Samuel S. Hinds

Samuel S. Hinds

Born: April 3, 1875
Died: October 13, 1948
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Samuel Southey Hinds (April 4, 1875 – October 13, 1948) was an American actor and former lawyer. He was often cast as kindly authoritarian figures and appeared in over 200 films until his death.

Hinds was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joseph E. Hinds and Mary A. Beetham Hinds.

He was a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard Law School and worked for over 32 years as a lawyer before becoming a professional actor. After he lost most of his money in the financial crisis of 1929, Hinds retired as a lawyer and joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse. He started acting in Broadway shows at age 54.

Hinds is perhaps best remembered for playing Peter Bailey, the father of James Stewart and founder of the Bailey Building and Loan, in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and for his part as Paul Sycamore in You Can't Take It With You (1938), both films directed by Frank Capra. Hinds was also known for his roles in the Abbott & Costello films such as Buck Privates (1941), Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) and Pardon My Sarong (1942). He also portrayed Lew Ayres' father in the Dr. Kildare film series during the early 1940s. Hinds mostly played supporting roles, often kind and dignified authority figures; often lawyers, doctors, mayors, judges or the father of the main figure.

Hinds' first film was If I Had a Million (1932); his second film was The Road Is Open Again (1933) where he portrayed President Woodrow Wilson. His earlier career was reflected in the role of Judge Thatcher, tortured by the mad Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi) in The Raven (1935).

Hinds acted in a total of 214 films. His last film was The Bribe, released in 1949, after his death.

Hinds died of pneumonia in Pasadena, California, on October 13, 1948 at age 73. He was married to Dorothy Cruickshack, they had two children.

Movies for Samuel S. Hinds...

Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Title: Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Character: 'Manhattan Melodrama' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.
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The Bribe
Title: The Bribe
Character: Dr. Warren
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
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The Boy with Green Hair
Title: The Boy with Green Hair
Character: Dr. R.T. Knudson
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
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The Return of October
Title: The Return of October
Character: Judge Northridge
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
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Perilous Waters
Title: Perilous Waters
Character: Dana Ferris
Released: February 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
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Call Northside 777
Title: Call Northside 777
Character: Judge Charles Moulton (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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Time Out of Mind
Title: Time Out of Mind
Character: Dr. Weber
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Sheriff Drum
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Pa Bailey
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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White Tie and Tails
Title: White Tie and Tails
Character: Mr. Bradford
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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Danger Woman
Title: Danger Woman
Character: Dean Albert Sears
Released: July 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
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Inside Job
Title: Inside Job
Character: Judge Kincaid
Released: June 14, 1946
Type: Movie
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
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The Runaround
Title: The Runaround
Character: Norman Hampton
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
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Strange Conquest
Title: Strange Conquest
Character: Dr. Graves
Released: April 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
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Blonde Alibi
Title: Blonde Alibi
Character: Prof. Slater
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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Little Miss Big
Title: Little Miss Big
Character: Wilfred Elliott
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
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Scarlet Street
Title: Scarlet Street
Character: Charles Pringle
Released: December 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Mr. Jessup
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Men in Her Diary
Title: Men in Her Diary
Character: Judge Bergen
Released: September 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
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The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Title: The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Character: Dr. Adams
Released: August 17, 1945
Type: Movie
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Character: Mr. Wiggam, Waring Lawyer
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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Secret Agent X-9
Title: Secret Agent X-9
Character: Solo
Released: July 24, 1945
Type: Movie
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
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Swing Out, Sister
Title: Swing Out, Sister
Character: Rufus Mariman
Released: May 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
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Escape in the Desert
Title: Escape in the Desert
Character: Gramp
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Garrett Garfield
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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Frisco Sal
Title: Frisco Sal
Character: Doc
Released: February 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder.
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The Singing Sheriff
Title: The Singing Sheriff
Character: Seth
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Colonel Andrew J. Morgan
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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Jungle Woman
Title: Jungle Woman
Character: Coroner
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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Cobra Woman
Title: Cobra Woman
Character: Father Paul
Released: May 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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The Great Alaskan Mystery
Title: The Great Alaskan Mystery
Character: Herman Brock
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.
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To the People of the United States
Title: To the People of the United States
Character: Harrison - Member of the Local Draft Board (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
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Ladies Courageous
Title: Ladies Courageous
Character: Brig. Gen. Wade
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
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Chip Off the Old Block
Title: Chip Off the Old Block
Character: Dean Manning
Released: February 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Sing a Jingle
Title: Sing a Jingle
Character: J.P. Crane
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane, the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
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Son of Dracula
Title: Son of Dracula
Character: Judge Simmons
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Mr. Fairchild
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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Larceny with Music
Title: Larceny with Music
Character: Brewster
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Judge Towne
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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We've Never Been Licked
Title: We've Never Been Licked
Character: Colonel Jason Craig
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly knock off. Once adjusted, Craig falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter, only to find she is in love with his roommate.
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Hers to Hold
Title: Hers to Hold
Character: Dr. Crane
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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Mister Big
Title: Mister Big
Character: Jeremy Taswell
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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Good Morning, Judge
Title: Good Morning, Judge
Character: J.P. Gordon
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
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Follow the Band
Title: Follow the Band
Character: Pop Turnbull
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
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He's My Guy
Title: He's My Guy
Character: Johnson
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Colonel Brainard
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Carruthers
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Pittsburgh
Title: Pittsburgh
Character: Morgan Prentiss (President, Prentiss Steel)
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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Pardon My Sarong
Title: Pardon My Sarong
Character: Chief Kolua
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
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Lady in a Jam
Title: Lady in a Jam
Character: Dr. Brewster
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Judge Stillman
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Grand Central Murder
Title: Grand Central Murder
Character: Roger Furness
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
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Kid Glove Killer
Title: Kid Glove Killer
Character: Mayor Daniels
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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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Dudley Crispin
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Frisco Lil
Title: Frisco Lil
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Sam Shaw
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Jail House Blues
Title: Jail House Blues
Character: Mr. Thomas Daniels
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: The CINCUS [Ch. 1]
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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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Showboat Captain (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Road Agent
Title: Road Agent
Character: Banker Sam Leavitt
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
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Mob Town
Title: Mob Town
Character: Luther Bryson
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Wilbur Grayson
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Uncle
Released: August 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Title: Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.
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Blossoms in the Dust
Title: Blossoms in the Dust
Character: Mr. George Kahley
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Andy Beeler
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
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Tight Shoes
Title: Tight Shoes
Character: Horace Grover, 'the Brain'
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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Adventure in Washington
Title: Adventure in Washington
Character: Se. Henry Owen
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Governor Howard
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Dr. John Lawrence
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Felix Darren
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Maj. Gen. Emerson
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Know For Sure
Title: Know For Sure
Character: Dr. Perkins
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: George Preston
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Governor
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Title: I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Character: George P. Morgan
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their parents. On the nights they are to go out, they sneak out with their respective true loves. It all works well until the unwilling couple find themselves falling in love for real. songs include: "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now", and "Got Romance".
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Von Zimmel
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Angeen
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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Ski Patrol
Title: Ski Patrol
Character: Captain Per Vallgren
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Title: Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: Sidney Simpson
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Zanzibar
Title: Zanzibar
Character: Dale
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Court Aldrich
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Judge Slade
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Title: The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
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First Love
Title: First Love
Character: Mr. Parker
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
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One Hour To Live
Title: One Hour To Live
Character: Commissioner Cromwell
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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Hero for a Day
Title: Hero for a Day
Character: "Dutch" Bronson
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
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Rio
Title: Rio
Character: Lamartine
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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Hawaiian Nights
Title: Hawaiian Nights
Character: Lane
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
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Tropic Fury
Title: Tropic Fury
Character: J.P. Waterford
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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The Under-Pup
Title: The Under-Pup
Character: Dr. McKay
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Career
Title: Career
Character: Clem Bartholomew
Released: July 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Edward P. Nash
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Mr. Gilder
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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Newsboys' Home
Title: Newsboys' Home
