Edward LeSaint

Edward LeSaint

Born: December 13, 1870
Died: September 10, 1940
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Movies for Edward LeSaint...

Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Minister
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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The Return of Wild Bill
Title: The Return of Wild Bill
Character: Lige Saunders
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Jim Kinkaid
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Doctor
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Jeff Cameron
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Priest
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Bullets for Rustlers
Title: Bullets for Rustlers
Character: Judge Baxter
Released: March 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Dr. Emery
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Police Capt. Ridge (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Dr. Grant
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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The Stranger from Texas
Title: The Stranger from Texas
Character: Dan Murdock
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Bishop
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Dr. Emery
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Leader of Protesting Settlers
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: John Mason
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Fr. Ryan (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Banker at Demonstration
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Judge
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Lincoln in the White House
Title: Lincoln in the White House
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
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Honolulu
Title: Honolulu
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: The Honorable Thomas McCreevy
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Arizona Legion
Title: Arizona Legion
Character: Judge Clayton L. Meade
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Judge Rankin
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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The Duke of West Point
Title: The Duke of West Point
Character: Oath Giver
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
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Once Over Lightly
Title: Once Over Lightly
Character: Dean
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Dist. Atty. Charles J. Wilson
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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The Lady Objects
Title: The Lady Objects
Character: Judge in Howell Case
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Colorado Trail
Title: Colorado Trail
Character: Jeff Randall
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Judge #2
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Attorney Arthur Cochran
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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The Main Event
Title: The Main Event
Character: Watchman
Released: June 22, 1938
Type: Movie
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
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Tell Your Children
Title: Tell Your Children
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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The Saint in New York
Title: The Saint in New York
Character: Citizens Committee Member (Uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: First Overseer
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Captain Kidd's Treasure
Title: Captain Kidd's Treasure
Character: Member of Modern-day Expedition (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1938
Type: Movie
In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Doctor
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Outlaws of the Prairie
Title: Outlaws of the Prairie
Character: Lafe Garfield
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of gold-shipment robberies. So does heroine Judy Garfield (Iris Meredith), whose stage transport business faces foreclosure if the holdups continue. It comes as no surprise that the crimes are being orchestrated by the very people who want to force Judy out of business.
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The Old Wyoming Trail
Title: The Old Wyoming Trail
Character: Jeff Halliday
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Stockholder - Receivership Hearing Member
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Detective
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Forty Naughty Girls
Title: Forty Naughty Girls
Character: Coroner
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Doctor
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Wild West Days
Title: Wild West Days
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Seaman at Auction
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Let Them Live
Title: Let Them Live
Character: Doctor
Released: April 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: FBI Agent Dixon
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Two Gun Law
Title: Two Gun Law
Character: Colonel Ben Hammond
Released: April 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Hearing Judge
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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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Counterfeit Lady
Title: Counterfeit Lady
Character: Girard
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Dr. Channing (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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Killer at Large
Title: Killer at Large
Character: Landlord (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
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End of the Trail
Title: End of the Trail
Character: Jim Watrous
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Stuart's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
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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Disorder in the Court
Title: Disorder in the Court
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
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The Witness Chair
Title: The Witness Chair
Character: Judge McKenzie
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks). The next morning, the cleaning lady finds Whittaker's dead body, an apparent suicide. Police Lieutenant Poole (Moroni Olsen) finds a letter signed by Whittaker in which the deceased states he embezzled $75,000. Soon, however, he suspects otherwise and, after investigating, arrests widower James "Jim" Trent (Walter Abel), the vice president of Whittaker.
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The Drag-Net
Title: The Drag-Net
Character: Lawrence Thomas Sr.
Released: April 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Dr. Fosdick (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Sheriff Couler
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: General Ferguson
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
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The Mysterious Avenger
Title: The Mysterious Avenger
Character: Lockhart
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Ranny Maitland's father is feuding with his neighbor Lockhart. Pretending to be on Lockhart's side in the feud, Ranny goes to investigate. Meanwhile is father is murdered and Lockhart arrested.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Gas Station Owner (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Contractor (uncredited)
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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Gallant Defender
Title: Gallant Defender
Character: Harvey Campbell
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Munro and his gang control the valley and are driving away all nesters. Johnny arrives, and taking an interest in Barbara McGrail, decides to help the nesters. He receives unexpected help from Barbara's uncle who is posing as Salty Smith, one of Munro's hired guns. Salty thinks Munro killed his brother and is out to get proof.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Engineer
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Doctor
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Samuel Blair
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Stockbroker
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Fire Chief
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Cheers of the Crowd
Title: Cheers of the Crowd
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.
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Riding Wild
Title: Riding Wild
Character: Rancher Matt McCabe (as Edward J. LeSaint)
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Medical Examiner
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Justice of the Range
Title: Justice of the Range
Character: John McLean
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cattle buyer Graves is the real culprit. To throw suspicion off himself Graves hires Tim to investigate, not knowing that this will be his downfall.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Duncan (as Edward Le Saint)
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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On Probation
Title: On Probation
Character: Judge
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Well-Wisher Townsman
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Judge
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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In Spite of Danger
Title: In Spite of Danger
Character: Dr. Daley
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Hospital Superintendent
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
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A Notorious Gentleman
Title: A Notorious Gentleman
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
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The Bands Plays On
Title: The Bands Plays On
Character: Doctor
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Judge
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Old Graduate
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Minor Role
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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A Lost Lady
Title: A Lost Lady
Character: Mr. Cannon (uncredited)
