Pierre Watkin

Pierre Watkin

Born: December 27, 1889
Died: February 3, 1960
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Pierre Frank Watkin (December 29, 1889 – February 3, 1960) was an American character actor in many films, serials, and television series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns. He is perhaps best remembered for being the father of Eleanor Twitchell, the lady who captures Lou Gehrig's heart in Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Watkin was born in Sioux City, Iowa. In the 1920s, he had his own theatrical troupe, the Pierre Watkin Players. In 1927, the group moved its headquarters from Sioux Falls to Lincoln, Nebraska.

Watkin portrayed Perry White in both of the Superman serials of the late 1940s, which starred Kirk Alyn as the title character and Noel Neill as Lois Lane.

Watkin played a few different characters in the television series Adventures of Superman, in which John Hamilton played Perry White. He was set to reprise his role as the editor of The Daily Planet in a revival of the series in 1959, as Hamilton had died in the interim since the cancellation of the original series. However, series star George Reeves also died in the summer of 1959, and those plans ended. Watkin himself died six months later.

He also cast in 1955 in the episode "Joey and the Gypsies" of the NBC children's western series Fury. Watkin guest starred in the CBS western series Brave Eagle. He was cast twice each on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Cheyenne (as Harvey Sinclair in "The Law Man") and Annie Oakley (as the Reverend Mills in the 1956 episode "The Reckless Press"). In 1958, Watkin portrayed Dr. Breen of Samaritan Hospital in the episode "San Francisco Story" of Rex Allen's syndicated western series, Frontier Doctor.

During the first season of CBS's Perry Mason from 1957 to 1958, Watkin appeared in three episodes as Judge Keetley. He was also cast during the 1950s on The Range Rider, Tales of the Texas Rangers, in three episodes of the western aviation adventure series Sky King, and five times on The Jack Benny Program.

Watkin played the part of Colonel Duncan in the 1958 episode "Decoy" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Colt .45.

