John Litel

John Litel

Born: December 30, 1892
Died: February 3, 1972
in Albany, Wisconsin, USA
John Litel was an American stage, screen, and television actor. From 1919 to 1936 he performed in several plays on Broadway. In 1929 he began appearing in films and was in over 200 movies throughout his career. Litel often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops and district attorneys. He appeared in many television series. John Litel's acting career concluded in 1967.

Movies for John Litel...

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Nevada Smith
Title: Nevada Smith
Character: Doctor
Released: June 10, 1966
Type: Movie
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to shoot on time and correct.
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The Sons of Katie Elder
Title: The Sons of Katie Elder
Character: Minister
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
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Title: Branded
Released: January 24, 1965
Type: TV
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
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Title: Branded
Character: Gen. James Reed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1965
Type: TV
Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
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Rendezvous in Space
Title: Rendezvous in Space
Character: Priest
Released: September 10, 1964
Type: Movie
This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
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The Gun Hawk
Title: The Gun Hawk
Character: Drunk - Madden's father
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
When his town-drunk father is killed by the Sully brothers, gunfighter Blaine Madden exacts his revenge but has to flee, aided by a young aspiring gunslinger, when the sheriff tries to arrest him.
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Title: Vacation Playhouse
Character: Albert P. Leviathan
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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Title: The Virginian
Character: Wade Hammill
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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Title: The Virginian
Character: Finley
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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Lover Come Back
Title: Lover Come Back
Character: Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
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Pocketful of Miracles
Title: Pocketful of Miracles
Character: Police Inspector McCrary
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Title: Hazel
Released: September 28, 1961
Type: TV
Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character: Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: Stagecoach West
Character: Dan Murchison
Released: October 4, 1960
Type: TV
Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David "Davey" Kane, joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane, a captain in the Union Army, while Perry had fought for the Confederate States of America. The one-hour black-and-white program was offered at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays opposite NBC's Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Rogers became well-known a dozen years later on M*A*S*H, and Bray later portrayed the forest ranger Corey Stuart on Lassie from 1964–1969, both on CBS. Child actor Richard Eyer had starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Friendly Persuasion and Desperate Hours. Stagecoach West was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television. It is believed that the series was cancelled despite the high quality of its production because of the glut of westerns on television at the time that it aired. The same fate had fallen on CBS's Johnny Ringo, a 1959 one-season spin-off of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: Lock-Up
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: TV
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.
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Title: Bonanza
Character: Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington
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: Rawhide
Character: James Whitcomb
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Jim Rye
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Houseboat
Title: Houseboat
Character: Mr. William Farnsworth
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Character: Colonel Richard Gaunt
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Bronco
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Judge George Healy
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Clint Davis
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Asa Morgan
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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Decision at Sundown
Title: Decision at Sundown
Character: Charles Summerton
Released: November 10, 1957
Type: Movie
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
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Title: Zorro
Character: The Governor
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Zorro
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Trackdown
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: TV
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Judge Somervell
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: Maverick
Character: Ellsworth Greeley
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: Maverick
Character: Judge Joshua Thayer
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: Perry Mason
Character: Judge
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Hired Gun
Title: The Hired Gun
Character: Mace Beldon
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: Movie
A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Hank Tatum
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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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Archie Crenshaw
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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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Martin Calder
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Comanche
Title: Comanche
Character: Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
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The Wild Dakotas
Title: The Wild Dakotas
Character: Morgan Wheeler
Released: February 28, 1956
Type: Movie
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
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Runaway Daughters
Title: Runaway Daughters
Character: George Barton
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from misdemeanors into serious crime - and will suffer for it. Sometimes, repentance comes too late.
