Olin Francis

Olin Francis

Born: September 12, 1891
Died: June 30, 1952
in Mooreville, Mississippi, USA

Movies for Olin Francis...

Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Expressman (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Friend of Weiss (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Rollin' Home to Texas
Title: Rollin' Home to Texas
Character: Marshal
Released: December 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
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Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Title: Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Character: Mule Bates
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
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Beyond the Sacramento
Title: Beyond the Sacramento
Character: Convict Tom Jimpson
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Pete
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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A Failure at Fifty
Title: A Failure at Fifty
Character: Trader (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Henchman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Blake - Bearded Bank Robber
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Riders of Black River
Title: Riders of Black River
Character: Whit Kane - Henchman
Released: September 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a while, it looks as though heroine Linda Holden (Meredith) is in cahoots with the bad guys, but Patterson quickly clears her name and takes on the crooks himself.
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Riders of the Frontier
Title: Riders of the Frontier
Character: Henchman Sam
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton, a prisoner. Tex Lowery, an undercover Texas Ranger, rescues Martha Williams, a nurse sent for by the ailing Sarah, from a stagecoach holdup by Lane's henchmen. He later convinces Laner that he is a wanted outlaw named Ed Carter, and gains entry to Rancho Grande. But the real Ed Carter shows up.
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Unborn Souls
Title: Unborn Souls
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic. But when Kent is dismissed from the hospital, the troubles actually begin.
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Overland with Kit Carson
Title: Overland with Kit Carson
Character: Pierre
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Guard with Whip
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Army Enlistee Getting Socked
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Gunga Din
Title: Gunga Din
Character: Fulad (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1939
Type: Movie
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Red River Range
Title: Red River Range
Character: Henchman Kenton
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
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Overland Stage Raiders
Title: Overland Stage Raiders
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
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Knight of the Plains
Title: Knight of the Plains
Character: Rancher
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
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Two Gun Justice
Title: Two Gun Justice
Character: Blackie - Henchman
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement and assigned to clean up the gang. He disguises himself as a Mexican bandit, joins the gang and works from within.
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Rough Riding Rhythm
Title: Rough Riding Rhythm
Character: Jake Horne
Released: August 14, 1937
Type: Movie
When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have just robbed the stage and two dectectives arrive looking for them. Finding Jim and Scrubby instead, they assume them to be the outlaws and arrest them.
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Pioneer
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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A Face in the Fog
Title: A Face in the Fog
Character: Insurance Investigator (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
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I Conquer the Sea!
Title: I Conquer the Sea!
Character: Gabe
Released: January 23, 1936
Type: Movie
1936 was a different world in Newfoundland - the bigotry and the unexpected ending will give you plenty to talk about and think about in this forgotten masterpiece of human drama.
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The Irish Gringo
Title: The Irish Gringo
Character: Rawlins - Henchman
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A half Mexican, half Irish gunman called The Irish Gringo and his pals come across a little girl wandering in the desert. It turns out her grandfather was murdered by a gang looking for the Lost Dutchman mine, a map of which is drawn on the shirt she is wearing, and now the outlaws are after her.
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Lightning Range
Title: Lightning Range
Character: Black Pete
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Hester and Hezekiah plan to get Dorothy Horton's inheritance. But when Pete and his men rob the stage they learn of the scheme and send Jim to replace Hezekiah. The Deputy Marshal breaks this up but Black Pete arrives wearing the Marshal's badge and has the Sheriff take him away while he flees with the inheritance money.
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The Fighting Cowboy
Title: The Fighting Cowboy
Character: Bartender
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Bill Carson arrives and tells Cash Horton that his supposedly worthless mine contains valuable tungsten. Duke learns of the mine's value and tries to have them both killed. Failing, he has the Sheriff arrest Bill for murder. Unknown to Bill and the Sheriff, the victim is alive and well.
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The Penal Code
Title: The Penal Code
Character: McCarthy
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Prison Hospital Guard
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Out of Singapore
Title: Out of Singapore
Character: Seaman Bill
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
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45 Calibre Echo
Title: 45 Calibre Echo
Character: Burly Henchman
Released: February 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.
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Air Eagles
Title: Air Eagles
Character: Guard
Released: December 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
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The Law of the Tong
Title: The Law of the Tong
Character: Dance Hall Customer
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.
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Lariats and Six-Shooters
Title: Lariats and Six-Shooters
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A gang of jewel smugglers swears to take revenge on a deputy sheriff after his dogged pursuit of them forces them to flee without their goods.
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Win That Girl
Title: Win That Girl
Character: Larry Brawn II
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
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The Kid Brother
Title: The Kid Brother
Character: Olin Hickory
Released: January 17, 1927
Type: Movie
The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
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Pioneers of the West
Title: Pioneers of the West
Character: Black Eagle
Released: May 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Caught by the Piutes, pony Express Rider Dick Carter falls in love with pretty Dorothy Earle, who belongs to that seemingly endless supply of white girls kidnapped in childhood and raised by Indians. Unfortunately, Dorothy is promised to Bud Osborne, described in a title as "a renegade white who dominates the simple minds of the savage horde." Does Dorothy succeed in taking her own life rather than face an uncertain future with evil Bud? Or does the stalwart Dick rescue her in time?
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Circus Lure
Title: Circus Lure
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a star, follows. She is engaged and her presence causes jealousy on the part of Joe's sweetheart.
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The Powerful Eye
Title: The Powerful Eye
Character: Hurley - the Master Magician
Released: June 7, 1924
Type: Movie