Andy Devine

Andy Devine

Born: October 7, 1905
Died: February 18, 1977
in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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Andrew Vabre "Andy" Devine (October 7, 1905 – February 18, 1977) was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in Western films.

He is probably best remembered for his role as Cookie, the sidekick of Roy Rogers in ten feature films. He also appeared alongside John Wayne in films like Stagecoach (1939), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and How the West Was Won (both 1962). He is also remembered as Jingles on the TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958, as Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born (1937), and as the voice of Friar Tuck in the Disney Animation film Robin Hood (1973).

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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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The Mouse and His Child
Title: The Mouse and His Child
Character: The Frog (voice)
Released: November 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-winding".
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A Whale of a Tale
Title: A Whale of a Tale
Character: Captain Andy
Released: September 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Young Joey wants to be an animal trainer so badly that he sneaks into off-limits areas of Marineland.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Title: Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Character: Priest in Dog Pound
Released: July 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
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Gable: The King Remembered
Title: Gable: The King Remembered
Character: Himself
Released: February 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Friends and co-workers recall the life of Hollywood screen star Clark Gable.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Friar Tuck - A Badger (voice)
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
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The American West of John Ford
Title: The American West of John Ford
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director 'John Ford' , including clips from his work and interviews with his colleagues.
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
Title: The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Title: The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Character: Amos Polk
Released: November 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.
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Myra Breckinridge
Title: Myra Breckinridge
Character: Coyote Bill
Released: June 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
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The Phynx
Title: The Phynx
Character: Andy Devine
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
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Smoke
Title: Smoke
Character: Mr. Stone
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A boy finds an injured German Shepherd Dog whom he names Smoke.
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Title: Love, American Style
Character: Sheriff Bob O'Connors
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
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The Over the Hill Gang
Title: The Over the Hill Gang
Character: Judge Amos Polk
Released: July 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.
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Ride a Northbound Horse
Title: Ride a Northbound Horse
Character: Jim Demmer
Released: March 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is plotting to get the stallion away from the innocent Cav.
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The Ballad of Josie
Title: The Ballad of Josie
Character: Judge Tatum
Released: February 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.
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The Road Hustlers
Title: The Road Hustlers
Character: Sheriff Estep
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: Batman
Character: Santa
Released: January 12, 1966
Type: TV
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
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Zebra in the Kitchen
Title: Zebra in the Kitchen
Character: Branch Hawksbill
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town.
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Title: Flipper
Released: September 19, 1964
Type: TV
Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons, Sandy and Bud. The show has been dubbed an "aquatic Lassie", and a considerable amount of juvenile merchandise inspired by the show was produced during its first-run.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: Sheriff of Crockett County
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Charles Cortland
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: Andy
Released: July 22, 1963
Type: TV
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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How the West Was Won
Title: How the West Was Won
Character: Cpl. Peterson
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Amos Tyke
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Title: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Marshal Link Appleyard
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'A Star Is Born' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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Title: The Wonderful World of Disney
Released: September 24, 1961
Type: TV
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Two Rode Together
Title: Two Rode Together
Character: Sgt. Darius P. Posey
Released: July 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
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Title: My Three Sons
Character: Colonel Parker
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: TV
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Det. Sgt. 'Big' Jake Sloan
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Mr. Carmody
Released: July 21, 1960
Type: Movie
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Somerset Frisby
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Roscoe
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Title: The Lux Show
Character: Self
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: TV
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: SS Henrietta First Mate
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Title: The Ford Show
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
The Ford Show is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956 to June 29, 1961. Beginning in September 1958, the show began to be telecast in color. Ford first gained attention as the host of Hometown Jamboree in Los Angeles. In 1954, he hosted a brief revival of Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, a quiz show on NBC. His subsequent The Ford Show was frequently among the Top 20 programs.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Jed Whitlow
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Pete Kelly's Blues
Title: Pete Kelly's Blues
Character: George Tenell
Released: July 31, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
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The Tilted Tenderfoot
Title: The Tilted Tenderfoot
Character: Jingles P. Jones
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Matchmaking Marshal
Title: The Matchmaking Marshal
Character: Jingles P. Jones
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Phantom Trails
Title: Phantom Trails
Character: JIngles
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series 'Wild Bill Hickok': "A Close Shave for the Marshal" (6/16/1952) and "Ghost Rider" (4/7/1952).