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Texas Lady
Title: Texas Lady
Character: Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
Released: November 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
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Title: Cheyenne
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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The Kentuckian
Title: The Kentuckian
Character: Pleasant Tuesday Babson
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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Double Jeopardy
Title: Double Jeopardy
Character: Emmett Devery
Released: June 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Judge Sam Crowley
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Sitting Bull
Title: Sitting Bull
Character: Wilford Howell
Released: October 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf. Written by Jim Beaver
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Jack Slade
Title: Jack Slade
Character: Judge Davidson
Released: November 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
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Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Frank Hobbs
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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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Phillip Saunders
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: Matt Towner
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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Title: My Hero
Released: November 8, 1952
Type: TV
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Dr. Silkworth
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Van Alten
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mayor
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Scaramouche
Title: Scaramouche
Character: Dr. Dubuque
Released: May 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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Jet Job
Title: Jet Job
Character: Sam Bentley
Released: April 6, 1952
Type: Movie
Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army contract as Bentley, and offers a $500 bonus to their publicity woman Marge Stevens if she can entice Joe into quitting Bentley to join their company. When Joe takes repeated unnecessary risks in the air, Bentley fires him and Joe goes to work for the competitor. He almost loses his life when the inferior plane he is testing fails to function at a high altitude, a fault that the designer had anticipated but had let get by because of his greed in getting the contract.
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Flight To Mars
Title: Flight To Mars
Character: Dr. Lane
Released: November 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Harvey Cromwell
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Little Egypt
Title: Little Egypt
Character: Shuster
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Two Dollar Bettor
Title: Two Dollar Bettor
Character: John Hewitt
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
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Take Care of My Little Girl
Title: Take Care of My Little Girl
Character: John Erickson (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: John B. Jones
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Title: The Groom Wore Spurs
Character: Uncle George
Released: March 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
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Cuban Fireball
Title: Cuban Fireball
Character: Pomeroy Sr.
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Dr. Robbins
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Title: The Fuller Brush Girl
Character: Mr. Watkins
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Character: Police Chief Sam Tolgate
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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The Sundowners
Title: The Sundowners
Character: John Gall
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: John Chandler
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Title: Mary Ryan, Detective
Character: Capt. Billings
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
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Rusty's Birthday
Title: Rusty's Birthday
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A lost dog tries to find his way back to his beloved master in the final film of the Rusty series.
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The Gal Who Took the West
Title: The Gal Who Took the West
Character: Colonel Logan
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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Outpost in Morocco
Title: Outpost in Morocco
Character: Colonel Pascal
Released: May 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
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Rusty Saves a Life
Title: Rusty Saves a Life
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
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Shamrock Hill
Title: Shamrock Hill
Character: Ralph Judson
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
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The Valiant Hombre
Title: The Valiant Hombre
Character: Lon Lansdell
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
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Rusty Leads the Way
Title: Rusty Leads the Way
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
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Triple Threat
Title: Triple Threat
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An arrogant college football player turns professional, taking his bad attitude with him.
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Pitfall
Title: Pitfall
Character: District Attorney
Released: August 11, 1948
Type: Movie
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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Key Largo
Title: Key Largo
Character: Dispatcher (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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I, Jane Doe
Title: I, Jane Doe
Character: Horton
Released: May 25, 1948
Type: Movie
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: Clark
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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My Dog Rusty
Title: My Dog Rusty
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: April 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Faithful dog Rusty helps his master's father win a mayoral race.
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Cass Timberlane
Title: Cass Timberlane
Character: Webb Wargate
Released: November 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Joe Bland, FBI Agent
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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Heaven Only Knows
Title: Heaven Only Knows
Character: Reverend Wainwright
Released: September 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
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The Guilty
Title: The Guilty
Character: Alex Tremholt
Released: March 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Tom Clancy
Released: March 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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The Beginning or the End
Title: The Beginning or the End
Character: K.T. Keller
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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Lighthouse
Title: Lighthouse
Character: Hank Armitage
Released: January 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Two men and a woman form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
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Swell Guy
Title: Swell Guy
Character: Arthur Tyler
Released: December 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Medical Director
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Okay for Sound
Title: Okay for Sound
Released: September 7, 1946
Type: Movie
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
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The Return of Rusty
Title: The Return of Rusty
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: June 27, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Czechoslovak orphan, Loddy Bicek, befriended by an American army sergeant, is brought into the United States as a stowaway by the soldier. He is apprehended, but escapes and makes his way to the sergeant's home town. There, he is befriended by young Danny Mitchell and his dog, Rusty, a K-9 veteran of World War II. A third boy reports Loddy to the authorities, and when Loddy tries to run away, he falls into a deep ravine.
