Frank LaRue

Frank LaRue

Born: December 5, 1878
Died: September 26, 1960
in Ridgeway, Ohio, USA
Frank LaRue was born on December 5, 1878 in Ridgeway, Ohio, USA as Frank Herman LaRue. He was an actor, known for Boothill Brigade (1937), Sidewalks of New York (1931) and Mesquite Buckaroo (1939). He was married to Elsie May Payne. He died on September 26, 1960 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Movies for Frank LaRue...

Courtin' Trouble
Title: Courtin' Trouble
Character: Judge Madison
Released: November 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wakely a lawman goes undrrcover with a singing job at Dawson's saloon....
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The Sheriff of Medicine Bow
Title: The Sheriff of Medicine Bow
Character: Jim Carson
Released: October 2, 1948
Type: Movie
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Range Renegades
Title: Range Renegades
Character: Marshal Laramie Jordan
Released: June 6, 1948
Type: Movie
After Marshal Jordan is honored by Jimmy, Cannonball and others for his forty years as a law officer, the Sawyer mine is blown up by Belle's foreman, Kern, following Sawyer's refusal to sell out. Dan Jordan, the Marshal's son, interested in Belle, secretly the head of the outlaws, is lured by her from scouting the road on which his father guards a ore shipment. Jimmy and Cannonball drive off the outlaws, headed by Kern and Burton, but the Marshal is fatally wounded. The town council appoints Jimmy the new Marshal, which disappoints Dan, but Belle persuades him to become Jimmy's deputy, in order to get information from him about ore and payroll shipments. Dan quits as deputy and fights Jimmy when the latter suspects Belle of involvement in the robberies.
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The Fuller Brush Man
Title: The Fuller Brush Man
Character: Irate Radio-Listener (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
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Frontier Agent
Title: Frontier Agent
Character: Dell Carson
Released: May 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown is sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang.
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Whirlwind Raiders
Title: Whirlwind Raiders
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
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Crossed Trails
Title: Crossed Trails
Character: Judge
Released: April 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A cowboy frees a rancher framed for murder by outlaws after his ranch.
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Oklahoma Blues
Title: Oklahoma Blues
Character: Judge Emerson
Released: March 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy named Jimmy ends up posing as an outlaw called "the Melody Kid" after his big-mouthed friend Cannonball spreads tall tales.
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Song of the Drifter
Title: Song of the Drifter
Character: Turner
Released: January 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy joins Cannonball on a visit to the widow Fennamore, Cannonball's old girlfriend, at Firehole. Engineer Colton is killed by henchman Smoky Morgan and Philip Judson hides the body. The engineer, at the request of the widow's niece, Martha, had come to inspect a polluted reservoir. Land Company head Turner and Judson contaminated the water to get the ranchers to vacate so they can grab the land. Judson hires Easy to pose as the engineer, and he reports the reservoir useless but Jimmy's test proves the waters are not deeply polluted. Judson kills Easy to keep him from talking, and casts the blame on Cannonball. But Jimmy has a trick up his sleeve, right after the next song.
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Gun Talk
Title: Gun Talk
Character: Simpson - Banker (as Frank La Rue)
Released: December 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see her sister. Two outlaws next try to jump the miner's claim.
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Prairie Express
Title: Prairie Express
Character: Jarrett
Released: October 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer. Having saved his old friend Faro Jenkins and young Dave Porter from marauding outlaws, Ranger Johnny Hudson learns that the attack may be part of a concerted effort by bandits to drive Dave's sister Peggy out of the freight business. Unbeknownst to Johnny and the Porters, the crimes are committed on behalf of local banker Gordon Gregg who wants to bankrupt the freight business in order to take over the valuable Porter ranch.
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The Law Comes to Gunsight
Title: The Law Comes to Gunsight
Character: Mayor Jim Blaine
Released: May 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Like a new broom, Brown sweeps clean, going after the town's corrupt element.
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Law of the Canyon
Title: Law of the Canyon
Character: Dentist Kay (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Freight wagons are being stolen and ransomed back to their owners. Government agent Steve Langtry (and his alter ego the Durango Kid) is sent break up the Hood Gang that's behind the robberies.
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Raiders of the South
Title: Raiders of the South
Character: Judge Fry
Released: January 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the reconstruction years to obtain evidence against a gang of raiders who have been making life difficult for the local carpet-baggers. He saves the life of Shorty Kendall, an unreconstructed rebel about to be hanged, and this wins him the gratitude of Belle Chambers, a widow whose husband was killed in the Civil War who hates all Yankees with a fever.