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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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Chief of Police O'Brien (as Ed Le Saint)
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: S.S. Official (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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Take the Stand
Title: Take the Stand
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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She Learned About Sailors
Title: She Learned About Sailors
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: June 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Judge
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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The Lost Jungle
Title: The Lost Jungle
Character: Captain Robinson
Released: June 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
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Half-Baked Relations
Title: Half-Baked Relations
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A courtroom comedy! In this short we follow suspect Mr. Wilson (Clyde) as he explains the events leading to him hitting brother-in-law Homer Healy (Jack Shutta) with a monkey wrench. This was Andy Clyde's last short film for Educational Pictures.
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Hell Bent for Love
Title: Hell Bent for Love
Character: Judge (as Ed LeSaint)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Judge
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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The Lost Jungle
Title: The Lost Jungle
Character: Mr. Robinson
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
12 part movie serial where Clyde Beatty encounters obstacles and adventure on his way to rescue his damsel in distress.
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George White's Scandals
Title: George White's Scandals
Character: Judge O'Neill
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: Sheila's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Travers
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Character: Rev. J.A. Hayes (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Judge Walters
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Harry Graham
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Secretary of Labor (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Broken Dreams
Title: Broken Dreams
Character: Judge Harvey E. Blake
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
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Brief Moment
Title: Brief Moment
Character: Higgins the Office Manager
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
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Lady for a Day
Title: Lady for a Day
Character: Police Capt. Moore (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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Torch Singer
Title: Torch Singer
Character: Doctor
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.
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The Last Trail
Title: The Last Trail
Character: Judge Wilson
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad man" (O'Brien) boards an Eastbound train, where he strikes up a friendship with a genial gangster (J. Carroll Naish). Later on, the cowboy returns to the West as a member of the gangster's gang. He poses as the heir to a vast cattle ranch, never dreaming that he really is the heir. When the truth is revealed, the wayward cowboy switches to the side of the Law, while another of the gangster's flunkeys (Claire Trevor) reveals herself to be an honest newspaperwoman -- and thus a suitable candidate for romance.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Bank Director (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Doctor
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
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Jennie Gerhardt
Title: Jennie Gerhardt
Character: Lester's Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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Tomorrow at Seven
Title: Tomorrow at Seven
Character: Coroner
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Henry Woodward aka Barrows
Released: May 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Jim Bridger
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Director Ed Jackson (as Edward Le Saint)
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Reeves Company Board Member (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Child of Manhattan
Title: Child of Manhattan
Character: Dr. Schultz
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Judge Randall (as Ed Le Saint)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he does she is found guilt and sentenced to hang. Earlier Jeff learned that her assistant Colonel Jedcott is the real culprit and rides to the Governor for a pardon only to be waylaid by Jedcott on the return trip.
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Central Park
Title: Central Park
Character: Police Commissioner (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Mr. Brown
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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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Chamber of Commerce Chairman (uncredited)
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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Breach of Promise
Title: Breach of Promise
Character: Judge
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A pre-Code drama.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Mr. Henry Morrow (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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Thirteen Women
Title: Thirteen Women
Character: Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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Horse Feathers
Title: Horse Feathers
Character: Professor in Wagstaff's Study (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
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Drifting Souls
Title: Drifting Souls
Character: Doctor
Released: August 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
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Daring Danger
Title: Daring Danger
Character: First Ranch Owner (as Ed LeSaint)
Released: June 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Police Academy Commander (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Letty Lynton
Title: Letty Lynton
Character: Dr. Sanders (Uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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High Speed
Title: High Speed
Character: Police Captain Blaine
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Southerner (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Character: Professor Flynn (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Minister at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Druggist at Trial (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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The Deadline
Title: The Deadline
Character: Henry Evans (as Edward J. LeSaint)
Released: December 3, 1931
Type: Movie
On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn off a wanted poster with some handwriting on it.
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The Fighting Marshal
Title: The Fighting Marshal
Character: Warden Decker
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered.
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Girls About Town
Title: Girls About Town
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
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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The Range Feud
Title: The Range Feud
Character: John Walton
Released: October 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
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Graft
Title: Graft
Character: Newspaper Printer
Released: September 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
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Caught
Title: Caught
Character: Haverstraw (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Doc Robinson (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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The Miracle Woman
Title: The Miracle Woman
Character: Parishioner (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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A Free Soul
Title: A Free Soul
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1931
Type: Movie
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Detective Meyers
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Mothers Cry
Title: Mothers Cry
Character: Warden
Released: December 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
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The Dawn Trail
Title: The Dawn Trail
Character: Amos
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there and use the same watering stream. Mart Dalton, son of a wealthy cattleman, quarrels with and kills one of the settlers, thus placing sheriff Larry Williams in a delicate position; for he is Mart's best friend and is engaged to Mart's sister June. However, sworn to do his duty, he arrests Mart, incensing the cattlemen, who help Mart escape, leaving Larry wounded.
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The Costello Case
Title: The Costello Case
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Judge at first trial
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Judge
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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The Talk of Hollywood
Title: The Talk of Hollywood
Character: Edward Hamilton
Released: December 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a bad French accent), Adore Renee, and a swishy leading man, Reginald Whitlock. Meanwhile, his daughter, Judy Ginsburg, gets involved in a romance with Ginsburg's Gentile lawyer, John Applegate. His efforts aren't helped any by the projectionist who mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue and sound effects, during a showing for prospective film buyers and exhibitors.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Edward LeSaint (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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A Timely Repentance
Title: A Timely Repentance
Character: John Crawford - the Poor Husband
Released: March 11, 1912
Type: Movie
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.