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Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
Title: Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
Character: Doc Hyer
Released: April 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin and his master Rusty as heroes in the old west. Cut from 1950s TV series.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Judge Smith
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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Title: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character: Dr. Bowers
Released: September 6, 1958
Type: TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Title: The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV show.
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Marjorie Morningstar
Title: Marjorie Morningstar
Character: Civil Official (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1958
Type: Movie
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
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Title: The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Character: Mr. Robinson (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: TV
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Judge Keetley
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Spook Chasers
Title: Spook Chasers
Character: Dr. Moss
Released: June 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
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Don't Knock The Rock
Title: Don't Knock The Rock
Character: Mayor George Bagley
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
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Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Title: Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Character: Armtrong
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.
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Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Title: Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Character: Investor
Released: October 2, 1956
Type: Movie
A programmer with a Latin American beat.
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Thunder Over Arizona
Title: Thunder Over Arizona
Character: Dr. Peterson
Released: August 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.
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The Maverick Queen
Title: The Maverick Queen
Character: McMillan
Released: May 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Released: February 20, 1956
Type: TV
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.
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Sudden Danger
Title: Sudden Danger
Character: George Caldwell
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
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Title: Fury
Character: Ellis
Released: October 15, 1955
Type: TV
Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: "FURY!..The story of a horse..and a boy who loves him." Fury is the first American series produced originally by Television Programs of America and later by the British-based company ITC Entertainment.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Porter
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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Title: Jungle Jim
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
Jungle Jim is a 26-episode syndicated adventure television series which aired from 1955 till 1956, starring Johnny Weismuller, as Jim "Jungle Jim" Bradley, a hunter, guide, and explorer in, primarily, Africa. The program should not be confused with Ramar of the Jungle, but is based on the Jungle Jim comic strip created by Alex Raymond and Don Moore. Starring with Weismuller were Martin Huston as Jungle Jim's teenage son, Skipper; Dean Fredericks as Haseem, the Hindu manservant, and Neal, a chimpanzee from the World Jungle Compound, as Tamba. Paul Cavanagh played Commissioner Morrison in nine episodes. Produced by Harold Greene, the series was filmed by Screen Gems, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The program aired in 158 American media markets and in thirty-eight other nations.Earl Bellamy directed the first four episodes of the new series. The series capitalized on the popularity of Weismuller, who had just completed his last film of Tarzan, the jungle character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Jungle Jim was a low-budget offering that relied heavily on stock footage and was not renewed beyond its original episodes.
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Lay That Rifle Down
Title: Lay That Rifle Down
Character: Mr. Coswell
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
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Creature with the Atom Brain
Title: Creature with the Atom Brain
Character: Mayor Bremer
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
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The Big Bluff
Title: The Big Bluff
Character: Mr. Winthrop
Released: June 5, 1955
Type: Movie
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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About Mrs. Leslie
Title: About Mrs. Leslie
Character: Lewis
Released: August 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
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Title: The Whistler
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: TV
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Johnny Dark
Title: Johnny Dark
Character: Ed J. Winston
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A young auto racer competes in a Canada-to-Mexico race in a car he designed himself. Director George Sherman's 1954 film stars Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Sidney Blackmer, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase and Joseph Sawyer.
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The Flaming Urge
Title: The Flaming Urge
Character: Albert Cruickshank
Released: September 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.
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Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Title: The Stranger Wore a Gun
Character: Jason Conroy
Released: July 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Title: Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Character: Commissioner Morrison
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
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The Lost Planet
Title: The Lost Planet
Character: Ned Hilton
Released: June 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of the Earth. Unfortunately for him, reporters oppose his sinister designs.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Allan Pinkerton
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Morgan
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Hopalong Cassidy
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Thundering Caravans
Title: Thundering Caravans
Character: Head Marshal
Released: June 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
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Hold That Line
Title: Hold That Line
Character: Morgan T. Stanhope
Released: March 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
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Title: Dragnet
Released: December 16, 1951
Type: TV
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Mr. Dorrance
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: J. Harrison Hardesty
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Mysterious Island
Title: Mysterious Island
Character: Confederate Officer
Released: September 13, 1951
Type: Movie
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: George B. Hills
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Two Lost Worlds
Title: Two Lost Worlds
Character: Magistrate Jeffries
Released: January 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Shipwreck survivors land on an uncharted island inhabited by prehistoric beasts.
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The Second Face
Title: The Second Face
Character: Mr. Hamilton
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: Mr. Lewis
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Last of the Buccaneers
Title: Last of the Buccaneers
Character: Gov. Claiborne
Released: October 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Hinchecliffe
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Sleamish
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Sunset in the West
Title: Sunset in the West
Character: Gordon MacKnight
Released: September 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.
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Redwood Forest Trail
Title: Redwood Forest Trail
Character: Arthur Cameron
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
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Title: Dick Tracy
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: TV
Dick Tracy is an American TV series based on the detective comic strip Dick Tracy. The show aired on ABC from September 11, 1950 to April 7, 1951.
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Atom Man vs. Superman
Title: Atom Man vs. Superman
Character: Perry White
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Superman battles Lex Luthor, who is using a teleportation device and a new identity as Atom Man in his criminal plans.
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The Big Hangover
Title: The Big Hangover
Character: Samuel C. Long
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Major
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Over the Border
Title: Over the Border
Character: Rand Malloy
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Bringing Bart Calhoun (Marshall Reed) to justice for his complicity in a robbery/murder, Johnny assumes that his job is over. Not by a long shot! Calhoun's arrest leads to the uncovering of a wide-ranging conspiracy to smuggle silver from Mexico to the United States.
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Radar Secret Service
Title: Radar Secret Service
Character: Mr. Hamilton
