Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

Born: January 19, 1895
Died: March 1, 1962
in Grange, Mississippi, USA
From Wikipedia

Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily was featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones.

Movies for Roscoe Ates...

The Ladies Man
Title: The Ladies Man
Character: Pet Shop Owner
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
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The Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Sid
Released: May 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his parents and even more distressed when he learns that Pete has run away from the neighbor who was tending him. But Pete has plans to travel to Los Angeles on his own.
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Title: Man with a Camera
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
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Title: Lawman
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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The Sheepman
Title: The Sheepman
Character: Town Loafer (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
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Title: Maverick
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: M Squad
Character: Edwin Winkler
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: TV
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Barber
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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The Big Caper
Title: The Big Caper
Character: Falkenburg
Released: March 28, 1957
Type: Movie
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
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Title: State Trooper
Released: September 25, 1956
Type: TV
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
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Come Next Spring
Title: Come Next Spring
Character: Shorty Wilkins
Released: March 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
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Lucy Gallant
Title: Lucy Gallant
Character: Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Ben White
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Zack Martin
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Tavern Customer
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Piano Player
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Pop Henderson
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Character: Wagon Driver
Released: February 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
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Those Redheads from Seattle
Title: Those Redheads from Seattle
Character: Dan Taylor
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Title: The Stranger Wore a Gun
Character: Jake Hooper
Released: July 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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The Blazing Forest
Title: The Blazing Forest
Character: Beans
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Father's Wild Game
Title: Father's Wild Game
Character: Rancher
Released: December 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
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Hills of Oklahoma
Title: Hills of Oklahoma
Character: Dismal - the Cook
Released: June 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined herds of the ranchers to the nearest railhead when he runs into trouble. Singing cowboy Rex Allen stars as a newly appointed leader of a cattleman's association who finds himself battling a greedy meat-packer (Robert Karnes) and his father (Robert Emmett Keane) for fair passage through the hills of Oklahoma.
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Thunder in the Pines
Title: Thunder in the Pines
Character: Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
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Inner Sanctum
Title: Inner Sanctum
Character: Willie
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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The Tioga Kid
Title: The Tioga Kid
Character: Soapy
Released: June 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into Joe Morino and his gang of rustlers at the same time Tioga arrives to cut himself into Morino's game. But Morino doesn't give in and in the showdown, Eddie and the Kid find themselves on the same side.
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The Hawk of Powder River
Title: The Hawk of Powder River
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Carlson) who's been targeted for murder by a notorious bandit known as "The Hawk".
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The Westward Trail
Title: The Westward Trail
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: March 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his sister's name to the deed and sells it to Larson. Eddie knows there is silver ore in the area and that Lawson, who killed the Sheriff, is out to get all the ranches. When Lawson appoints himself the new Sheriff, Eddie organizes the ranchers to fight Lawson and his men.
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Tornado Range
Title: Tornado Range
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: February 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the following year by Eagle-Lion. Cast as a troubleshooter for the U.S. Land Office, Dean is assigned to settle a deadly range war. Sure enough, the warring homesteaders and cattlemen are being whipped into a frenzy by a third party, who hopes to "divide and conquer," claiming the land for himself. Surprisingly, all-purpose PRC villain George Cheseboro isn't the culprit in this one; instead, he's cast as the father of heroine Jennifer Holt. Roscoe Ates is once more on hand for some questionable comedy relief.
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Check Your Guns
Title: Check Your Guns
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: January 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
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Shadow Valley
Title: Shadow Valley
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: November 29, 1947
Type: Movie
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters. This time, the star plays as U.S. marshal who comes to the rescue of the standard damsel in distress (Jennifer Holt, sister of Tim and daughter of Jack). The double-dyed villain (George Cheseboro) is a crooked lawyer (and former train robber) who wants to lay claim to the heroine's ranch.
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Black Hills
Title: Black Hills
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: October 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby's robbery attempt, Kirby forces the assistant land agent Tuttle to sell the ranch to him. But Eddie learns of the forgery thru Tuttle's boss and goes after Kirby.
