Paul Hurst

Paul Hurst

Born: October 14, 1888
Died: February 27, 1953
in Traver, California, USA
Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect).

In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne hired Hurst for Big Jim McLain (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide.

Date of Death: 27 February 1953, Hollywood, California  (suicide)

Movies for Paul Hurst...

The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Jimmy Bagby
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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Toughest Man in Arizona
Title: Toughest Man in Arizona
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
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Big Jim McLain
Title: Big Jim McLain
Character: Mr. Lexiter
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
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Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Ray Harvey
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
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The Missourians
Title: The Missourians
Character: John X. Finn
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of prejudice; his foreign birth and also the fact that his brother, Nick Kovacs, is the leader of an outlaw gang known as The Missourians.
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The Old Frontier
Title: The Old Frontier
Character: Skipper Horton
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all the robberies.
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The Vanishing Westerner
Title: The Vanishing Westerner
Character: Waldorf Worthington
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.
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Pioneer Marshal
Title: Pioneer Marshal
Character: Huck Homer
Released: November 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote frontier town that serves as an outlaw hideaway. All previous lawmen have been disposed of by town boss Bruce Burnett (Damian O'Flynn), who demands a hefty price for his services.
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Title: Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Character: Sheriff Jug Mason
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.
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San Antone Ambush
Title: San Antone Ambush
Character: Happy Daniels
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a pay wagon massacre by the Commissioner's men, he deserts the Army and tries to clear himself. At first he belives the Texan was behind the massacre but then learns it was the Commissioner and joins the Texan in his fight.
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South of Rio
Title: South of Rio
Character: Andy Weems
Released: July 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple of phony protection associations. Opposing them is Henry Waterman, publisher of the Rio Blanco Herald. He and his assistant, Andrew Jackson Weems, send for the help of the Territorial Rangers. One of the dispatched Rangers is Jeff Lanning who, unknown to him, has a brother as a member of the gang under an assumed name of Bob Mitchell. Jeff is so shocked at seeing his brother gun down Waterman that he is unable to act in time to prevent it. Unable to explain the cause of is inaction, he is suspended by the governor. Unable to persuade his brother to quit the gang, Jeff, with the aid of Weems and Waterman's daughter Carol, begins his quest to bring the outlaws to justice.
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Outcasts of the Trail
Title: Outcasts of the Trail
Character: Doc Meadowlark
Released: June 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.
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Law of the Golden West
Title: Law of the Golden West
Character: Otis Ellis
Released: May 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
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Prince of the Plains
Title: Prince of the Plains
Character: Sheriff Hank Hartley
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and unable to pay. But the secret leader of the gang is James Taylor large stockholder of the bank.....
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Gun Smugglers
Title: Gun Smugglers
Character: Sergeant Hasty Jones
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.
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Yellow Sky
Title: Yellow Sky
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
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Son of God’s Country
Title: Son of God’s Country
Character: Eli Walker
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the editor that received a letter that would expose him. But the editor earlier hid the letter in a chamber of his gun. Marshal Monte Hale arrives and eventually suspects Sanger and breaks into his house. After a gungight Sanger catches him and with one shot left shoots Monte. But he is using the editor's gun.
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The Arizona Ranger
Title: The Arizona Ranger
Character: Ben Riddle
Released: May 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
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Heart of Virginia
Title: Heart of Virginia
Character: Whit Galtry
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Title: Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Character: Jailer
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
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California Firebrand
Title: California Firebrand
Character: Chuck Waggoner
Released: April 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw and is hired by the town's corrupt mayor, Lance Dawson (Douglas Evans), as the new sheriff. But Monte secretly works to undermine Dawson's land-grabbing schemes. Monte defends the feisty owner (Lorna Gray) of a gold mine that Dawson covets, although she is suspicious of the cowpoke's loyalties and demands that he prove himself.
