Phillip Trent

Phillip Trent

Born: October 16, 1907
Died: January 24, 2001
in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Phillip Trent...

Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Tom Hare
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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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Title: Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Character: Fake Jim Warren (as Philip Trent)
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
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Murder by Invitation
Title: Murder by Invitation
Character: Larry Denham
Released: June 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Harold DeWitt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Jasper Jenks
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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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Gentleman / Bearded Confederate on Steps of Tara (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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Drunk Driving
Title: Drunk Driving
Character: MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Frank Burke
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Larry
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Law Student (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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The Spy Ring
Title: The Spy Ring
Character: Capt. Robert Scott
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
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Soak the Poor
Title: Soak the Poor
Character: MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1937
Type: Movie
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
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The Great Gambini
Title: The Great Gambini
Character: Reporter
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
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The Public Pays
Title: The Public Pays
Character: MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Edward
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Parole!
Title: Parole!
Character: Gregory (as Cliff Jones)
Released: June 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Louis Friedlander-directed film
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For the Service
Title: For the Service
Character: George Murphy
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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Don't Gamble with Love
Title: Don't Gamble with Love
Character: Bob Grant
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
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His Family Tree
Title: His Family Tree
Character: Dudley Weatherby
Released: September 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
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Strangers All
Title: Strangers All
Character: Patrick Gruen
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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Transient Lady
Title: Transient Lady
Character: Fred Baxter
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Larry King (as Clifford Jones)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Coming Out Party
Title: Coming Out Party
Character: Jimmy Wolverton (as Clifford Jones)
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.
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Tillie and Gus
Title: Tillie and Gus
Character: Tom Sheridan (as Clifford Jones)
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Tom Garner, Jr.
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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The Man Who Dared
Title: The Man Who Dared
Character: Dick
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.
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Trick for Trick
Title: Trick for Trick
Character: David Adams (as Clifford Jones)
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.