Harry Strang

Harry Strang

Born: December 13, 1892
Died: April 10, 1972
in Clifton, Virginia, USA
Harry Strang was an American screen and television actor, his career active from 1929 to 1965.

Movies for Harry Strang...

Cheyenne Autumn
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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North by Northwest
Title: North by Northwest
Character: Assistant Conductor (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Harry (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Title: Bronco
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
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Title: Harbor Command
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: TV
Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to July 4, 1958. The series stars Wendell Corey as Captain Ralph Baxter, an officer of the United States Coast Guard. The series was produced by Ziv Television Programs.
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Looking for Danger
Title: Looking for Danger
Character: Sgt. Watson
Released: October 6, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) fool Nazis and a sultan in North Africa.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: 2nd Workman
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Lab Parking Guard
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The White Squaw
Title: The White Squaw
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Phantom from Space
Title: Phantom from Space
Character: Neighbor
Released: May 15, 1953
Type: Movie
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Town Citizen
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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This Woman Is Dangerous
Title: This Woman Is Dangerous
Character: Taxi Driver / Officer O'Brien (Uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: Traffic Cop (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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The Underworld Story
Title: The Underworld Story
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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The Great Jewel Robber
Title: The Great Jewel Robber
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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The Great Rupert
Title: The Great Rupert
Character: Fire Chief (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: Prison Infirmary Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Policeman with Tramp (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Title: Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Character: Mac
Released: March 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
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Sinister Journey
Title: Sinister Journey
Character: Banks
Released: June 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.
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I, Jane Doe
Title: I, Jane Doe
Character: Policeman
Released: May 25, 1948
Type: Movie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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The Lady from Shanghai
Title: The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Blonde Savage
Title: Blonde Savage
Character: Henchman with Rifle
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall Caucasian blonde woman.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Tim (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Deep Valley
Title: Deep Valley
Character: Posseman
Released: July 30, 1947
Type: Movie
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Title: Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Taylor
Released: March 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Detective in White Hat
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
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Roll on Texas Moon
Title: Roll on Texas Moon
Character: Don Williams
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: Brophy, museum watchman
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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King of the Forest Rangers
Title: King of the Forest Rangers
Character: Hank
Released: April 25, 1946
Type: Movie
An Indian rug is the key to the location of a lost treasure. When the rug's owner is murdered, it becomes a case for Forest Ranger Steve King
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Skycap (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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Pillow of Death
Title: Pillow of Death
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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A Gun in His Hand
Title: A Gun in His Hand
Character: Police Captain R.C. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
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The Falcon in San Francisco
Title: The Falcon in San Francisco
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Prison Guard
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
Title: The Phantom of 42nd Street
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Prison Guard
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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Manhunt of Mystery Island
Title: Manhunt of Mystery Island
Character: Frederick "Fred" Braley
Released: March 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is held and forced to work on diabolical inventions by Captain Mephisto, a costumed villain.
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Birthday Blues
Title: Birthday Blues
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On the way, a sidewalk salesman sells him a fur coat which Leon learns later had been stolen from his neighbor's wife. He tries to sneak the coat back into the apartment but the husband catches him, and Leon is unable to explain why he is there. A lot of rain must fall in Leon's life, and it does, before everything is resolved... somewhat. He still doesn't have a present for Dorothy, a fact that does not go unnoticed by her.
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The Missing Juror
Title: The Missing Juror
Character: Police Sergeant Murphy (Uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Detective (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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Proudly We Serve
Title: Proudly We Serve
Character: Master Sergeant
Released: September 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Sergeant Tex Gordon is surprised to learn that his new gunnery instructor is a woman.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Security Officer (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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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Major Arthur (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Stagehand
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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The Lone Star Trail
Title: The Lone Star Trail
Character: Sheriff Waddell
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Dave, Trustee
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Train Check-in Gateman (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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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Driver (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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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Townsman at Sheriff's Office (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: Honolulu Detective-in-charge [Chs. 10-12]
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 Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: Forest Ranger
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: German Henchman
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Get Hep to Love
Title: Get Hep to Love
Character: Policeman
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Henchman
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 Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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My Gal Sal
Title: My Gal Sal
Character: Bartender
Released: April 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Policeman
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Guard
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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Frisco Lil
Title: Frisco Lil
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Ranger (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Submarine officer
Released: January 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Gas Officer
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Keep 'Em Flying
Title: Keep 'Em Flying
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Doctors Don't Tell
Title: Doctors Don't Tell
Released: September 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Tommy (Foreman Sent to Line 191) (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Detective at Motel (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Chief Commissary Steward (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Police Sgt. Payson (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Mutiny in the Arctic
Title: Mutiny in the Arctic
Character: The Helmsman
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
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That Hamilton Woman
Title: That Hamilton Woman
Character: Ship's Medic (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Character: Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Plainclothesman (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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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Pilot
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Henchman
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Sgt. Callahan
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
Title: Ridin' on a Rainbow
Character: Rancher
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Joe - Henchman
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Phantom Submarine
Title: The Phantom Submarine
Character: Chief Engineer
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Police Officer Davis
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Marching Doughboy (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Deputy Charlie (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Dock Attendant
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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Angels Over Broadway
Title: Angels Over Broadway
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Third Motorcycle Policeman
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Sergeant Clanahan
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Detective Handcuffed to Johnny (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Truck Driver
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Mechanic (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Convict (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Corporal (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Bondsman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Sailor in Cafe
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Explosives Worker (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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Island of Doomed Men
Title: Island of Doomed Men
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Evans (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Minor Role