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Madonna of the Desert
Title: Madonna of the Desert
Character: Pete Connors
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
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Under Colorado Skies
Title: Under Colorado Skies
Character: Lucky John Hawkins
Released: December 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He is about to leave to return to college when the bank is held up by two members of a notorious gang, headed by Marlowe, leaving Monte with the smoking gun of one of the bandits that killed the bank president. To avoid bringing disgrace on the family of his sweetheart, Julia Collins, by revealing that it was her brother Jeff, supposedly working in Denver, who induced him to open the back door of the bank to let the robbers in, Monte allows suspicion to rest on him until he can clear himself.
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Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Frederick Carson
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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The Plainsman and the Lady
Title: The Plainsman and the Lady
Character: Al
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
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Death Valley
Title: Death Valley
Character: Sergeant Dailey
Released: August 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
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In Old Sacramento
Title: In Old Sacramento
Character: Stagecoach Driver
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Murder in the Music Hall
Title: Murder in the Music Hall
Character: Hobarth
Released: April 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Captain Spotts
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Murphy
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Steppin' in Society
Title: Steppin' in Society
Character: Cookie
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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Scared Stiff
Title: Scared Stiff
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
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The Big Show-Off
Title: The Big Show-Off
Character: Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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Something for the Boys
Title: Something for the Boys
Character: Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
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Girl Rush
Title: Girl Rush
Character: Muley
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Jake Compton
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Summer Storm
Title: Summer Storm
Character: Orloff
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
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The Ghost That Walks Alone
Title: The Ghost That Walks Alone
Character: Sheriff Slim Carson
Released: February 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
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The Sky's the Limit
Title: The Sky's the Limit
Character: Dock Foreman (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Louie
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Monty Smith
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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December 7th
Title: December 7th
Character: World War I Ghost Soldier
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
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Hi'ya, Chum
Title: Hi'ya, Chum
Character: Archie Billings
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
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Calaboose
Title: Calaboose
Character: Ed the bartender
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Sergeant Casper Riordan
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Sundown Jim
Title: Sundown Jim
Character: Broderick
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
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Dudes Are Pretty People
Title: Dudes Are Pretty People
Character: Two-Gun
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
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Pardon My Stripes
Title: Pardon My Stripes
Character: Feets
Released: January 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Title: Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Character: Page
Released: November 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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This Woman Is Mine
Title: This Woman Is Mine
Character: Second Mate Mumford
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Jake Waldren
Released: July 25, 1941
Type: Movie
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory.
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Caught in the Draft
Title: Caught in the Draft
Character: Sgt. Burns
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Michael O'Connor
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Petticoat Politics
Title: Petticoat Politics
Character: Slats O'Dell
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
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Virginia
Title: Virginia
Character: Thomas
Released: January 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Title: Tall, Dark and Handsome
Character: Biff Sage
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Pete
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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Goin' Fishin'
Title: Goin' Fishin'
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Headwaiter
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Chickenfoot
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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South to Karanga
Title: South to Karanga
Character: Slats
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Pete Haig (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Daniels
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Sheriff
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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Star Dust
Title: Star Dust
Character: Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Remember?
Title: Remember?