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She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Dean Fowler
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
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Night in Paradise
Title: Night in Paradise
Character: Archon
Released: May 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
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The Madonna's Secret
Title: The Madonna's Secret
Character: Lt. Roberts
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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Smooth as Silk
Title: Smooth as Silk
Character: Stephen Elliott
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Character: Charlie Bell
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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The Enchanted Forest
Title: The Enchanted Forest
Character: Ed Henderson
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Pastoral fantasy about a hermit who prefers the serene company of the woods and its denizens to the world outside.
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Northwest Trail
Title: Northwest Trail
Character: Sergeant Means
Released: November 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt. Means orders him to leave.
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The Daltons Ride Again
Title: The Daltons Ride Again
Character: Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.
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The Crimson Canary
Title: The Crimson Canary
Character: Roger Quinn
Released: November 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
Title: The Crime Doctor's Warning
Character: Inspector Dawes
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
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Salome, Where She Danced
Title: Salome, Where She Danced
Character: General Lee
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: Swearengen Jones
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.
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Faces in the Fog
Title: Faces in the Fog
Character: Dr. Mason
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
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Murder in the Blue Room
Title: Murder in the Blue Room
Character: Frank Baldrich
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
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My Buddy
Title: My Buddy
Character: Father Jim Donnelly
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts off his marriage and works for a bootlegger. He is forced to take a rap for his boss, goes to prison, and forms a gang.
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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Title: Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Character: Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
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Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Title: Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Character: Mr. Aldrich
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Title: Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: January 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
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Where Are Your Children?
Title: Where Are Your Children?
Character: Judge Edmonds
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training. She accepts an invitation to go on a ride to San Diego with her friends Herb (Neyle Morrow), Opal (Evelyn Eaton)and Jerry (Jimmy Zahner) but doesn't know the car has been stolen.
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Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
Title: Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Dr. Harrison
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Submarine Base
Title: Submarine Base
Character: James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
Released: July 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
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Henry Aldrich Swings It
Title: Henry Aldrich Swings It
Character: Mr. Aldrich
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
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Crime Doctor
Title: Crime Doctor
Character: Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
Released: June 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Title: Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Dr. Blaine
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Peter Rolf
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.
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The Boss of Big Town
Title: The Boss of Big Town
Character: Michael Lynn
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: John Gardiner
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Men of Texas
Title: Men of Texas
Character: Colonel Colbert Scott
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
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March On, America!
Title: March On, America!
Character: Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.
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For the Common Defense!
Title: For the Common Defense!
Character: Subprefect Santiago Castillo
Released: June 20, 1942
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
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Henry and Dizzy
Title: Henry and Dizzy
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Title: A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Character: Norman Hadley
Released: May 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Title: The Mystery of Marie Roget
Character: Henri Beauvais
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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Kid Glove Killer
Title: Kid Glove Killer
Character: Matty
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Soldiers in White
Title: Soldiers in White
Character: Charles Anthony
Released: February 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Spencer Merlin
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Sealed Lips
Title: Sealed Lips
Character: Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Gen. Phil Sheridan
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Henry Aldrich for President
Title: Henry Aldrich for President
Character: Sam Aldrich
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: Tim Gordon
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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The Big Boss
Title: The Big Boss
Character: Bob Dugan
Released: April 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Why did the Governor want to resign?