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Policeman
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Title: Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Character: Seaman Guarding Pendleton
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Doorman at Warden's Office (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Man About to Withdraw Money from Bank
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: Police Sgt. Martin
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Fred - Trucker #2 at Diner (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Army Officer
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Title: Drums of Fu Manchu
Character: Police Lt. Wade at Winchester's Office
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: Jim - Policeman
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Vistor's Room Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Fireman on the 'Clermont'
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Hennessey - Markham's Assistant
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: First Mechanic
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 Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Det. Ballard
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Party Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: First Telegraph Operator
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Boat Captain
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Tom's Aide (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Cowboys from Texas
Title: Cowboys from Texas
Character: Leader of Settlers
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Policeman
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Title: Blondie Brings Up Baby
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Trainman
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Tower Guard
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Bodyguard (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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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Truck Driver
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Shore Patrol Sailor (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: First Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Title: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Character: Taxicab Dispatcher
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Assistant Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Captain
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Girl from Rio
Title: Girl from Rio
Character: Radio Technician
Released: August 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Third Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Guard
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Title: Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Character: Museum Guard O'Hara
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Peck
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Title: The Return of the Cisco Kid
Character: Deputy
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Union Army Officer
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Henchman disguised as Ambulance Attendant
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Police Interrogator
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Star Reporter
Title: Star Reporter
Character: Henchman
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Sergeant at Ambulance
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Pride of the Navy
Title: Pride of the Navy
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
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Convict's Code
Title: Convict's Code
Character: Tony Lynch
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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The Mysterious Miss X
Title: The Mysterious Miss X
Character: Bus Driver
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Deputy Thomas
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Ghost Town Riders
Title: Ghost Town Riders
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly and eventually realizes Gomer is up to something. When Gomer's henchman slips and reveals there is a letter, Bob finds it and heads for the tax collector with Gomer's men in pursuit.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Seaman Grainger
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Jolatar
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Tom (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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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Harris (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Starlight Over Texas
Title: Starlight Over Texas
Character: Deputy Marshal Tom Carr
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
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Army Girl
Title: Army Girl
Character: Soldier
Released: August 11, 1938
Type: Movie
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Man at Calhoun's Auto
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: Cab Driver at Ambush Attempt (Uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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A Criminal Is Born
Title: A Criminal Is Born
Character: Cop
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Henchman Jeff
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: Sgt. Bennett (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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Gunsmoke Trail
Title: Gunsmoke Trail
Character: Henchman Stub
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Learning of Walters' inheritance, Larson kills him and assumes his identity. When Larson's men try to kill Walter's niece Lola, Jack Lane breaks it up. This leads to a showdown with Jack outnumbered by Larson and his gang. Having saved Loma's life earlier, he has Fuzzy ride for him and his men.
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Two Gun Justice
Title: Two Gun Justice
Character: Joe - Henchman
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement and assigned to clean up the gang. He disguises himself as a Mexican bandit, joins the gang and works from within.
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The First Hundred Years
Title: The First Hundred Years
Character: Jerry - the boat workman (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
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The Purple Vigilantes
Title: The Purple Vigilantes
Character: Jim Murphy
Released: January 24, 1938
Type: Movie
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men form a new vigilante group and posing as the original one plunder for loot.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
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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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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The Game That Kills
Title: The Game That Kills
Character: Walter
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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The Women Men Marry
Title: The Women Men Marry
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Joe Pratt
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: FBI Agent
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Officer O'Reilly
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Glover's Man (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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Ranger Courage
Title: Ranger Courage
Character: Snakey Joe
Released: January 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them. But he is captured and his ranger badge used to divert the rangers away leaving the wagon train unprotected.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: I.R.A. Patriot (Uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Encampment Sentry
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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Yellow Cargo
Title: Yellow Cargo
Character: Joe Breeze - Bus Driver
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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The Crime Patrol
Title: The Crime Patrol
Character: Bob's Fight Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Logger (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Los Angeles Jailer
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: General Fremont's Scout
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Title: The Leathernecks Have Landed
Character: Brig Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Policeman Detaining Harry West (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Title: Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Character: Chauffeur
Released: October 11, 1935
Type: Movie
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Convict
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Ghost Walks
Title: The Ghost Walks
Character: Guard
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Bartender (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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Arizona to Broadway
Title: Arizona to Broadway
Character: Monk's Henchman
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.
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The Devil's in Love
Title: The Devil's in Love
Character: Medical Aide
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Policeman at Headquarters (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Lion Attendant (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Water Sprayer (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Gaffer
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Men Of America
Title: Men Of America
Character: Blondie - Gang Member
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
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The Lost Special
Title: The Lost Special
Character: Eddie, Waiter at Red Lantern Cafe [Ch. 3]
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Veteran Hired as Elevator Operator
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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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Detective Bosco Yaeger
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: Havana Shore Patrolman
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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The Cuban Love Song
Title: The Cuban Love Song
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
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Hell Bound
Title: Hell Bound
Character: Gaspipe
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Doughboys
Title: Doughboys
Character: Induction Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
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Inside the Lines
Title: Inside the Lines
Character: Orderly
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Prison Barber
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Around the Corner
Title: Around the Corner
Character: Mac
Released: April 25, 1930
Type: Movie
18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman, and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Character: Cruise Ship Officer (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
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The Greene Murder Case
Title: The Greene Murder Case
Character: Cop in House (Uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.