Eddie Dunn

Eddie Dunn

Born: March 29, 1896
Died: May 5, 1951
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
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Edward Frank Dunn (March 31, 1896 – May 5, 1951) was an American actor best known for his roles in comedy films, supporting many comedians such as Charley Chase (with whom he co-directed several short films), Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and Laurel and Hardy. Dunn also appeared as Detective Grimes in several of The Falcon series of films in the 1940s which starred George Sanders and later on Sanders' brother Tom Conway, and in many small and uncredited parts in many feature films until his death in 1951 aged 55.

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The Velveteen Rabbit
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
Character: Doctor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real. One day while talking with the Skin Horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. The Skin Horse makes the Velveteen Rabbit aware that "...once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
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Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Title: Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Character: Stage Driver
Released: May 1, 1951
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
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Lonely Heart Bandits
Title: Lonely Heart Bandits
Character: Sheriff York
Released: August 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: Eddie (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Gun Crazy
Title: Gun Crazy
Character: State Policeman on Phone (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Watchman (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
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I Shot Jesse James
Title: I Shot Jesse James
Character: Joe, Silver King Bartender
Released: February 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
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Homicide for Three
Title: Homicide for Three
Character: Circus Doorman
Released: December 8, 1948
Type: Movie
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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Incident
Title: Incident
Character: Police Lt. Madigan
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Marty (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Shed No Tears
Title: Shed No Tears
Character: Loan Company Representative (Uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Character: Pit Violinist (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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The Man from Texas
Title: The Man from Texas
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1948
Type: Movie
James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Patrolman John W. Bundy (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Character: Police Officer
Released: November 24, 1947
Type: Movie
George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
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Key Witness
Title: Key Witness
Character: Detective Lt. Dillon (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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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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Philo Vance Returns
Title: Philo Vance Returns
Character: Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Mulroney - Garage Man (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Bowery Bombshell
Title: Bowery Bombshell
Character: Police Officer O'Hara
Released: July 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
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Title: Face to Face
Character: Host
Released: June 9, 1946
Type: TV
Face to Face is an early American television game show running 15 minutes. It began broadcasting on the NBC Television network on June 9, 1946 and ran until January 26, 1947 on Sundays at 8:00 pm EST, immediately before Geographically Speaking.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Bewitched
Title: Bewitched
Character: Prison Janitor (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
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Patrick the Great
Title: Patrick the Great
Character: Plumber
Released: May 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: 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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Here Come the Co-eds
Title: Here Come the Co-eds
Character: Officer Flannigan (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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Lost in a Harem
Title: Lost in a Harem
Character: Sentry (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Dead Man's Eyes
Title: Dead Man's Eyes
Character: Police Guard Moriarty
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: Set designer
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Detective
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
Title: A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character: Gus Hoffman
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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Moon Over Las Vegas
Title: Moon Over Las Vegas
Character: Conductor
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
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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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So's Your Uncle
Title: So's Your Uncle
Character: Propietor
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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The Falcon in Danger
Title: The Falcon in Danger
Character: Det. Grimes
Released: July 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government.
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Hit the Ice
Title: Hit the Ice
Character: Officer Murphy (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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A Stranger in Town
Title: A Stranger in Town
Character: Henry
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Forman of Renovation Crew
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Policeman
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Margin for Error
Title: Margin for Error
Character: Desk Sergeant
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Matthews
Released: December 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
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The Falcon's Brother
Title: The Falcon's Brother
Character: Detective Grimes
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A gentlemanly detective known as The Falcon calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
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My Sister Eileen
Title: My Sister Eileen
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Weather Bureau Man
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Police Officer Mulvaney (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: S.S. Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Man
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: O'Toole
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: Police Detective Sergeant Dexter
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Title: Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Character: George Skinner
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Railroad Detective #1 (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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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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A Date with the Falcon
Title: A Date with the Falcon
Character: Det. Grimes (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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At the Stroke of Twelve
Title: At the Stroke of Twelve
Character: Policeman
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Detective (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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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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The Gay Falcon
Title: The Gay Falcon
Character: Detective Grimes
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Policeman Eddie
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Whaler Captain
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Recruiting Sergeant
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Dance Hall Ticket Taker (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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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Pat Shanahan
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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The Saint In Palm Springs
Title: The Saint In Palm Springs
Character: Det. Barker
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Driver
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Foley - Racketeer
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: James the Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Title: Mexican Spitfire Out West
Character: Mr. Skinner
Released: October 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Whitewashed Storm Trooper
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Stevens - the Coach Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Dunkel
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Plainclothesman
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Furniture Man
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Wildcatter (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: McGurk (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Detective Winton
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: 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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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Det. Farnow
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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He Married His Wife
Title: He Married His Wife
Character: The Jailer
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Jim
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: D.H. Sligby
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: Jailer
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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Of Mice and Men
Title: Of Mice and Men
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Officer Walsh
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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The Big Guy
Title: The Big Guy
Character: Dawes (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Slim Pickins (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Race Track Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Truck Driver
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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Dog-Gone
Title: Dog-Gone
Character: Dr. Kittle
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog.