Character: Howard Price Dutton
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
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Secrets of a Nurse
Title: Secrets of a Nurse
Character: Judge Corrigan
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Title: Little Tough Guys in Society
Character: Judge
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Capt. Kenny
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Dr. Stephen Kildare
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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Swing That Cheer
Title: Swing That Cheer
Character: Coach McGann
Released: October 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.
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Personal Secretary
Title: Personal Secretary
Character: Alan Lemke
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Paul Sycamore
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Sylvia's Attorney
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Mr. William Duncan Sr.
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Wives Under Suspicion
Title: Wives Under Suspicion
Character: David Marrow
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
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The Devil's Party
Title: The Devil's Party
Character: Judge Henry Harrison
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Test Pilot
Title: Test Pilot
Character: General Ross
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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Forbidden Valley
Title: Forbidden Valley
Character: Jeff Hazzard
Released: February 13, 1938
Type: Movie
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
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Double Danger
Title: Double Danger
Character: Police Commissioner David Theron
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Brandon Williams
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Oh, Oh, Oklahoma Actor (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Prescription for Romance
Title: Prescription for Romance
Character: Major Goddard
Released: December 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Richard Gates Sr.
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: Rodding Carter
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Henry Sims
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Jonathan Clark
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
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The Road Back
Title: The Road Back
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Admiral Furness
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Steven Ranger
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Henry Borden
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Judge
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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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Warden
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Uncle Joel Fenno
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Artemus Todd
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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The Longest Night
Title: The Longest Night
Character: Hastings
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Eli Decker
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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His Brother's Wife
Title: His Brother's Wife
Character: Doctor Claybourne
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to marry but Cliff's brother is convinced Rita is no good and forces Cliff to fulfill his agreement to do research in Africa in exchange for paying gambling debt. Rita, Cliff and brother are furious with each other, but Rita and Cliff are still in love.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Robert Halloway
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Commander Mosely
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: Guili Ruffano
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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Woman Trap
Title: Woman Trap
Character: Senator Andrews
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
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The Reckless Way
Title: The Reckless Way
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend is upset--he just wants to marry her and settle down to a life of domestic bliss. But she has stars in her eyes--and soon learns to use publicity to create a new movie star persona. Throughout all this, the sappy boyfriend is always waiting nearby--hoping that she'll come to her senses and give up this new life.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Rev. Fellows
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).
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In Person
Title: In Person
Character: Dr. Aaron Sylvester
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: John Carter, Assistant Secretary of War
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Husband
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Dr. McClintick
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Two-Fisted
Title: Two-Fisted
Character: Mr. Pritchard
Released: October 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1936
Character: Captain
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere.
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Annapolis Farewell
Title: Annapolis Farewell
Character: Dr. Bryant
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
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She
Title: She
Character: John Vincey
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire. Picking up Tanya, a guide's daughter, in the frozen Russian arctic, they stumble upon Kor, revealed to be a hidden civilization ruled over by an immortal queen, called She, who believes Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor.
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The Raven
Title: The Raven
Character: Judge Thatcher
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
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College Scandal
Title: College Scandal
Character: Mr. Cummings
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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Private Worlds
Title: Private Worlds
Character: Dr. Arnold
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.
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Strangers All
Title: Strangers All
Character: Charles Green
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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West Point of the Air
Title: West Point of the Air
Character: Secretary of War
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
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Living on Velvet
Title: Living on Velvet
Character: Henry L. Parker
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
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Shadow of Doubt
Title: Shadow of Doubt
Character: Mr. Granby
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Rumba
Title: Rumba
Character: Henry B. Harrison
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show.
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Bordertown
Title: Bordertown
Character: Judge at First Trial
Released: January 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
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Sequoia
Title: Sequoia
Character: Matthew Martin
Released: January 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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Behind the Evidence
Title: Behind the Evidence
Character: J.T. Allen
Released: January 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Colonel Lambeth
Released: December 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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Mills of the Gods
Title: Mills of the Gods
Character: Burroughs
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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A Wicked Woman
Title: A Wicked Woman
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Jim Sloane
Released: September 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Have a Heart
Title: Have a Heart
Character: Dr. Spear
Released: September 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Dr. Owen (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Hat, Coat and Glove
Title: Hat, Coat and Glove
Character: John Walters (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Dean Adams
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Baby Take a Bow
Title: Baby Take a Bow
Character: Warden (Uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Warden of Sing Sing (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Men in White
Title: Men in White
Character: Dr. Gordon
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important than attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Gereb's Father
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Ballard
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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The 9th Guest
Title: The 9th Guest
Character: Dr. Murray Reid
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: New York Film Executive
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
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Straightaway
Title: Straightaway
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a competitor, finds that Turnberg had bribed his top man, Rogan, to lose, and fires him, and hires the Dawsons. His daughter Ann falls for Tim, yet it's Billy that wants her and proposes to her. She says no and declares herself to Tim. At the next big race, Rogan tries to cause Billy to smash, but he does instead, then accuses Tim of being responsible before dying. A police detective decides that Tim had done it so his brother could win, and leaves him one option, his brother must lose the upcoming Indy 500 or he'll know Tim's guilty.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: McAllister
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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The Women in His Life
Title: The Women in His Life
Character: Thomas J. Worthing
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Admiral Farnsworth
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Mr. March
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Dickens
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: O'Farrell
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Hold the Press
Title: Hold the Press
Character: Taylor
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
When newspaper reporter Tim Collins, of the "Post", is slugged while investigating the shooting of a big-time gambler, he sets out to get his man with such determination that he ends up in jail. There, he discovers a "parole racket" which involves a crooked politician, and he faces death to get the story for his paper.
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Berkeley Square
Title: Berkeley Square
Character: The American Ambassador
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Lady for a Day
Title: Lady for a Day
Character: Mayor (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: Stuyvesant (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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One Man's Journey
Title: One Man's Journey
Character: Dr. Babcock
Released: August 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
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This Day and Age
Title: This Day and Age
Character: Mayor
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
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Deluge
Title: Deluge
Character: Chief Forecaster
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
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Bed of Roses
Title: Bed of Roses
Character: Father Doran
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Mr. Beaumont
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Gabriel Over the White House
Title: Gabriel Over the White House
Character: Dr. H.L. Eastman
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
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Murders in the Zoo
Title: Murders in the Zoo
Character: Banquet Guest (Uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Character: Philip Ames
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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The Road Is Open Again
Title: The Road Is Open Again
Character: Woodrow Wilson
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A Songwriter falls asleep while writing a song about the NRA. He dreams that Washington, Lincoln and FDR appear in his room asking him why he wants to write such a song and they're reassuring him that FDR is the right way. When he starts singing his new song, he finds himself alone, but he knows that the FDR will lead the USA back on the road to prosperity.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: Charles - Marquis of Jerningham (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.