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Timber Country Trouble
Title: Timber Country Trouble
Character: Jingles
Released: May 8, 1955
Type: Movie
A short feature western comprising two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, the episodes being "Lumber Camp Story" (4/21/1952) and "Boy And The Bandit" (5/5/1952).
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Marshals in Disguise
Title: Marshals in Disguise
Character: Jingles P. Jones
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Another of the series of "movies" created by stitching two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series together, U. S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles P. Jones are working to solve the mystery of a number of gold robberies from a stage line and expose the plot of a bank manager to buy the bank with funds stolen from it. Wrapping that one up tightly in less than thirty minutes, they move on up the road to round up another gang that has been holding up Wells Fargo offices, with Jingles posing as a medicine show magician.
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The Two Gun Teacher
Title: The Two Gun Teacher
Character: Jingles
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Outlaw's Son
Title: Outlaw's Son
Character: Jingles
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Trouble on the Trail
Title: Trouble on the Trail
Character: Jingles
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
"Trouble on the Trail" is two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" television series edited together and released as a feature film by Allied Artists.
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Thunder Pass
Title: Thunder Pass
Character: Injun
Released: September 20, 1954
Type: Movie
A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
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Two Gun Marshal
Title: Two Gun Marshal
Character: Jingles P. Jones
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
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Six Gun Decision
Title: Six Gun Decision
Character: Deputy Aloysius 'Jingles' P. Jones
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A compilation of two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released as a feature film.
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Border City Rustlers
Title: Border City Rustlers
Character: Jingles
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes of "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Title: Secret of Outlaw Flats
Character: Aloysius P. 'Jingles' Jones
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Willie Moon
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Charley Dwyer
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Montana Belle
Title: Montana Belle
Character: Pete Bivins
Released: November 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Dissension among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicate the plot, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons, horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer. Written by Rod Crawford
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The Yellow Haired Kid
Title: The Yellow Haired Kid
Character: Jingles P. Jones
Released: November 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
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Trail of the Arrow
Title: Trail of the Arrow
Character: Jingles
Released: November 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Behind Southern Lines
Title: Behind Southern Lines
Character: Jingles
Released: November 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Title: The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Character: Deputy Jingle P. Jones
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Ellis in Freedomland
Title: Ellis in Freedomland
Character: The Waterheater (voice)
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
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Slaughter Trail
Title: Slaughter Trail
Character: Sgt. Macintosh
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the war path and they have to take refuge in an Army fort to avoid them. The Indians then arrive offering peace if the three men are turned over to them. The fort's commanding Officer wants peace but the rules say the men must be tried in a white man's court leaving the Indians no choice but to attack.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Title: The Red Badge of Courage
Character: The Cheery Soldier
Released: September 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
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New Mexico
Title: New Mexico
Character: Sgt. Garrity
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hunt's superiors in the military insist on pursuing policies that will provoke a conflict, and Chief Acoma is not willing to let himself be insulted.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Jingles
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Never a Dull Moment
Title: Never a Dull Moment
Character: Orvie
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
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The Traveling Saleswoman
Title: The Traveling Saleswoman
Character: Waldo
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Lum and Abner
Title: Lum and Abner
Character: Mose
Released: July 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff tried to bring their highly successful radio show to TV but it didn’t happen. In this failed pilot Abner is on the phone with Mose and says he’ll meet him and Opie Cates to go fishing. Lum comes into the store with a letter from the IRS. He goes to burn it in the stove and sees Abner’s fishing tackle.