Character: Policeman
Released: December 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Yankee Deserter
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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Glove Slingers
Title: Glove Slingers
Character: Chuck Brenner
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Empire State Building Guard
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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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Variety Club Bartender
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Bad Lands
Title: Bad Lands
Character: Curly Tom
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Garsky
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: Sandy
Released: June 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ad man's wife pushes her husband into confronting his boss during a party. Unfortunately, the timid fellow finds himself accused of murder after a corpse is found in the trunk of his car. He is quickly incarcerated for the crime. Meanwhile his wife begins investigating in an attempt to prove his innocence.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Reynolds, a Drunk
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Bartender
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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Topper Takes a Trip
Title: Topper Takes a Trip
Character: Charlie - the Bartender
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
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Secrets of a Nurse
Title: Secrets of a Nurse
Character: Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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The Last Express
Title: The Last Express
Character: Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
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Hold That Co-ed
Title: Hold That Co-ed
Character: Slapsy
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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My Lucky Star
Title: My Lucky Star
Character: Louie
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Soapy
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: A. Adolphus Heyman
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Bill Mulligan
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Mitch
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Happy
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Florabelle's Father
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Sergeant
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Dennis Huggins
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Title: Ali Baba Goes to Town
Character: Captain
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
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The Lady Fights Back
Title: The Lady Fights Back
Character: Maloney
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: NYC policeman
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Bill
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: McCabe
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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She's No Lady
Title: She's No Lady
Character: Cop
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
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You Can't Have Everything
Title: You Can't Have Everything
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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The Legion of Missing Men
Title: The Legion of Missing Men
Character: Muggsy
Released: July 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy and Bilgey, go to a café and there Don falls for Nina, a singer in love with Bob. Bob doesn't know this and thinks she is Garccia's girl, and warns Don to have nothing to do with her. Don disregards the warning and Garcia discovers Nina and Don together and provokes Don into hitting him. Don is arrested and thrown into the company brig. Nina, with the aid of an Arabian sheik, Ul Ahmed, helps Don escape. Bob, Muggsy and Bilgey follow but are captured and taken to Ul Hamid's headquarters. The sheik tortures Don to force Bob to work some captured machine guns for him. Ah Hamid and his tribe attack the fort, but Bob manages to turn the machine guns against his captors, and the fort is saved.
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Super-Sleuth
Title: Super-Sleuth
Character: Motorcycle Cop
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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You Can't Beat Love
Title: You Can't Beat Love
Character: Foreman Butch Mehaffey
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will take on any bet or act on a whim. This becomes very apparent when he disrupts a food giveaway hosted by the mayor's daughter and as a result of this, he announces he's running for mayor--though he seems very much apolitical and has no interest in the job. Later, when he once again meets up with the mayor's daughter (Joan Fontaine) they supposedly fall in love--although there seemed to be little chemistry between them and it made very little sense for Fontaine to suddenly love a guy she so quickly hated at the beginning of the film. Plus, she really had plenty of reason to dislike the guy.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Drunk
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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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Sgt. Murphy
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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Fifty Roads to Town
Title: Fifty Roads to Town
Character: Tom
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Bowler
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Trouble in Morocco
Title: Trouble in Morocco
Character: Tiger Malone
Released: March 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Tip Fuller
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: Carlson
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
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The Gay Desperado
Title: The Gay Desperado
Character: American Detective
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
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I'd Give My Life
Title: I'd Give My Life
Character: "Sport" Conly
Released: August 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Drunk
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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Blackmailer
Title: Blackmailer
Character: Inspector Killian
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: 1st Deputy (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Wilson
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Riffraff
Title: Riffraff
Character: Belcher
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Bell Captain
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Prison Guard
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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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Detective Roscoe
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Rufe Parker
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Hefty
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Lt. Sackville
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Policeman
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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Sequoia
Title: Sequoia
Character: Bergman
Released: January 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Expressman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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The Ballad of Paducah Jail
Title: The Ballad of Paducah Jail
Character: Escaped Felon
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.
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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Detective
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Among the Missing
Title: Among the Missing
Character: Capt. W.F. 'Big Bill' Connors
Released: September 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
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Take the Stand
Title: Take the Stand
Character: Denny O'Brien
Released: August 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Midnight Alibi
Title: Midnight Alibi
Character: Babe the Butcher
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Title: Charlie Chan's Courage
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: July 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Butler
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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The Big Race
Title: The Big Race
Character: Skipper O'Neal
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
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Queen Christina
Title: Queen Christina
Character: Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
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The Women in His Life
Title: The Women in His Life
Character: Paul, Perez's Second Bodyguard
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: Harry
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Doc Maloney, Trainer
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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Tugboat Annie
Title: Tugboat Annie
Character: Sam
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
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The Sphinx
Title: The Sphinx
Character: Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
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Terror Aboard
Title: Terror Aboard
Character: Boatswain
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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Grand Slam
Title: Grand Slam
Character: Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
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Island of Lost Souls
Title: Island of Lost Souls
Character: Capt. Donahue
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Stiles
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
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The Big Stampede
Title: The Big Stampede
Character: 'Arizona' Frank Bailey
Released: September 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
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The Phantom President
Title: The Phantom President
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Butch
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: Detective Grump
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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State's Attorney
Title: State's Attorney
Character: Police Captain Morgan
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
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My Pal, the King
Title: My Pal, the King
Character: Red
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
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Panama Flo
Title: Panama Flo
Character: Al
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Officer Brannigan
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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Bad Company
Title: Bad Company
Character: Paul Hurst
Released: October 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Gabby
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Doc
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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That's My Line
Title: That's My Line
Character: Mexican Bandit
Released: July 13, 1931
Type: Movie
The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners the attention of a fair senorita which does not set well with the chief of a gang of bandits, and Bartels is soon seeking the USA/Mexico borderline.