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West to Glory
Title: West to Glory
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: April 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Two con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez diamond from Don Lopez. With the drought, Lopez has sold all of his other jewels for gold so that he can take his people to a better place to live and work. Dean and Soapy try to protect Lopez, but Avery and his gang steal the gold and look forward to stealing the diamond necklace. When Maria offers to become partners with Barrit, it looks bad for Lopez.
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Range Beyond the Blue
Title: Range Beyond the Blue
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: March 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take it upon themselves to champion the cause of stage-line owner Margie Rodgers (Helen Mowery), who's being victimized by an unknown villain. Dean suspects that there's more to the case than mere robbery, and he's right: someone wants to gain control of Margie's business, and that someone is?
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Wild Country
Title: Wild Country
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: January 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one like it. This gets Soapy arrested as soon as he rides into town but it leads Eddie to Varney and he realizes Varney will lead him to Caxton.
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Wild West
Title: Wild West
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: December 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop them. When Eddie and the boys catch three of Dawson's men destroying telegraph equipment, the Judge releases them and this leads to the showdown between the two sides.
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Stars Over Texas
Title: Stars Over Texas
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with sidekicks Soapy (Roscoe Ates) and Waco (Lee Bennett. The latter bears a striking resemblance to Lawrence ranch foreman Bert Ford (also Bennett), who has been the target of several assassination attempts. Rancher Lawrence (Lee Roberts) and Eddie decide that Waco shall impersonate Ford, who is hiding out in a hotel room.
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Driftin' River
Title: Driftin' River
Character: Soapy
Released: October 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed to the ranch of J.C. Morgan (Shirley Patterson to buy cavalry remounts for the Army. At the ranch, they find out that J.C. is a girl. The nearby town of Dow City is under the control of a lawless trio headed by Trigger (Lee Roberts, Clem Kensington (Foxy Callahan) and Joe Morino (Dennis Moore). A member of the gang is Tucson Brown (Lee Bennett), one of J.C.'s trusted hands. When Eddie decides to buy the horses, Tucson steals the herd to prevent the sale. Soldiers, sent to investigate, are brutally murdered. The aroused townspeople elect Tennessee (William Fawcett, J.C.'s foreman, as sheriff. When the outlaws murder Tennessee, Eddie and Soapy, along with the reformed Tucson, swing into action.
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Down Missouri Way
Title: Down Missouri Way
Character: Pappy
Released: August 15, 1946
Type: Movie
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.
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Tumbleweed Trail
Title: Tumbleweed Trail
Character: Soapy Jones
Released: July 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order to secure the ranch, which is believed to hold large silver deposits, the scheming relative contracts to have Ryan killed. He then presents a forged will to the court naming himself as the sole heir. Shocked by the tide of events, Ryan's two rightful heirs, his grown daughter Robin and young son "Freckles" are determined to remain on their father's property. Eddie and his sidekick, Soapy Jones, arrive on the scene in time to enter the fight on the side of Robin and "Freckles."
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Colorado Serenade
Title: Colorado Serenade
Character: Soapy
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job and they are aided by undercover man Nevada.
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Can't Help Singing
Title: Can't Help Singing
Character: Lemuel (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1944
Type: Movie
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1944
Type: Movie
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Police Chief Dan Cady
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: George Reynolds (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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I'll Sell My Life
Title: I'll Sell My Life
Character: Happy Hogan
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
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Reg'lar Fellers
Title: Reg'lar Fellers
Character: Emory McQuade
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Lafe
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: May 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Janitor Changing Pictures (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Jailer Guffy
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Ike Wayfish
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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I Want a Divorce
Title: I Want a Divorce
Character: Process Server
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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The Cowboy from Sundown
Title: The Cowboy from Sundown
Character: Deputy Gloomy Day
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Chips
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Bert Dillon
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
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You're Next!
Title: You're Next!