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The Last Bandit
Title: The Last Bandit
Character: Casey Brown
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Judge Cookie Bullfincher
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Grand Canyon Trail
Title: Grand Canyon Trail
Character: Cookie Bullfincher
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. Carol comes out to look for silver to save the company, but does not know that their engineer, named Regan, is crooked and wants all the silver for himself. But only Old Ed knows where the mother lode is located.
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Night Time in Nevada
Title: Night Time in Nevada
Character: Cookie Bullfincher
Released: September 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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Eyes of Texas
Title: Eyes of Texas
Character: Dr. Cookie Bullfincher
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A ranch owner turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer covets the ranch and uses a gang of local toughs, a pack of killer dogs, and a phoney rancher's beneficiary to get it. U.S. Marshal Rogers opens an investigation when the rancher is killed.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Windy Hornblower
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Under California Stars
Title: Under California Stars
Character: Cookie Bullfincher / Cousins Alf, Luke, & Grover Bullfincher
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
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Old Los Angeles
Title: Old Los Angeles
Character: Sam Bowie
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the early statehood days of California, with Elliot keeping the peace and warding off plunderers and marauders. As always, Elliot is a "peaceable man"--until he beats the tar out of those who rile him. The problem with Elliot's more expensive Republic vehicles is that action invariably took a back seat to plot, romance, costumes and decor. Within a year of Old Los Angeles, Elliot started a more austere, less prettified and far superior western series.
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The Gay Ranchero
Title: The Gay Ranchero
Character: Cookie Bullfincher
Released: January 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
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The Fabulous Texan
Title: The Fabulous Texan
Character: Elihu Mills
Released: November 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
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On the Old Spanish Trail
Title: On the Old Spanish Trail
Character: Constable Cookie Bullfincher
Released: October 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
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Michigan Kid
Title: Michigan Kid
Character: Buster
Released: August 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
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Slave Girl
Title: Slave Girl
Character: Ben
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Springtime in the Sierras
Title: Springtime in the Sierras
Character: Cookie Bullfincher
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
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The Vigilantes Return
Title: The Vigilantes Return
Character: Andy
Released: May 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.
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Bells of San Angelo
Title: Bells of San Angelo
Character: Cookie Bullfincher
Released: April 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
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Canyon Passage
Title: Canyon Passage
Character: Ben Dance
Released: July 17, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Frontier Gal
Title: Frontier Gal
Character: Big Ben
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
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That's the Spirit
Title: That's the Spirit
Character: Martin Wilde Sr.
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
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Sudan
Title: Sudan
Character: Nebka
Released: April 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Frisco Sal
Title: Frisco Sal
Character: Bunny
Released: February 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder.
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Bowery to Broadway
Title: Bowery to Broadway
Character: Father Kelley
Released: November 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
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Babes on Swing Street
Title: Babes on Swing Street
Character: Joe Costello
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
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Ghost Catchers
Title: Ghost Catchers
Character: Horsehead
Released: June 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
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Follow the Boys
Title: Follow the Boys
Character: Andy Devine (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1944
Type: Movie
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Abdullah
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Andy Devine
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Walsh
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Frontier Badmen
Title: Frontier Badmen
Character: Slim - Cowhand
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.
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Rhythm of the Islands
Title: Rhythm of the Islands
Character: Eddie Dolan
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.
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Keeping Fit
Title: Keeping Fit
Character: Andy - Factory Worker
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Topical wartime short depicting the plight of civilians who must stay in shape in order to fight the good fight.
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Sin Town
Title: Sin Town
Character: 'Judge' Eustace Vale
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
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Between Us Girls
Title: Between Us Girls
Character: Mike Kilinsky
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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Timber!
Title: Timber!
Character: Arizona
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
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Top Sergeant
Title: Top Sergeant
Character: Andy Jarrett
Released: June 14, 1942
Type: Movie
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
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Danger in the Pacific
Title: Danger in the Pacific
Character: Andy Parker
Released: June 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.