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Sweepstakes
Title: Sweepstakes
Character: Bartender
Released: July 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Kick In
Title: Kick In
Character: Detective Whip Fogarty
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney. When the district attorney threatens to accuse the police of inefficiency in crime fighting, Garvey, who is campaigning for the office of police commissioner, promises to catch the thief in twenty-four hours.
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The Secret Six
Title: The Secret Six
Character: Nick Mizoski - the Gouger
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
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The Single Sin
Title: The Single Sin
Character: Slug
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
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The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: 'Beauty' Johnson
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
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Borrowed Wives
Title: Borrowed Wives
Character: Bull Morgan
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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Paradise Island
Title: Paradise Island
Character: Beauty
Released: July 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
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Hot Curves
Title: Hot Curves
Character: 'Slug', Baseball Player
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Pete Shore
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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The Runaway Bride
Title: The Runaway Bride
Character: Sergeant Daly
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Lem Harland
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. When he learns that it was Abner Harland, he fakes the killing of his friend Rusty, puts Abner in a coffin, and takes off. Lem Harland, seeing Rusty alive, realizes what happened and the chase is on.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Mugsy
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
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Officer O'Brien
Title: Officer O'Brien
Character: Captain Antrim
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
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Lucky Larkin
Title: Lucky Larkin
Character: Pete Brierson
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, and he refuses an offer of Martin Brierson to buy him out. Pete, Brierson's brother, in hiding because of his criminal record, burns the colonel's barn and injures his horses. Convinced of Brierson's responsibility for the terror tactics, "Lucky" Larkin plans to ride Tarzan, the colonel's pet colt. Brierson does his best to disqualify the horse, but Larkin tricks him and wins the race. Larkin captures Pete and forces him to confess. The Brierson brothers are brought to justice, and Larkin wins Emmy Lou, a homesteader's daughter.
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His First Command
Title: His First Command
Character: Sgt. Westbrook
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
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The Racketeer
Title: The Racketeer
Character: Mehaffy - Policeman
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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Oh, Yeah!
Title: Oh, Yeah!
Character: Railroad-Yard Superintendent
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Jimmylegs
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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The California Mail
Title: The California Mail
Character: Rowdy Ryan
Released: April 7, 1929
Type: Movie
During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent Bob Scott is therefore instructed to clean out the bandit gangs that have been stopping the vital California gold shipments.
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Tide of Empire
Title: Tide of Empire
Character: Poppy
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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The Lawless Legion
Title: The Lawless Legion
Character: Ramirez
Released: February 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
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Lilac Time
Title: Lilac Time
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
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The Cossacks
Title: The Cossacks
Character: Sitchi
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
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Buttons
Title: Buttons
Character: Slugger McGlue
Released: December 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Randeau
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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The Red Raiders
Title: The Red Raiders
Character: Sergeant Murphy
Released: September 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the new reservation, he sends his men to trap Scott and his troop before they can deliver the information.
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The Devil's Saddle
Title: The Devil's Saddle
Character: 'Swig' Moran
Released: July 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself.
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Outlaw's Paradise
Title: Outlaw's Paradise
Character: McDonald
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.