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The Wrong Room
Title: The Wrong Room
Character: The Attorney
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Racetrack Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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Chicken Wagon Family
Title: Chicken Wagon Family
Character: Stu
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Trucking Superintendent
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Road Construction Workman
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Decorator
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Newsreel Reporter
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Curly
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Tail Spin
Title: Tail Spin
Character: Eddie, Mechanic (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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The Phantom Creeps
Title: The Phantom Creeps
Character: Policeman
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Moving Man
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: 1st Cop
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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A Clean Sweep
Title: A Clean Sweep
Character: Salesman Crew Boss
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Title: The Arkansas Traveler
Character: Hobo
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Norman - Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Beaux and Errors
Title: Beaux and Errors
Character: Jimmy Dugan, Old Beaux
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In addition to getting worn out playing golf, Edgar overhears a phone call that makes him think Vivien is arranging to run off with his hated rival.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Eddie
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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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Field Employee
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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His Pest Friend
Title: His Pest Friend
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Expressman
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Change of Heart
Title: Change of Heart
Character: Dog Owner
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Ed Slocum - Stagecoach Driver
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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Many Unhappy Returns
Title: Many Unhappy Returns
Character: Jones - Mr. Morgan's Secretary
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting. he buys her an expensive doll for her birthday. But before he can give it to her, he gets mixed up with the blonde at the cigar-store, the doll gets burned up, and his wife is also burned up about many things.
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One Mile from Heaven
Title: One Mile from Heaven
Character: Detective
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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Tramp Trouble
Title: Tramp Trouble
Released: August 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Ostler
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Dumb's the Word
Title: Dumb's the Word
Character: Neighbor
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin Roosevelt has actually campaigned Congress to make gold ownership illegal in order to force people off the gold standard as well as to try to get more currency into circulation.
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Detective
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Kitty "The Horse" Schwartz (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Sergeant at Arms
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Let's Make a Million
Title: Let's Make a Million
Character: Taggert
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Grip (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Politician
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Cowboy
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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And Sudden Death
Title: And Sudden Death
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving.
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Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Mechanic
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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The Princess Comes Across
Title: The Princess Comes Across
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Tub Wilson (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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A Face in the Fog
Title: A Face in the Fog
Character: Policeman Kelly (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Dispatcher
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Powdersmoke Range
Title: Powdersmoke Range
Character: Elliott
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
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Alibi Racket
Title: Alibi Racket
Character: Detective
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Police Broadcaster (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Stolen Harmony
Title: Stolen Harmony
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Title: Cardinal Richelieu
Character: Tradesman
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Mack
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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The Midnight Patrol
Title: The Midnight Patrol
Character: Sergeant
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
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Private Detective 62
Title: Private Detective 62
Character: Club Doorman (Uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
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Fallen Arches
Title: Fallen Arches
Character: The Thief
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Sailor
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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Always Kickin'
Title: Always Kickin'
Released: October 9, 1932
Type: Movie
When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.