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Escape from Hong Kong
Title: Escape from Hong Kong
Character: Blimp
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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Unseen Enemy
Title: Unseen Enemy
Character: Detective Sam Dillon
Released: March 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
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North to the Klondike
Title: North to the Klondike
Character: Klondike
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
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Road Agent
Title: Road Agent
Character: Andy
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
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Breakdowns of 1941
Title: Breakdowns of 1941
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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South of Tahiti
Title: South of Tahiti
Character: Moose
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
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The Kid from Kansas
Title: The Kid from Kansas
Character: Andy
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Spearfish
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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A Dangerous Game
Title: A Dangerous Game
Character: Andy McAllister
Released: August 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
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Raiders of the Desert
Title: Raiders of the Desert
Character: Andy 'Hammer' McCoy
Released: July 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fighting in a brutal civil war
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The Flame of New Orleans
Title: The Flame of New Orleans
Character: 1st Sailor
Released: July 7, 1941
Type: Movie
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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Men of the Timberland
Title: Men of the Timberland
Character: Andy Jensen
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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Mutiny in the Arctic
Title: Mutiny in the Arctic
Character: Andy Adams
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
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Lucky Devils
Title: Lucky Devils
Character: Andy Tompkins
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Meadows
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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The Devil's Pipeline
Title: The Devil's Pipeline
Character: Andy Jennings
Released: October 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.
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The Leather Pushers
Title: The Leather Pushers
Character: Andy Adams
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Ozark
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Black Diamonds
Title: Black Diamonds
Character: Tolliver Higgenbotham
Released: July 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
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Swing with Bing
Title: Swing with Bing
Character: Himself
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A short-subject golf film at the fourth annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Rancho Santa Fe.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: Andy Devine
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Hot Steel
Title: Hot Steel
Character: Matt Morrison
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Wally Davis
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: "Commodore"
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: 'Guppy' Wexel
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
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The Man from Montreal
Title: The Man from Montreal
Character: Constable 'Bones' Blair
Released: December 9, 1939
Type: Movie
The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast respectively as fur trapper Clark Manning and constable Bones Blair, who carry on a friendly rivalry in the Canadian Northwest. Our heroes team up in the final reels to put the kibosh on a fur-smuggling racket, permitting Universal to plunge deeply into its stock-footage files. The leading ladies this time out are Anne Gwynne and Kay Sutton, their billing status indicating which one of the two ladies will land Clark Manning in the last scene. Incredibly, the Arlen-Devine series lasted for 14 films, none of them classics but all of them worthwhile Saturday-matinee fare.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Sneezer
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Legion of Lost Flyers
Title: Legion of Lost Flyers
Character: 'Beef' Brumley
Released: November 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
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Tropic Fury
Title: Tropic Fury
Character: Tynan ('Tiny') Andrews
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Slim Collins
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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The Spirit of Culver
Title: The Spirit of Culver
Character: Tubby
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he can have free room and board, Allen initially resists the rigid discipline but later softens as he makes friends and sees the value to the hard work and discipline.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Henry Munch
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Buck
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Swede Hanzen
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Swing That Cheer
Title: Swing That Cheer
Character: Doc Saunders
Released: October 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
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Personal Secretary
Title: Personal Secretary
Character: 'Snoop' Lewis
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Joe Gibbs
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Yellow Jack
Title: Yellow Jack
Character: Charlie Spill
Released: May 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.
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Doctor Rhythm
Title: Doctor Rhythm
Character: Officer Lawrence O'Roon
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Pickle Bixby
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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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Daisy Day
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Half Pint
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Willy
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Danny McGuire
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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Mysterious Crossing
Title: Mysterious Crossing
Character: Carolina
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
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Flying Hostess
Title: Flying Hostess
Character: Joe Williams
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Pop Andrews
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Peter
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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Yellowstone
Title: Yellowstone
Character: Pay-Day
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: George Brannan
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Title: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Character: Self - Toreador
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.