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Silver Range
Title: Silver Range
Character: Steve Ferguson (as Frank La Rue)
Released: November 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram, which co-stars perennial old-timer Raymond Hatton as a retired U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a rancher. As the two old friends soon learn, a gang of smugglers headed by the town's banker (Frank LaRue) needs the use of the Flying Arrow Ranch for their nefarious purposes.
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Under Arizona Skies
Title: Under Arizona Skies
Character: Jim Simpson
Released: May 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Dusty Smith arrives and takes a job on a ranch that is losing cattle to rustlers. When the rustlers strike again the cattle cannot be found but Dusty shoots one of the rustlers. Arrested for murder, Dusty is broken out of jail and the real outlaws put in the cell. Dusty then has them released figuring they will lead him to the hideout and the missing cattle.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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The Gay Cavalier
Title: The Gay Cavalier
Character: Graham
Released: March 30, 1946
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission. His task is made easier once he learns that the "wealthy" suitor (Tristram Coffin) is also the man behind the gold robbers.
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Frontier Gunlaw
Title: Frontier Gunlaw
Character: Sheriff Kincaid
Released: January 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Jim Stewart comes to Mesa City and buys a ranch from publisher Matt Edwards, who is confined to a wheelchair. The area is terrorized by an outlaw gang known as The Phantoms. When Jim's cattle herd is rustled and his ranch foreman Pop Evans killed, he takes an active hand against the gang in his guise as the Durango Kid.
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Border Bandits
Title: Border Bandits
Character: John Halliday
Released: January 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of crooks whose hideout is on the other side of the Mexican border. Aiding Brown in his task are faithful sidekicks Raymond Hatton and Riley Hill. For reasons unknown, Brown is allowed to sing on occasion, despite the indifference of millions. Border Bandits benefits from the assured direction of veteran horse-opera helmsman Lambert Hillyer. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/border-bandits-v6698#KZjtZou6qvrzIxzI.99
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Frontier Feud
Title: Frontier Feud
Character: Banker Chalmers
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada and his grizzled sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) are US marshals posing as drifters. Rancher Joe (Dennis Moore) is accused of a series of murders, but Nevada and Sandy manage to prove that another man is the guilty party.
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The Lost Trail
Title: The Lost Trail
Character: Mine Owner Jones
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the stagecoach line is pretty Jane Burns (Jennifer Holt).
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Blazing the Western Trail
Title: Blazing the Western Trail
Character: Postal Inspector Spencer
Released: September 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Stage line owner Brent has his men robbing Halliday stages and when his manager Waring learns of it, Brent has him killed. Jeff Waring arrives and takes his uncle's job. He soon learns what's happening and the Durango Kid goes into action. This keeps Halliday going and gives them a chance to get the mail contract by winning the stagecoach race.
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Ghost Guns
Title: Ghost Guns
Character: Judge Kelbro
Released: November 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Hairdresser (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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West of the Rio Grande
Title: West of the Rio Grande
Character: Judge Darcy (as Frank La Rue)
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Two-fisted cowboys fight for law and order in their encounters with outlaws.
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The Last Horseman
Title: The Last Horseman
Character: Rance Williams (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
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Devil Riders
Title: Devil Riders
Character: Tom Farrell
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.
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Robin Hood of the Range
Title: Robin Hood of the Range
Character: Carter
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
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Frontier Law
Title: Frontier Law
Character: Sam Vernon
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to restore the reputation of a friend wrongly accused of murder.
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Saddles and Sagebrush
Title: Saddles and Sagebrush
Character: Lafe Parker
Released: April 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his henchmen, led by Ace Barco; when Lafe Martin objects, the outlaws shoot him down. Lucky Randall promises Ann Martin he will avenge her wounded father. He sets up headquarters on the Martin ranch and sends for Bob Merritt and his men, the Texas Playboys (Jesse Ashlock, Leon McAuliffe, Cotton Thompson, Junior Barnard and Luke Wills). Krag organizes his remaining men for an attack on the ranch. Lucky's men get the upper hand but Krag escapes with Ann as his hostage.
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Trail Riders
Title: Trail Riders
Character: Banker Jamison
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary's brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole's orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole's involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Weather Bureau Man
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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The Cyclone Kid
Title: The Cyclone Kid
Character: Marshal Jack
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious means. The brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a range war between homesteaders and a crooked cattleman.