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Blue Streak O'Neil
Title: Blue Streak O'Neil
Released: December 15, 1926
Type: Movie
On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sheriff's posse. Having won the ranch for the heroine, he accepts from her a half interest in it, and also her love.
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The Fighting Ranger
Title: The Fighting Ranger
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.
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Roaring Road
Title: Roaring Road
Character: Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over the other contestants, incidentally winning the girl of his heart.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Lightning Bryce
Title: Lightning Bryce
Character: Powder Solvang
Released: October 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.
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Rimrock Jones
Title: Rimrock Jones
Character: Ike Bray
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
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The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Title: The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Character: Howie
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The movie serial sequel featuring Stingaree
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The Railroad Raiders
Title: The Railroad Raiders
Character: Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst)
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent movie serial
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The Hazards of Helen
Title: The Hazards of Helen
Character: Benton - a Foreman
Released: February 24, 1917
Type: Movie
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed lost.
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The Manager of the B & A
Title: The Manager of the B & A
Character: Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst)
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of Griffith Ryder, labor leader and newspaper editor, they call a strike. The water main which supplies the railroad yards is cut, and a hot engine starts a fire. With water unavailable, the fire spreads to town, but through his superhuman efforts, Oakley gets it under control. His heroic moves win favor with the workers, and the strike is history.
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The Diamond Runners
Title: The Diamond Runners
Character: Paul - the Brains of the I.D.B.
Released: August 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
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Judith of the Cumberlands
Title: Judith of the Cumberlands
Character: Blatchley Turrentine
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of the different clans try to end the feud, and wind up falling for each other.
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Medicine Bend
Title: Medicine Bend
Character: Murray Sinclair
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
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Whispering Smith
Title: Whispering Smith
Character: Murray Sinclair
Released: June 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right and never falters in his steps to see that justice is given where it is deserved and crime punished on the same basis. Originally shot as a serial to be called "Whispering Smith", distributor Mutual Films decided to release it as two separate films - this film, which was released first, and Medicine Bend (1916).
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A Lass of the Lumberlands
Title: A Lass of the Lumberlands
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Howie - Stingaree's Partner
Released: November 24, 1915
Type: Movie
Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, accidentally kills a man with whom he has had an altercation. Fleeing to Australia, Randolph becomes known as the bandit Stingaree and is aided in his Robin Hood like adventures by his friend Howie and his sweetheart Ethel.
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The Vivisectionist
Title: The Vivisectionist
Character: Bart - Jardine's Servant
Released: June 23, 1915
Type: Movie
American horror movie from 1915.
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The Girl Detective: Old Isaacson's Diamonds
Title: The Girl Detective: Old Isaacson's Diamonds
Character: Snake Henely
Released: February 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Fifth episode of the Girl Detective series 2-reels where a 'society girl' has a position as a special investigator in the police.
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The Red Signal
Title: The Red Signal
Character: Chief Dispatcher
Released: February 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insane. Meantime, a furious storm arises, a track walker discovers a washout and wires a warning to Helen, who sets the danger signal for the Limited which is due in ten minutes.
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Title: The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Character: A Trainman
Released: February 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight and drops onto the roof of the car from above as it crosses underneath. A chase along the roofs of the speeding cars ensues.
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The Girl Detective: The Mystery of the Tea Dansant
Title: The Girl Detective: The Mystery of the Tea Dansant
Character: (Episode #1, 2, etc.)
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Title: The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Character: Benton, the Foreman
Released: November 21, 1914
Type: Movie
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
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The Chief of Police
Title: The Chief of Police
Character: Daniels
Released: August 4, 1914
Type: Movie
How a man, imprisoned for another's crime, finds justice at last.
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The Quicksands
Title: The Quicksands
Character: Captain Lanning - Osborn's Rival
Released: June 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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The Cave Men's War
Title: The Cave Men's War
Character: Red Axe
Released: December 3, 1913
Type: Movie
The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.
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The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach
Title: The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach
Character: Bad Bill - a Desperado
Released: December 7, 1912
Type: Movie
A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.