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Coronado
Title: Coronado
Character: Pinky Falls
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
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Fighting Youth
Title: Fighting Youth
Character: Cy Kipp
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Hi Holler
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character: Elmer Otway
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: George Mason
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Liverlips
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: Edwards
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Hell in the Heavens
Title: Hell in the Heavens
Character: Sgt. "Ham" Davis
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Val Orcott
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: Joe Egbert aka Egghead
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Gift of Gab
Title: Gift of Gab
Character: John P. McDougal - the Waiter
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Careful
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Let's Talk It Over
Title: Let's Talk It Over
Character: Gravel
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Howie
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Oscar
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Andy
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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Chance at Heaven
Title: Chance at Heaven
Character: Al
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Andy Jones
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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Doctor Bull
Title: Doctor Bull
Character: Larry Ward
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
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Midnight Mary
Title: Midnight Mary
Character: Samuel 'Sam' / 'Sammy' Travers
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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Horse Play
Title: Horse Play
Character: Andy
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for one million dollars because the land contains valuable minerals. Slim and his partner, Andy Jones, are overwhelmed by their new found wealth, but it does not help to soothe Slim's hurt feelings when he finds out that Angelica has gone to England to stay with her other aunt. He decides to bring her his horse, "Cynthia Ann," as a gift, and with Andy and the horse, he sets sail.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Scoops
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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Song of the Eagle
Title: Song of the Eagle
Character: Mud
Released: April 27, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Title: The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Character: Andy Anderson
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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The Eagle and the Squawk
Title: The Eagle and the Squawk
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Short subject to promote the government’s NRA (National Recovery Act) program.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Andy Moran
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Tom Brown of Culver
Title: Tom Brown of Culver
Character: Mac
Released: June 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Steve Hand
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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Fast Companions
Title: Fast Companions
Character: Information Kid
Released: June 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A crooked jockey tries to reform.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Pete Wiley
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Man Wanted
Title: Man Wanted
Character: Andy Doyle
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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The Impatient Maiden
Title: The Impatient Maiden
Character: Clarence Howe
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Three Wise Girls
Title: Three Wise Girls
Character: Jimmy Callahan - Chauffeur
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Johnny Kinsman
Released: February 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
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The Unexpected Father
Title: The Unexpected Father
Character: Oilman (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
Title: The Spirit of Notre Dame
Character: Ernest "Truck" McCall
Released: October 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Cluck (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Dames Ahoy
Title: Dames Ahoy
Character: Marine at Dance Contest
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.
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His Lucky Day
Title: His Lucky Day
Character: Road House Thug (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
When a young man acts foolish, he's either insane, in debt or in love, and there's not much difference! Real estate agent Charles Blaydon is in love and in order to get the father of his sweetheart Kay Weaver to purchase a nearby property he is must fill the vacant house next door. So he does something foolish when he offers a few months rent free to the first group of prospective buyer he finds. However in his eagerness he doesn't suspect that this peculiar group isn't a family looking for a home but actually a gang of robbers on the lam!
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Bob
Released: May 5, 1929
Type: Movie
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Young Man at The Boiler (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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The Divine Lady
Title: The Divine Lady
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Naughty Baby
Title: Naughty Baby
Character: Joe Cassidy
Released: December 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Flood Extra (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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Lonesome
Title: Lonesome
Character: Jim's Friend (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Pat O'Dougal
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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Splashing Through
Title: Splashing Through
Character: Student
Released: December 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Series #2, Episode #8 of The Collegians, where in this case centers around various water sports, and Benson even finds himself in jail at one point.
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The Relay
Title: The Relay
Character: Sophomore
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
When the freshman girls beat the sophomore girls in the big relay race, the 'Frosh' start lording it over the 'Sophs.' Will the 'Sophs' take that kind of treatment? Not a chance!
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Around the Bases
Title: Around the Bases
Character: Calford Baseball Player
Released: January 3, 1927
Type: Movie