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Lawless Plainsmen
Title: Lawless Plainsmen
Character: Bill Mason
Released: March 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
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A Missouri Outlaw
Title: A Missouri Outlaw
Character: Randall
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decides to use his bad reputation to his advantage by infiltrating the criminal gang.
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The Gunman From Bodie
Title: The Gunman From Bodie
Character: Jud Mason
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
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Prairie Stranger
Title: Prairie Stranger
Character: Jim Dawson
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.
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The Iron Claw
Title: The Iron Claw
Character: Inspector Cramer
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Marshal Clint Russell
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Hands Across the Rockies
Title: Hands Across the Rockies
Character: Rufe Crawley
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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Robbers of the Range
Title: Robbers of the Range
Character: Frank Higgins
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
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Riders of Black Mountain
Title: Riders of Black Mountain
Character: Judge Harper
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the outlaws. So he sets up a fake shipment knowing that if the stage is robbed the contact person will be identiifed. But the day the stage is due the Sheriff arrests the gang Tim was expecting to do the robbery.
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Beyond the Sacramento
Title: Beyond the Sacramento
Character: Jeff Adams
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Title: Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Character: Robert O'Brien
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
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Billy the Kid in Texas
Title: Billy the Kid in Texas
Character: Jim Morgan
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico jail. He escapes and meets his pal, Fuzzy Jones, in Corral City, Texas, which is taking a holiday to allow the cowpunchers of the Lazy A Ranch their periodic spree. In the saloon, Billy is recognized by Dave Hendricks and Flash, two the Lazy A's bed men, as the rider who had held them up after they had robbed the express wagon a few hours earlier. Outside, Billy is ambushed and slightly wounded, and is taken to the express office by Jim Morgan where Mary Barton, the local agent, agrees to tend him until the doctor arrives. Billy turns over the loot he took from the outlaws and he is appointed sheriff, with Fuzzy as his deputy. The Lazy A gang brings in a noted gunfighter, Gil Cooper, who turns out to be Billy's brother. Billy, Gil and Fuzzy eventually rout the outlaw gang, and Gil remains behind with Mary as Billy and Fuzzy ride off.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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The Range Busters
Title: The Range Busters
Character: Doc Stengle
Released: August 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
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Arizona Frontier
Title: Arizona Frontier
Character: Farley
Released: August 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A government agent uncovers the truth behind a series of raids on a freight company.
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Roll Wagons Roll
Title: Roll Wagons Roll
Character: Benson
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The Army sends Tex Masters to find out who is supplying Indians with military guns.
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The Durango Kid
Title: The Durango Kid
Character: Sam Lowry
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the decent citizens with his gang of rustlers.
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Haunted House
Title: Haunted House
Character: Mr. Brown
Released: July 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Deputy
Released: July 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The dangerous Ceegareet gang has control of Boom Town. No miner with rich diggings is safe from this murderous gang. Tex Roberts and his pal Slim Hunkafeller strike a pay vein and find themselves marked as the gang's next victims.
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The Return of Wild Bill
Title: The Return of Wild Bill
Character: Ole Mitch
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Land of the Six Guns
Title: Land of the Six Guns
Character: John Howard
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profit. When Jack Rowan arrives and buys the vacant ranch used by Stone to sneak his cattle across the border, Stone sends out his henchmen to finish Jack off.
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
Title: The Courageous Dr. Christian
Character: Stanley
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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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Joel Madison
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Commissioner Ralph Weston
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Westbound Stage
Title: Westbound Stage
Character: Colonel Hale
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
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Oklahoma Terror
Title: Oklahoma Terror
Character: Fleeing Rancher
Released: August 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he gives it to them and then has them killed. Jack arrives and learns that Mason and his men are the culprits but that they have a boss. He suspects Cartwright and sets trap to expose him.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Bartley
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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Riders of the Sage
Title: Riders of the Sage
Character: Jim Martin
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help from the gang known as the Riders of the Sage.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Luke Shaver
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Down the Wyoming Trail
Title: Down the Wyoming Trail
Character: McClellan
Released: June 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tex arrives on the Parker ranch on Christman eve and is given the job of being Santa Claus. Also dressed as Santa Claus, Blackie robs Parker and kills a man. When Tex is arrested for the murder, he escapes and joins up with outlaw Becker and his gang. He finds Blackie's Santa Claus suit but is soon made a prisoner.
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Mesquite Buckaroo
Title: Mesquite Buckaroo
Character: Jim Bond
Released: April 30, 1939
Type: Movie
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
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Trigger Smith
Title: Trigger Smith
Character: Mr. Mason
Released: March 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
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Smoky Trails
Title: Smoky Trails
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
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Sundown on the Prairie
Title: Sundown on the Prairie
Character: Graham
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
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In Old Montana
Title: In Old Montana
Character: Theodore Jason
Released: February 5, 1939
Type: Movie
The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a two man medicine show, they quickly become involved. When Fred tries to bring the two sides together, Joe Allison is shot and Fred blamed. With Fred in jail and a lynch mob on the way, Doc tries to break his friend out.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Orbison's Boss
Released: January 18, 1939
Type: Movie
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.
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Feud of the Range
Title: Feud of the Range
Character: Harvey Allen
Released: January 15, 1939
Type: Movie
In an attempt to drive out settlers of the Los Trancos valley, through which the railroad proposes to run a line, railroad representative Clyde Barton conspires with Dirk to cause a range war between the two largest ranchers, Tom Gray and Harvey Allen.
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Trigger Pals
Title: Trigger Pals
Character: Gates
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Kent wants the Allen ranch. So he has Steve and his men rustle their cattle using Pete as an informant. When the Trigger Pals Lucky, Stormy, and Fuzzy fight back, Kent frames Stormy for the rustling.
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Code of the Fearless
Title: Code of the Fearless
Character: Mr. Morrison
Released: January 5, 1939
Type: Movie
When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans that will enable the Rangers to bring them all in. But his message to the Captain is intercepted and the hoax revealed.
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Fangs of the Wild
Title: Fangs of the Wild
Character: The Chief
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Foxes are disappearing from fox farms.
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Song of the Buckaroo
Title: Song of the Buckaroo
Character: Rev. Bayliss
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Grand Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Sheriff Armstrong
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Overland Stage Raiders
Title: Overland Stage Raiders
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
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Frontier Scout
Title: Frontier Scout
Character: Mr. Norris
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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The Mexicali Kid
Title: The Mexicali Kid
Character: Tom Barnes
Released: September 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Pa Benton
Released: July 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
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Tell Your Children
Title: Tell Your Children
Character: Bill's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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Songs and Bullets
Title: Songs and Bullets
Character: Mr. Morgan
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
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Knight of the Plains
Title: Knight of the Plains
Character: J.C. Rand, Gale's Father
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
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Outlaws of Sonora
Title: Outlaws of Sonora
Character: Coroner
Released: April 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Outlaws of Sonora is a 1938 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.
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Code of the Rangers
Title: Code of the Rangers
Character: Sheriff Dave Sage
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
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Race Suicide
Title: Race Suicide
Character: Coroner
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into having illegal abortions.
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Colorado Kid
Title: Colorado Kid
Character: Toles
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Hines kills the Colonel for his money, the Colorado Kid is arrested and then found guilt of the murder. Bibben beaks him out of jail and later identifies some of the bills spent by Hines to have been part of the money stolen from the Colonel. The Kid now knows he is the one he is after and heads out to get a confession.
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The Fighting Deputy
Title: The Fighting Deputy
Character: Sheriff Bentley
Released: December 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry, and when the Sheriff is wounded she makes Tom refuse the job of Sheriff. But when Scar kills his father, Tom puts on the badge and takes out after him.
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Danger Valley
Title: Danger Valley
Character: Pappy Temple
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana tries to kick the Temple group off their land. But Jack and sidekick Lucky are on hand and plan to help them fight back.
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Boothill Brigade
Title: Boothill Brigade
Character: Jeff Reynolds
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Rancher Reynolds has fired his men and hired killers and is now using a crooked land deal to put the other ranchers off their land. Calico finds the reason why when he runs into his old nemesis Porter.
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A Lawman Is Born
Title: A Lawman Is Born
Character: Graham
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
An outlaw falsely accused of murder realizes the only way to clear himself is to become a lawman.
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Public Cowboy No. 1
Title: Public Cowboy No. 1
Character: The Judge (as Frank La Rue)
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Deputies Gene Autry and Frog go up against modern cattle rustlers. These rustlers use technology such as, airplanes, radios and refrigerated trucks to steal the cows, butcher them in the field and ship them out before getting caught. This causes the town to bring in a modern NYC detective to catch the crooks, but will Autry and Frog be permanently out of a job?
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Moonlight on the Range
Title: Moonlight on the Range
Character: Jedd Brooks
Released: June 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Tom "Killer" Dane kills Jeff's friend, who then pursues him. Jeff and Dane are look-alike half brothers, which allows Dane to make a raid dressed like Jeff. Jeff is arrested, but before Dane's henchman can organize a lynch mob, Fuzzy breaks him out and Jeff heads after Dane again.
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The Fighting Texan
Title: The Fighting Texan
Character: Joe Walton
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rancher finds that his stock of horses is mysteriously being depleted, and discovers that a ranch near him has had a sudden upsurge in its horse population.
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Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Title: Gun Lords of Stirrup Basin
Character: Boone Dawson
Released: May 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the homesteaders land when they are wiped out. Rancher Dan Stockton, having just married homesteader Gail Dawson, is caught in the middle. He suspects Bowdre is behind the war and it's not long before he gets a chance to prove it.
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You Can't Buy Luck
Title: You Can't Buy Luck
Character: Mr. Brand (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Bar-Z Bad Men
Title: Bar-Z Bad Men
Character: Hamp Harvey
Released: April 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Waters arrives at Ed Parks' ranch to find Parks' cattle herd mysteriously increased. Hamp Harvey has been losing cattle and he suspects Parks. But the culprit is Harvey's foreman Brent who gets his orders from the town's leading citizen Sig Barstell. Barstell wants Harvey's ranch and after trying to frame Harvey by killing Parks, Waters takes over and goes after both the killer and the rustlers.
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Left-Handed Law
Title: Left-Handed Law
Character: John Golden
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
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Trail of Vengeance
Title: Trail of Vengeance
Character: Tilden
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted outlaw Dude Ramsey arrives and joins up with Tilden. First he saves the ranchers from Carson's trap and then exposes Pearson as Carson's informant and killer of Steve Warner.
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Lightnin' Crandall
Title: Lightnin' Crandall
Character: Wes Shannon
Released: March 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Smashing the Vice Trust
Title: Smashing the Vice Trust
Character: Mr. Bacon
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his henchmen get new, younger and prettier girls for his bordellos.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Slavemaster
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Title: The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Judge Holmes
Released: July 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Moore - Banker
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Colonel Seward
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Al Gordon
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Prisoner
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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The Throwback
Title: The Throwback
Character: Tom Fergus
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still carrying the burden of his father's reputation. When he is framed for rustling, he finds an object that identifies Milt Fergus, the brother of his girl friend, as the rustler. Getting bailed out of jail he and his Uncle Ford have a plan to trap Milt.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Detective Burke
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Immigration Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Motive for Revenge
Title: Motive for Revenge
Character: Warden
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
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When a Man Sees Red
Title: When a Man Sees Red
Character: Radcliffe - Lawyer
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Our hero tries to dissuade a pretty ranch owner from taking up with an unsavory character to no avail. Eventually, the lout proves himself to be a thief and a liar, out to wrest the ranch owner's property away from her.
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Marie Galante
Title: Marie Galante
Character: Port Inspector
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
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High School Girl
Title: High School Girl
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama, a teenage boy and girl, tired of parental repression, begin sneaking out on dates and to parties. The parents are strict, but pay little real attention to their kids, therefore the kids turn to their high school biology teacher who is willing to really listen to their confidences.
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The Fighting Ranger
Title: The Fighting Ranger
Character: Ranger Captain Wilkes
Released: March 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own. He ends up just below the Mexican border, where bandit leader Cougar (Bradley Page) lives high off the hog, knowing he can't be extradited.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Townsman
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: Sergeant Muldoon
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Hord
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Flying Devils
Title: Flying Devils
Character: Al Kern
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: Kelly
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Fighting Texans
Title: Fighting Texans
Character: Mr Whimple
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 Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Rancher Hall
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Parole Girl
Title: Parole Girl
Character: Detective Mallory
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Sheriff Rand
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Senator
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Once in a Lifetime
Title: Once in a Lifetime
Character: The Bishop
Released: October 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Police Academy Training Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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The Beast of the City
Title: The Beast of the City
Character: Policeman #3 on Telephone (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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Law of the Sea
Title: Law of the Sea
Character: Seaman
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
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Sidewalks of New York
Title: Sidewalks of New York
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.