Robert McWade

Robert McWade

Born: January 23, 1872
Died: January 19, 1938
in Buffalo, New York, USA

Movies for Robert McWade...

Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Mr. Crouch
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Of Human Hearts
Title: Of Human Hearts
Character: Dr. Lupus Crumm
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Col. Fentridge
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Admiral Dewey
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Horace Bamber
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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The Good Old Soak
Title: The Good Old Soak
Character: Webster Parsons
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Corrigan
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.
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We're on the Jury
Title: We're on the Jury
Character: Henry Prime
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
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Mister Cinderella
Title: Mister Cinderella
Character: Mr. J.J. Gates
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.
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15 Maiden Lane
Title: 15 Maiden Lane
Character: John Graves
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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Old Hutch
Title: Old Hutch
Character: Mr. Jolly
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Willard Stone
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: J.C. Kent
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Burgess Frisbie
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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Moonlight Murder
Title: Moonlight Murder
Character: Quinlan
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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Next Time We Love
Title: Next Time We Love
Character: Frank Carteret
Released: January 30, 1936
Type: Movie
A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
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Anything Goes
Title: Anything Goes
Character: Elisha J. Whitney
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Judge Stephen Crawford
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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His Night Out
Title: His Night Out
Character: Davis
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Cappy Ricks Returns
Title: Cappy Ricks Returns
Character: Alden 'Cappy' Ricks
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: A.E. Moore
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Judge
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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The Healer
Title: The Healer
Character: Mr. Bradshaw
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: John Wagner
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: Boss Tim Reglan
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Society Doctor
Title: Society Doctor
Character: Harris Snowden
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
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College Rhythm
Title: College Rhythm
Character: Herman Whimple
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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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Vice Presient Molleson
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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No Ransom
Title: No Ransom
Character: John Winfield
Released: October 7, 1934
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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The Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: District Attorney Markham
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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Midnight Alibi
Title: Midnight Alibi
Character: Senator
Released: July 12, 1934
Type: Movie
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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Operator 13
Title: Operator 13
Character: Colonel Sharpe
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
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Thirty Day Princess
Title: Thirty Day Princess
Character: Managing Editor
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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Hold That Girl
Title: Hold That Girl
Character: McCloy
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Title: The Countess of Monte Cristo
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: March 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: The Grouch
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Alonzo Holt
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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The Prizefighter and the Lady
Title: The Prizefighter and the Lady
Character: Adopted Son
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Harvey Miles
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: District Attorney Markham
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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I Loved a Woman
Title: I Loved a Woman
Character: Larkin
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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The Solitaire Man
Title: The Solitaire Man
Character: Mr. Peabody
Released: September 22, 1933
Type: Movie
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
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Heroes for Sale
Title: Heroes for Sale
Character: Dr. Briggs
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Henry Cameron
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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Pick-up
Title: Pick-up
Character: Jerome Turner
Released: March 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
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42nd Street
Title: 42nd Street
Character: Jones
Released: March 11, 1933
Type: Movie
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Ladies They Talk About
Title: Ladies They Talk About
Character: District Attorney Walter Simpson
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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Hard to Handle
Title: Hard to Handle
Character: Charles Reeves
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Mr. Larsen
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: F.E. Ramsey
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Herbert Walcott
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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Flaming Gold
Title: Flaming Gold
Character: Bill Conway
Released: September 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Wesley Kitterman
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Uncle Felix
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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The First Year
Title: The First Year
Character: Fred Livingston
Released: July 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: James Butterworth
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Grand Hotel
Title: Grand Hotel
Character: Meierheim
Released: May 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Ladies of the Jury
Title: Ladies of the Jury
Character: Judge Henry Fish
Released: February 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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Girls About Town
Title: Girls About Town
Character: Simms
Released: November 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
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Skyline
Title: Skyline
Character: Judge West
Released: October 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Title: New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Character: Mr. Tuttle
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Uncle George
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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It's a Wise Child
Title: It's a Wise Child
Character: G. A. Appleby
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
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Kept Husbands
Title: Kept Husbands
Character: Arthur Parker
Released: February 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Louis Hefner
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Feet First
Title: Feet First
Character: John Quincy Tanner
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: Frank
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: Phil Reisman
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
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Good Intentions
Title: Good Intentions
Character: Cyrus Holt
Released: June 29, 1930
Type: Movie
When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
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The Sins of the Children
Title: The Sins of the Children
Character: Joe Higginson
Released: June 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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The Home Towners
Title: The Home Towners
Character: P. H. Bancroft
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
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New Brooms
Title: New Brooms
Released: October 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch. As a result, Bates decides to teach his son a lesson by putting him in charge of the business for a year.