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Off His Base
Title: Off His Base
Character: Gallagher - Reporter
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Coachman / Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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In Walked Charley
Title: In Walked Charley
Released: April 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley, a travel agent, finds himself in a situation where he has to humor an apparent lunatic.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Lankey
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Hasty Marriage
Title: Hasty Marriage
Character: Eddie Jenkins
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
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The Pajama Party
Title: The Pajama Party
Character: Eddie
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
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Love Fever
Title: Love Fever
Character: Theatrical Agent
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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Riders of the North
Title: Riders of the North
Character: Tim 'Mac' McGuire
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
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The Sunrise Trail
Title: The Sunrise Trail
Character: Rand Kennedy
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
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Finn and Hattie
Title: Finn and Hattie
Character: N. Y. Taxi Driver
Released: February 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
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Another Fine Mess
Title: Another Fine Mess
Character: Meadows the Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Looser Than Loose
Title: Looser Than Loose
Character: Night Club Waiter
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: Palace Master of Ceremonies
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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The Land of Missing Men
Title: The Land of Missing Men
Character: Sheriff Bower
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot head for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. The townspeople head after them not knowing what they will find.
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True to the Navy
Title: True to the Navy
Character: Albert
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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Whispering Whoopee
Title: Whispering Whoopee
Character: Ricketts, the Butler
Released: March 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
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The Fighting Parson
Title: The Fighting Parson
Character: The Piano Player
Released: February 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
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The Real McCoy
Title: The Real McCoy
Character: Mountain Man (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
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The Head Guy
Title: The Head Guy
Character: Mr. Dunn, the Producer
Released: January 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
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The Saturday Night Kid
Title: The Saturday Night Kid
Character: Jim (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
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Bouncing Babies
Title: Bouncing Babies
Character: Eddie - Father (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1929
Type: Movie
With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.
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Sky Boy
Title: Sky Boy
Character: Pilot
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
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Crazy Feet
Title: Crazy Feet
Character: Thelma's Dancing Partner
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
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Hotter Than Hot
Title: Hotter Than Hot
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
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Dad's Day
Title: Dad's Day
Character: Jimmie
Released: July 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A middle-aged dad gets no respect from his ungrateful family at home, so he goes to the beach for the day. The family decides to go too, bringing the daughter's obnoxious boyfriend.
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Madame Q
Title: Madame Q
Character: Defense Lawyer
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
An attractive young woman on trial for murder employs her feminine wiles to charm the judge and jury.
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The Unkissed Man
Title: The Unkissed Man
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Title: Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Character: Himself
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
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Why Is a Plumber?
Title: Why Is a Plumber?
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Al Pearce
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.
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The Road to Ruin
Title: The Road to Ruin
Character: Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
Released: March 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
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Say Ah-h!
Title: Say Ah-h!
Released: February 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Charley has to find an ostrich egg in a hurry for a disgruntled visitor, but he doesn't count on the introduction of some surreal plot twists and turns that foil his every attempt.
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies
Title: Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man's car and kidnaps his girlfriend.
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Plagues And Puppy Love
Title: Plagues And Puppy Love
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Larry Semon produces his take on a typical Keystone farce, the flirting-in-the-park routine, where pretty Florence Curtis is pursued by four typical Keystone types: the wealthy geezer, the moustachioed Italian, the derby-wearing tough and, of course, the big-footed cop… and here comes Larry, if not to save the day, at least to make us laugh.
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Rips and Rushes
Title: Rips and Rushes
Released: February 6, 1917
Type: Movie
While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.
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Flatheads and Flivvers
Title: Flatheads and Flivvers
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
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Hash and Havoc
Title: Hash and Havoc
Released: December 4, 1916
Type: Movie
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Walls and Wallops
Title: Walls and Wallops
Character: The Villain
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with Lawrence (also Larry) Semon directing this. It is about cops, capers, and a love interest.
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A Villainous Villain
Title: A Villainous Villain
Character: Gentleman Joe
Released: September 8, 1916
Type: Movie
The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.
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There and Back
Title: There and Back
Released: August 18, 1916
Type: Movie
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Losing Weight
Title: Losing Weight
Released: June 30, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Vanishing Vault
Title: The Vanishing Vault
Released: May 7, 1915
Type: Movie
While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes to place her million-dollar box of jewels in the hotel vault, which is set into the wall at the end of the hallway. The manager accordingly escorts her to the big safe, and she watches him place the little box inside. Next morning the manager goes to cash a check for the Baroness, and finds the whole vault has completely vanished.
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Boobley's Baby
Title: Boobley's Baby
Released: April 26, 1915
Type: Movie
A man with a baby gets a scarce seat on the streetcar, leaving Mr. Boobley standing. Boobley gets the bright idea to carry a doll with him to be sure of getting a seat.