Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

Born: November 7, 1903
Died: February 5, 1991
in Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
Dean Jagger was an Academy Award-winning American screen, stage, and television actor.

Movies for Dean Jagger...

'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
Title: 'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
Character: Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Actress Rosemary Clooney reminisces about the making of the classic holiday film White Christmas (1954).
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Evil Town
Title: Evil Town
Character: Doctor Schaeffer
Released: June 2, 1987
Type: Movie
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
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Horrible Horror
Title: Horrible Horror
Character: Armand Louque in 'Revolt of the Zombies'
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Title: St. Elsewhere
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions.
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Alligator
Title: Alligator
Character: Slade
Released: July 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
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Gideon's Trumpet
Title: Gideon's Trumpet
Character: 6th Supreme Court Justice
Released: April 30, 1980
Type: Movie
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
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Game of Death
Title: Game of Death
Character: Dr. Land
Released: March 23, 1978
Type: Movie
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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End of the World
Title: End of the World
Character: Ray Collins
Released: August 1, 1977
Type: Movie
After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
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Title: Hunter
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: TV
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Character: Koehler
Released: February 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
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Dr. Shagetz
Title: Dr. Shagetz
Character: Dr. Shagetz
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Passing through a small town, two young hippie couples stumble upon a town where the old folks all act strange and even stranger things are happening at the local clinic. Filming was completed in 1973 but this original version of the film was barely released two years later under several different titles. It was shot as God Bless Grandpa and Grandma but posters were made for the titles Dr. Shagetz and God Bless Dr. Shagetz, with the "Bless" crossed over and replaced with "Damn."
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Title: Harry O
Released: September 12, 1974
Type: TV
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.
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The Great Lester Boggs
Title: The Great Lester Boggs
Released: September 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malcolm's cross-country motorcycle odyssey - just for the experience - "boggs" down in Arkansas, where he acquires his sidekick, LeRoy; befriends moonshine-drinkin', bi-plane stunt pilot, Lester Boggs; falls in love with level-headed Susan; and, all the while, confounds Sheriff Billy Bob and his department.
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The Hanged Man
Title: The Hanged Man
Character: Josiah Lowe
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Title: I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Character: Jim Wallace
Released: December 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A young priest named mark is sent as a vicar to a native American village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Arnold Edgarton
Released: April 24, 1973
Type: Movie
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Carl Webster
Released: February 26, 1973
Type: Movie
An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome.
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So Sad About Gloria
Title: So Sad About Gloria
Character: Frederick Wellman
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A young woman just released from a mental hospital moves back in with her family. However, she is soon troubled by disturbing visions in which she commits a series of axe murders.
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Title: Kung Fu
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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Title: The Waltons
Character: Professor Bowen
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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The Delphi Bureau
Title: The Delphi Bureau
Character: Matthew Keller
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes. Pilot for short-lived TV series
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The Glass House
Title: The Glass House
Character: Warden Auerbach
Released: February 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Walter Cannell
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Incident in San Francisco
Title: Incident in San Francisco
Character: Sam Baldwin
Released: February 28, 1971
Type: Movie
A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.
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Vanishing Point
Title: Vanishing Point
Character: Prospector
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
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Title: Alias Smith and Jones
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.
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The Brotherhood of the Bell
Title: The Brotherhood of the Bell
Character: Chad Harmon
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
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The Kremlin Letter
Title: The Kremlin Letter
Character: Highwayman
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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Tiger by the Tail
Title: Tiger by the Tail
Character: Top Polk
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
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The Lonely Profession
Title: The Lonely Profession
Character: Charles Van Cleve
Released: October 21, 1969
Type: Movie
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
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Title: Medical Center
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: TV
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
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Smith!
Title: Smith!
Character: Judge James C. Brown
Released: March 21, 1969
Type: Movie
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.
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Day of the Evil Gun
Title: Day of the Evil Gun
Character: Jimmy Noble
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
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Firecreek
Title: Firecreek
Character: Whittier
Released: January 24, 1968
Type: Movie
A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
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First to Fight
Title: First to Fight
Character: Colonel Baseman
Released: January 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Bishop John Atwood
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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Title: Mr. Novak
Character: Principal Albert Vane
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Tony Donovan
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
Title: Billy Rose's Jumbo
Character: John Noble
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: George Davies
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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The Honeymoon Machine
Title: The Honeymoon Machine
Character: Admiral Fitch
Released: August 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch, putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme.
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Parrish
Title: Parrish
Character: Sala Post
Released: May 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
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Elmer Gantry
Title: Elmer Gantry
Character: William L. Morgan
Released: July 7, 1960
Type: Movie
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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Cash McCall
Title: Cash McCall
Character: Grant Austen
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Ed Lindsay
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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The Nun's Story
Title: The Nun's Story
Character: Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
Released: June 18, 1959
Type: Movie
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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King Creole
Title: King Creole
Character: Mr. Fisher
Released: July 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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The Proud Rebel
Title: The Proud Rebel
Character: Harry Burleigh
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman's struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it--and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.
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The Dark Side of the Earth
Title: The Dark Side of the Earth
Character: Anton Rojas
Released: September 19, 1957
Type: Movie
A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.
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Forty Guns
Title: Forty Guns
Character: Sheriff Ned Logan
Released: September 10, 1957
Type: Movie
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
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Bernardine
Title: Bernardine
Character: J. Fullerton Weldy
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
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Armored Attack!
Title: Armored Attack!
Character: as Rodion Pavlov
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
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Three Brave Men
Title: Three Brave Men
Character: John W. Rogers
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
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The Great Man
Title: The Great Man