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: John Wade
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
Title: The Trial of Mary Dugan
Character: Mr. West
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
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Father's Son
Title: Father's Son
Character: William Emory
Released: February 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Martin
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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March On, Marines
Title: March On, Marines
Character: Colonel Myers
Released: December 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam. He soon finds out that his younger brother, Jimmy Lansing, just recently made sergeant as well, will also be taking the exam with him. The Lansing brothers are hard working and patriotic military men and both deserve to be accepted into the Academy, but they learn there is only one spot available. As entrance into Annapolis is dependent both on their exam results and their record, they are encouraged by the base colonel to enter into a friendly rivalry for the three weeks on the base prior to the exam. They also enter into a friendly rivalry for the affections of Penelope Hayworth, the admiral's daughter.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Charles Bryant
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Father Is A Prince
Title: Father Is A Prince
Character: Dr. Mark Stone
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Committee Chairman
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Money and the Woman
Title: Money and the Woman
Character: Jerremy Helm
Released: August 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Harry McNamara
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
Title: The Man Who Talked Too Much
Character: District Attorney Dickson
Released: July 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
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Gambling on the High Seas
Title: Gambling on the High Seas
Character: U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Murder in the Air
Title: Murder in the Air
Character: Saxby
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a tattoo of a circle and arrow. This is a tattoo for saboteurs for hire and Brass must impersonate the dead man to find out what his orders are. As Steve Coe, he meets with the band of enemy agents in California and everything goes well until the wife of the dead 'Hobo' shows up. Luckily, Gabby is able to save Brass and Brass learns what is his assignment. He is to board the USN airship 'Mason', which is testing the super secret Inertia Projector, and destroy the airship.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Reverend Thomas Storm
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Flight Angels
Title: Flight Angels
Character: Dr. Barclay
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Quigley
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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It All Came True
Title: It All Came True
Character: Mr. Roberts
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Marshall
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Prison Chaplain
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Captain Mangan
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Dr. Brett
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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The Return of Doctor X
Title: The Return of Doctor X
Character: Dr. Flegg
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
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On Dress Parade
Title: On Dress Parade
Character: Col. Michael Riker
Released: November 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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One Hour To Live
Title: One Hour To Live
Character: Rudolph Spain
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Prosecutor
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Title: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Character: Carson Drew
Released: September 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Patrick Henry
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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Old Glory
Title: Old Glory
Character: Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Porky Pig balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Title: Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Character: Carson Drew
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Matt Cole
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Robert Strickland
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: Attorney Carey
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Chief Agent Tom Saxby
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Carson Drew
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Commander Clark
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Bill Appleton
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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The Declaration of Independence
Title: The Declaration of Independence
Character: Thomas Jefferson
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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Nancy Drew… Detective
Title: Nancy Drew… Detective
Character: Carson Drew
Released: November 19, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Broadway Musketeers
Title: Broadway Musketeers
Character: Stan Dowling
Released: October 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
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Valley of the Giants
Title: Valley of the Giants
Character: Hendricks
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: John C. Rudlin
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
Title: Little Miss Thoroughbred
Character: Nelson "Nails" Morgan
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Father Neil Connor
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Jean La Cour
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Love, Honor and Behave
Title: Love, Honor and Behave
Character: Jim Blake
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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A Slight Case of Murder
Title: A Slight Case of Murder
Character: Mr. Post, banker
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Ralph Ferris
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Inspector Lane
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Lt. Philip Nolan
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: 'Gat' Brady
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Charpentier
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: Dr. Eugene Forde
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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Slim
Title: Slim
Character: Wyatt Ranstead
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Gordon
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Victor Shanley
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Tommy Smith
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Give Me Liberty
Title: Give Me Liberty
Character: Patrick Henry
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
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Fugitive in the Sky
Title: Fugitive in the Sky
Character: Mike Phelan
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
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Wayward
Title: Wayward
Character: Robert 'Bob' Daniels
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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On the Border
Title: On the Border
Character: Dave (as John B. Litel)
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
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Oh Darling!
Title: Oh Darling!
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva Thacher and Al Thompson are tracking down their eloping daughter. It's a constant barrage of slamming doors and such trapping of the stage farce.
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Don't Believe It
Title: Don't Believe It
Character: Dick
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his wife and brother have conspired against him for revenge.
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Always Faithful
Title: Always Faithful
Character: Wayne
Released: December 29, 1929
Type: Movie
The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
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Finders Keepers
Title: Finders Keepers
Character: (as John B. Litel)
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
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The Sleeping Porch
Title: The Sleeping Porch
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.