character: Misha
Released: December 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Radio Man (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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Mystery Broadcast
Title: Mystery Broadcast
Character: Radio Technician (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Plant Guard (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Signalman
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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Larceny with Music
Title: Larceny with Music
Character: Customer
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Stagehand
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Sailor
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Title: Hi Diddle Diddle
Character: Reporter #1 (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
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Honeymoon Lodge
Title: Honeymoon Lodge
Character: Waiter
Released: July 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Jim Bramwell
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Seaman (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Booker
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Newsreel Photographer (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Something to Shout About
Title: Something to Shout About
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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No Place for a Lady
Title: No Place for a Lady
Character: Reporter #2 at June's office
Released: February 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Ring Announcer
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: Captain Yoshido [Chs. 1-3]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Who's Superstitious?
Title: Who's Superstitious?
Character: Man in Friday the 13th Sequence
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Attendant
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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Fall In
Title: Fall In
Character: Soldier reminding Ames
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Hospital Intern (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
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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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Reporter
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: F. Wolper
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: Unspecified Gambler
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Reporter
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Reporter
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Reporter (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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Cadets on Parade
Title: Cadets on Parade
Character: Photographer
Released: January 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended by a newsboy and they tutor each other, but soon get embroiled in a ransom scheme.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: Photographer
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Henchman
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: First Photographer
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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The Spider Returns
Title: The Spider Returns
Character: Poppy - the Bartender
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Emergency Landing
Title: Emergency Landing
Character: Radio Operator on Plane
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Man Pushing Wheelchair (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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Maisie Was a Lady
Title: Maisie Was a Lady
Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Title: Dark Streets of Cairo
Character: First Photographer
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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Wildcat Bus
Title: Wildcat Bus
Character: Parking Lot Attendant (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Messenger with Orchid (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Jake's Friend in Diner
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Isle Of Destiny
Title: Isle Of Destiny
Character: Radio Man
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Professor Gordon's Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: Joe
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Title: The Lone Wolf Strikes
Character: Gossiping Cabbie
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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His Girl Friday
Title: His Girl Friday
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Soldier at Ordnance Magazine #4 (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Torture Ship
Title: Torture Ship
Character: Reporter
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Tim (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Reporter with Vivian (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Ace's Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Prof. Huer's Lab Assistant
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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A Ducking They Did Go
Title: A Ducking They Did Go
Character: Doyle (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
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Star Reporter
Title: Star Reporter
Character: Gil Blake
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Mechanic
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Convict (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: Photographer
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
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Personal Secretary
Title: Personal Secretary
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Father
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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The Nurse from Brooklyn
Title: The Nurse from Brooklyn
Character: Cab Driver
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Convict
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Delivery Man (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Juror
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Clerk
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Intern
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Reporter
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Border Cafe
Title: Border Cafe
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Reporter
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Reporter
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Henchman Spike
Released: June 7, 1936
Type: Movie
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Three of a Kind
Title: Three of a Kind
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: May 19, 1936
Type: Movie
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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Devil's Squadron
Title: Devil's Squadron
Character: Reporter
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Photographer
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Reporter
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Skybound
Title: Skybound
Character: Patrol Flyer
Released: September 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
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Wild Geese
Title: Wild Geese
Character: Skuli
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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Blondes by Choice
Title: Blondes by Choice
Character: Jones, the Valet
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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To the Ladies
Title: To the Ladies
Character: Bob Cutter
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Title: Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Bat Masterson
Released: December 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Jack Gardner
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Men of the Desert
Title: Men of the Desert
Character: Jack
Released: September 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where cattlemen and sheepmen often dealt out death to each other with the aid of their old friends, Winchester and Colt. Such a feud is in progress between the men of the desert when Jack, a nomadic cowboy, wanders into the scene. He is outspoken against the outlawry, and the sheriff, in jest, hands him his badge and asks him if he can do any better. Jack accepts the challenge and arrests one of the most recent slayers.
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The Land of Long Shadows
Title: The Land of Long Shadows
Character: Joe Mauchin
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
The Land of Long Shadows is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. It marked the directorial debut of Van Dyke. Joe Mauchin meets Jeanne Verette. He is a trapper, come down to the little post of Mead's Pocket, a vicious mining town, for supplies. She, the daughter of a saloonkeeper who compels her to "drum up trade" among his maudlin patrons. Joe falls in love with Jeanne.
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The Night Workers
Title: The Night Workers
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie