Douglas Spencer

Douglas Spencer

Born: February 10, 1910
Died: October 6, 1960
in Princeton, Illinois, USA

Movies for Douglas Spencer...

The Sins of Rachel Cade
Title: The Sins of Rachel Cade
Character: Doctor Bikel
Released: April 2, 1961
Type: Movie
A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
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Title: The Rebel
Character: Joe Shandell
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: 1st Martian
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Alonzo McFadden
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Kraler
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Title: Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Character: Marshal Fred Woodruff
Released: March 30, 1958
Type: Movie
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
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Saddle the Wind
Title: Saddle the Wind
Character: Hemp Scribner
Released: March 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
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The Three Faces of Eve
Title: The Three Faces of Eve
Character: Mr. Black
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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Short Cut to Hell
Title: Short Cut to Hell
Character: Train Conductor
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit; she tries to convince him to surrender before it's too late.
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Omar Khayyam
Title: Omar Khayyam
Character: Pigeon Keeper
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
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The Unholy Wife
Title: The Unholy Wife
Character: Judge
Released: June 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
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Man from Del Rio
Title: Man from Del Rio
Character: Sheriff Jack Tillman
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?
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Title: Wire Service
Character: Mason
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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Pardners
Title: Pardners
Character: Smith
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
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A Man Alone
Title: A Man Alone
Character: Henry Slocum
Released: October 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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The Kentuckian
Title: The Kentuckian
Character: Frome Brother (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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This Island Earth
Title: This Island Earth
Character: The Monitor of Metaluna
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
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Smoke Signal
Title: Smoke Signal
Character: Garode
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Joe Brock
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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The Raid
Title: The Raid
Character: Rev. Douglas
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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River of No Return
Title: River of No Return
Character: Sam Benson
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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Houdini
Title: Houdini
Character: Simms
Released: July 2, 1953
Type: Movie
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.
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Shane
Title: Shane
Character: Axel 'Swede' Shipstead
Released: April 23, 1953
Type: Movie
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Father Procurator aka George
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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The Glass Wall
Title: The Glass Wall
Character: Inspector Bailey
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
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She's Back on Broadway
Title: She's Back on Broadway
Character: Lew Ludlow
Released: March 14, 1953
Type: Movie
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Dr. Brunner
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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Untamed Frontier
Title: Untamed Frontier
Character: Clayton Vance
Released: July 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Joey (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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Warpath
Title: Warpath
Character: Kelso
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
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Come Fill the Cup
Title: Come Fill the Cup
Character: Ike Bashaw
Released: October 24, 1951
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
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A Place in the Sun
Title: A Place in the Sun
Character: Boatkeeper (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1951
Type: Movie
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
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The Thing from Another World
Title: The Thing from Another World
Character: Ned 'Scotty' Scott
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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The Redhead and The Cowboy
Title: The Redhead and The Cowboy
Character: Perry (Union agent)
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause and has left the territory to deliver a vital message about a Yankee gold shipment. So he sets off in pursuit, running into desperados, government agents, and guerrilla fighters, who are more interested in profit than ideals. Written by Alfred Jingle
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Union Station
Title: Union Station
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Jonas
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Father of the Bride
Title: Father of the Bride
Character: Fritz the Organist (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
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The Heiress
Title: The Heiress
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
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Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Sam Hooker (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
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Follow Me Quietly
Title: Follow Me Quietly
Character: Phony Judge
Released: July 7, 1949
Type: Movie
1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on rainy nights.
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It Happens Every Spring
Title: It Happens Every Spring
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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Bride of Vengeance
Title: Bride of Vengeance
Character: False Physician
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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Alias Nick Beal
Title: Alias Nick Beal
Character: Henry T. Finch
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Title: Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Character: Dr. Ramsdell
Released: August 20, 1948
Type: Movie
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
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The Big Clock
Title: The Big Clock
Character: Bert Finch
Released: March 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
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Adventure Island
Title: Adventure Island
Character: Prisoner sharing cell with Herrick and Lochlin (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
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The Dark Corner
Title: The Dark Corner
Character: Deli Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
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The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: New Years Eve Party Patron (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Double Indemnity
Title: Double Indemnity
Character: Lou Schwartz (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Fall In
Title: Fall In
Character: Military Policeman
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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A Date with the Falcon
Title: A Date with the Falcon
Character: Witness at Accident (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Title: The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Character: Hotel Guest
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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Lady Scarface
Title: Lady Scarface
Character: Police Secretary
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Policeman in Dance Line (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Man Listening to Radio (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Mechanic
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Courtroom Spectator
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Allegheny Uprising
Title: Allegheny Uprising
Character: Prisoner in Irons
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Auction Spectator (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.