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
Title: Blue Grass of Kentucky
Character: Head Steward
Released: January 22, 1950
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career.
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The Story of Seabiscuit
Title: The Story of Seabiscuit
Character: Charles S. Howard
Released: November 12, 1949
Type: Movie
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill. Written by Ray Hamel
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Zamba
Title: Zamba
Character: Benton
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Hold That Baby!
Title: Hold That Baby!
Character: John Winston
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Alaska Patrol
Title: Alaska Patrol
Character: Mr. Sigmund
Released: March 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
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Knock on Any Door
Title: Knock on Any Door
Character: Purcell - Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Miss Mink of 1949
Title: Miss Mink of 1949
Character: Cranston
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Publicity Man (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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Siren of Atlantis
Title: Siren of Atlantis
Character: Colonel
Released: January 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis. Bewitched by the sultry, beauty of the Queen of Atlantis (Maria Montez) the two men vie for her affections; little realising that her previous lovers have been embalmed into statues that line the passages of her kingdom.
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Incident
Title: Incident
Character: C. W. Sloan
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
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An Innocent Affair
Title: An Innocent Affair
Character: T.D. Hendricks
Released: October 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
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The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Governor
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Title: The Strange Mrs. Crane
Character: Clinton Crane
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: Colonel
Released: July 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
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Daredevils of the Clouds
Title: Daredevils of the Clouds
Character: Douglas Harrison
Released: July 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Terry O'Rourke, an American operating a small airline in Canada, is having a tough time making a go of it; he has to cope with unfavorable weather conditions, a rocky terrain, and a large Americam company determined to buy him out at their low price. In addition, one of his primary employees is working against him. One of his airplanes is transporting a cargo of gold and the pilot arranges for the gold to be stolen. He planned to parachute to safety, letting the airplane be looted when it crashed, but a co-worker cuts his parachute cord and he is killed. O'Rourke, with the air of one of his best pilots, Kay Cameron, sets out to track down the culprits.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: Perry White
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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Shanghai Chest
Title: Shanghai Chest
Character: Judge Wesley Armstrong
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Carter
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
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The Hunted
Title: The Hunted
Character: Simon Rand, Attorney
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
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Mary Lou
Title: Mary Lou
Character: Airline President
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Airline hostess Ann Parker is fired for being undignified when she sang to calm the passengers during a storm. Mike Connors, publicity man for Frankie Carle's orchestra, invites her to try out as the band's vocalist since the regular singer, Mary Lou, had just quit the band on the eve of an engagement at a swanky New York night club. Encouraged by her boyfriend, Steve Roberts, Ann lands the job and assumes the name of "Mary Lou", a trademark almost for Frankie Carle singers. But the departed Mary Lou shows up and threatens to sue if she is not rehired. Ann returns to her former job. Meanwhile, Steve locates the woman who was the original Mary Lou with the band, and urges Mike to keep the current Mary Lou off the bandstand until he can return with Ann.
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Brick Bradford
Title: Brick Bradford
Character: Professor Salisbury
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Brick Bradford, soldier-of-fortune and time-machine traveler, is hired to protect the Interceptor Ray, an anti-guided missile weapon. His task takes him to the Moon, where he is captured by subjects of Queen Khana, but is spared because Queen Khana kinda likes him. Back on earth, Brick, Sandy and June get into The Time To (Brick's spinning time-machine) and spin back to the 18th Century where they have to fight off pirates and island natives.
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Beyond Our Own
Title: Beyond Our Own
Character: Dr. Blake
Released: November 16, 1947
Type: Movie
This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney. Bob Rogers is a thoughtful, contemplative doctor who decides to forsake his practice to do missionary work in war-torn China. When Peter's young son is tragically killed in an accident, he visits his brother and learns first-hand the importance of compassion and charity. In a world rocked by strife and pain, love can overcome and triumph.
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Her Husband's Affairs
Title: Her Husband's Affairs
Character: Vice President Beitler
Released: November 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. Things get really strange when Bill creates advertising for a wacky inventor's embalming fluid.
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Song of Love
Title: Song of Love
Character: Duke of X (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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The Wild Frontier
Title: The Wild Frontier
Character: Frank Lane
Released: September 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest marshal. That marshal is Frank Lane, who brings his son Rocky with him.
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Monsieur Verdoux
Title: Monsieur Verdoux
Character: Prison Official (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Red Stallion
Title: The Red Stallion
Character: Richard Moresby
Released: August 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
Title: Hard Boiled Mahoney
Character: Dr. Rolfe Carter
Released: May 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment, but finds the office empty. A woman enters the office and mistakes Slip for the detective and convinces him to take on a case to find her sister after offering a $50 retainer.
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Violence
Title: Violence
Character: Ralph Borden
Released: May 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
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Jack Armstrong
Title: Jack Armstrong
Character: Uncle Jim Fairfield
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Harper
Released: December 8, 1946
Type: Movie
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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Sioux City Sue
Title: Sioux City Sue
Character: G.W. Rhodes
Released: November 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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Swamp Fire
Title: Swamp Fire
Character: P.T. Hilton
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident. She owns a large piece of the swamp and has outlawed hunting on her property. His rival Mike (Crabbe) is a trapper who harbors deep resentment for Johnny and his new wealthy friends. When he feels Johnny is responsible for the hunting ban, he resorts to destructive acts of vengeance.
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High School Hero
Title: High School Hero
Character: Governor Huffington
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.
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The Missing Lady
Title: The Missing Lady
Character: Police Commissioner Weston
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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G.I. War Brides
Title: G.I. War Brides
Character: Editor
Released: August 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Police Commissioner Weston
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
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Murder Is My Business
Title: Murder Is My Business
Character: Arnold Ramsey
Released: March 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
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I Ring Doorbells
Title: I Ring Doorbells
Character: G.B. Barton
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
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Claudia and David
Title: Claudia and David
Character: Hartley Naughton
Released: February 25, 1946
Type: Movie
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
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Little Giant
Title: Little Giant
Character: P.S. Van Loon
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
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The Shadow Returns
Title: The Shadow Returns
Character: Police Commissioner J.R. Weston
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
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The Madonna's Secret
Title: The Madonna's Secret
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 16, 1946
Type: Movie
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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Shock
Title: Shock
Character: Blake - Belmont Arms Hotel Manager
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Mr. Buckley