Character: Mr. Tillson
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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Rancho Grande
Title: Rancho Grande
Character: Ranch Hand
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Three Texas Steers
Title: Three Texas Steers
Character: Sheriff Brown
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Title: The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Title: The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Jim Blakely
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
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Riders of the Black Hills
Title: Riders of the Black Hills
Character: Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Gander Hopkins
Released: January 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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On the Wagon
Title: On the Wagon
Character: Elmer
Released: August 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
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Why Pay Rent?
Title: Why Pay Rent?
Character: Elmer Whipple
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
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The People's Enemy
Title: The People's Enemy
Character: Slip Laflin
Released: April 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
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Dizzy & Daffy
Title: Dizzy & Daffy
Character: 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: Tommy Logan
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Title: So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Character: Elmer Whipple
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.
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She Made Her Bed
Title: She Made Her Bed
Character: Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.
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Merry Wives of Reno
Title: Merry Wives of Reno
Character: The Trapper
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Fish
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Signing 'em Up
Title: Signing 'em Up
Character: Himself
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Golden Harvest
Title: Golden Harvest
Character: Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Press Photographer (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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Scarlet River
Title: Scarlet River
Character: Ulysses
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
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What! No Beer?
Title: What! No Beer?
Character: Schultz
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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Lucky Devils
Title: Lucky Devils
Character: Gabby
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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The Past of Mary Holmes
Title: The Past of Mary Holmes
Character: Bill-poster Klondike
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her eccentric behavior, Mary breeds geese, and is thus known in her neighborhood as 'The Goose Woman'. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey, who works as a commercial artist, announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she becomes torn with jealousy and threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Bush (as Rosco Ates)
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
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Sham Poo, the Magician
Title: Sham Poo, the Magician
Character: Tourist
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud celery-crunching rouses the ire of Jerry Mandy, aka Sham Poo the magician.
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Renegades of the West
Title: Renegades of the West
Character: Dr. Henry Fawcett
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
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Come on Danger!
Title: Come on Danger!
Character: Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Slippery Sam Brown
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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The Roadhouse Murder
Title: The Roadhouse Murder
Character: Edmund Joyce
Released: April 28, 1932
Type: Movie
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.
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Young Bride
Title: Young Bride
Character: Pool Room Bartender Mike
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Freaks
Title: Freaks
Character: Roscoe
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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Ladies of the Jury
Title: Ladies of the Jury
Character: Andrew MacKaig
Released: February 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Ike Wilkins
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Rusty
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
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The Champ
Title: The Champ
Character: Sponge
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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The Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Rosco
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Mr. Wilson
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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A Free Soul
Title: A Free Soul
Character: Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Politics
Title: Politics
Character: Peter Higgins
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Ticket Agent
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Old Stuff
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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Those Three French Girls
Title: Those Three French Girls
Character: Elmer (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
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Check and Double Check
Title: Check and Double Check
Character: Brother Arthur
Released: October 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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Soup to Nuts
Title: Soup to Nuts
Character: Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
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Love in the Rough
Title: Love in the Rough
Character: Proprietor
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
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The Big House
Title: The Big House
Character: Putnam
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
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City Girl
Title: City Girl
Character: Reaper
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
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Title: The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass is an American 1950 live broadcast western television series starring Russell Hayden, former Country music singer Eddie Dean, and Riley Hill as Marshal #1, Marshal #2, and Marshal #3, respectively. Hayden is not identified by a character name. Dean uses his own name in the series, and Hill is known as "Riley Roberts". The program hence went through three leading actors in its six-month run. Roscoe Ates played Deputy Roscoe; Andy Parker, Andy, and Bert Wenland, Bud Glover. Jan Sterling, then Jane Adrian, appeared at the age of twenty-nine as Ruth, the girlfriend of the 55-year-old Roscoe. The Internet Movie Data Base lists only the premiere episode of The Marshal of Gunsight Pass: "Shotgun Messenger", which aired on March 12, 1950. Other actors appearing in the episode were Hugh Hooker as David Clay, Marshall Reed as Larry Thomas, and Steve Conte as The Road Agent. Three actors made their only career screen appearances on The Marshal of Gunsight Pass: Eddie Coffman as "The Gunfighter", Greg Rogers as Cal Darby, and Marcia Wren as "The Woman".