Character: Philip Carleton
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Bert Ensign
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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X the Unknown
Title: X the Unknown
Character: Dr. Adam Royston
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
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On the Threshold of Space
Title: On the Threshold of Space
Character: Dr. Hugo Thornton
Released: March 29, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even though he's not required to be a subject in the tests. Always remaining a constant source of support, his wife, Pat, accepts his unwavering commitment to scientific progress. When Maj. Ward Thomas becomes the new head of the program, Hollenbeck must convince him of the necessity of taking the extra steps.
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Red Sundown
Title: Red Sundown
Character: Jade Murphy
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Riding into town he finds the only job available is deputy to sheriff Jade Murphy, an honest man caught between small farmers and a local cattle baron. And he has a pretty daughter. So Longmire decides to stay and see if he can use his expertise with firearms for good.
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It's a Dog's Life
Title: It's a Dog's Life
Character: Mr. Wyndham
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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The Eternal Sea
Title: The Eternal Sea
Character: Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
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Bad Day at Black Rock
Title: Bad Day at Black Rock
Character: Tim Horn
Released: January 13, 1955
Type: Movie
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
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White Christmas
Title: White Christmas
Character: General Waverly
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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Private Hell 36
Title: Private Hell 36
Character: Police Capt. Michaels
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
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Executive Suite
Title: Executive Suite
Character: Jesse Q. Grimm
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Harry Holt
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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The Robe
Title: The Robe
Character: Justus
Released: September 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
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: Cavalcade of America
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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It Grows on Trees
Title: It Grows on Trees
Character: Phil Baxter
Released: September 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
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Denver and Rio Grande
Title: Denver and Rio Grande
Character: General William J. Palmer
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
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My Son John
Title: My Son John
Character: Dan Jefferson
Released: April 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In this Cold War drama, a woman suspects her son is a Communist spy.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: 6th Supreme Court Justice
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Warpath
Title: Warpath
Character: Sam Quade
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Ed Gorman
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Rawhide
Title: Rawhide
Character: Yancy
Released: March 25, 1951
Type: Movie
At a desolate relay station, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held hostage by a band of escaped criminals.
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Dark City
Title: Dark City
Character: Captain Garvey
Released: October 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: John Straley
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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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Jeff Hassard
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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Twelve O'Clock High
Title: Twelve O'Clock High
Character: Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
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C-Man
Title: C-Man
Character: Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
Released: May 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Ben Willson
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Charles Burnett
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Driftwood
Title: Driftwood
Character: Dr. Steve Webster
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Grant
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Kevin Connors
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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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Sgt. John Patterson
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: John Masters
Released: November 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Paul Baxter
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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The North Star
Title: The North Star
Character: Rodion Pavlov
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
Title: I Escaped from the Gestapo
Character: Torgut Lane
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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The Omaha Trail
Title: The Omaha Trail
Character: 'Pipestone' Ross
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Jim Sawyer
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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The Men in Her Life
Title: The Men in Her Life
Character: David Gibson
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Edward Creighton
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Brigham Young
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Having Wonderful Time
Title: Having Wonderful Time
Character: Charlie (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
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Exiled to Shanghai
Title: Exiled to Shanghai
Character: Charlie Sears
Released: December 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: James 'Capper' Regan
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
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Song of the City
Title: Song of the City
Character: Paul Herrick
Released: April 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family. Drama.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Dillman
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Woman in Distress
Title: Woman in Distress
Character: Fred Stevens
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
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Under Cover of Night
Title: Under Cover of Night
Character: Alan Shaw
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Fritz Lind
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Bob O'Ryan
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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Revolt of the Zombies
Title: Revolt of the Zombies
Character: Armand Louque
Released: June 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending the count's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, one of the members of the expedition has his own agenda.
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13 Hours by Air
Title: 13 Hours by Air
Character: Hap Waller
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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Woman Trap
Title: Woman Trap
Character: 'Honey' Hogan
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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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Arnold
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Adam Larey
Released: September 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
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Men Without Names
Title: Men Without Names
Character: Jones
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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People Will Talk
Title: People Will Talk
Character: Bill Trask
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
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Car 99
Title: Car 99
Character: Trooper Jim Burton
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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Home on the Range
Title: Home on the Range
Character: Thurman
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.
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Wings in the Dark
Title: Wings in the Dark
Character: Top Harmon
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
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Behold My Wife!
Title: Behold My Wife!
Character: Pete
Released: December 6, 1934
Type: Movie
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
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College Rhythm
Title: College Rhythm
Character: Coach Robbins
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
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You Belong to Me
Title: You Belong to Me
Character: Military School Instructor
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hannigan to help her get a job. Bud is reluctant to become her partner, as he has proven to himself to be unreliable in relationships, but he tells her to call him whenever she needs help. While working in a beer garden, Florette meets Hap Stanley, an avaricious performer who marries her to get the rights to perform her show routine. Hap dislikes Jimmy and eventually convinces Florette to send him away to school. Both Jimmy and Florette are broken-up over being apart, but Jimmy pretends it is what he wants so Florette can be happy with Hap.
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Whoopee!
Title: Whoopee!
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
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The Woman from Hell
Title: The Woman from Hell
Character: Jim Coakley
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...