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Wexton Geary
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
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Follow That Woman
Title: Follow That Woman
Character: J.B. Henderson
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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Captain Tugboat Annie
Title: Captain Tugboat Annie
Character: Dr. Turner
Released: November 17, 1945
Type: Movie
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
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Apology for Murder
Title: Apology for Murder
Character: Craig Jordan
Released: September 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
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I Love a Bandleader
Title: I Love a Bandleader
Character: Dr. Gardiner
Released: September 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
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Divorce
Title: Divorce
Character: John Carter
Released: August 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
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Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Title: Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Character: Dr. Harlan Johnson
Released: August 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
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Over 21
Title: Over 21
Character: Joel I. Nixon (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Title: Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Character: Dr. Fletcher
Released: July 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After having been framed by gamblers, Muggs is barred from riding in horse races. Snce he can no longer race, he takes up a collection so Ma Brown, who owns the horses won't have her stable foreclosed on. However, one of the gamblers involved in the frame falls for Ma Brwn's daughter, and decides to come clean and confess to the police about the frame. The other gamblers hear about it and set out to shut him up and discredit Muggs and Ma Brown once and for all.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Dr. Mullins
Released: June 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
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Three's a Crowd
Title: Three's a Crowd
Character: Marcus Pett
Released: May 23, 1945
Type: Movie
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?
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The Phantom Speaks
Title: The Phantom Speaks
Character: Charlie Davis
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Dr. Armitage
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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Keep Your Powder Dry
Title: Keep Your Powder Dry
Character: Mr. Lorrison
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
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Strange Illusion
Title: Strange Illusion
Character: District Attorney Wallace Armstrong
Released: March 31, 1945
Type: Movie
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
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Docks of New York
Title: Docks of New York
Character: Captain Jacobs
Released: February 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.
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Here Come the Co-eds
Title: Here Come the Co-eds
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
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The Great Mike
Title: The Great Mike
Character: Colonel Whitley
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
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Dead Man's Eyes
Title: Dead Man's Eyes
Character: Hayden's Lawyer
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
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End of the Road
Title: End of the Road
Character: District Attorney
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
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Shadow of Suspicion
Title: Shadow of Suspicion
Character: Frank Randall
Released: September 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery.
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Sen. Hodges
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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Oh, What a Night!
Title: Oh, What a Night!
Character: Tom Gordon
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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South of Dixie
Title: South of Dixie
Character: Dean Williamson
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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Jungle Woman
Title: Jungle Woman
Character: Dr. Meredith
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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Ladies of Washington
Title: Ladies of Washington
Character: Dr. John Crane (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The new boarder at a Washington, D.C. rooming house for women likes the fast life, but her recreational activities lead to her involvement in murder.
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Bermuda Mystery
Title: Bermuda Mystery
Character: Herbert Bond
Released: May 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Title: The Chance of a Lifetime
Character: State Governor Rutledge (Uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Prosecutor
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Judge
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Doctor
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Admiral
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Ambrose
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Naval Attache (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Maj. Harper (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Cinderella Swings It
Title: Cinderella Swings It
Character: Brock Harris
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
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Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Title: Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Character: British Agent Z
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.
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Whistling in Dixie
Title: Whistling in Dixie
Character: Doctor
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
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Ice Capades Revue
Title: Ice Capades Revue
Character: Wiley Stone
Released: December 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
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Stand By All Networks
Title: Stand By All Networks
Character: Grant Neeley
Released: October 29, 1942
Type: Movie
An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Mr. Twitchell
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Magnificent Dope
Title: The Magnificent Dope
Character: Carson
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Club Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: John Markham
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Heart of the Rio Grande
Title: Heart of the Rio Grande
Character: Randolph Lane
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Grover Blaine McHenry
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
Title: The Adventures of Martin Eden
Character: Amos Morley
Released: February 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Title: Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
Character: Crothers
Released: November 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Phineas Krager - Land Dealer
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Col. Wayburn
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Buy Me That Town
Title: Buy Me That Town
Character: Carlton Williams
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
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Lydia
Title: Lydia
Character: Speaker
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Mr. Benson
Released: July 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
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Nevada City
Title: Nevada City
Character: Amos Norton
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Middlesex
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Naval Academy
Title: Naval Academy
Character: Capt. Davis
Released: June 5, 1941
Type: Movie
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Adventure in Washington
Title: Adventure in Washington
Character: Frank Conroy
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: George Wharton
Released: May 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Hammett
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Governor
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Petticoat Politics
Title: Petticoat Politics
Character: Alfred Wilcox
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
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Life with Henry
Title: Life with Henry
Character: Mr. Joseph Anderson
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Boss Crogan
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Title: Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Character: Mr. Robert Chandler
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Mr. Skinner
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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Father Is A Prince
Title: Father Is A Prince
Character: Mr. Lee
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Straker
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Commissioner at Hearing (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: First-Nighter (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Charlie - Phyllis's Escort
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: J.H. King
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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Rhythm on the River
Title: Rhythm on the River
Character: Uncle John
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: American Consul
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Mr. W.H. Sims
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Golden Gloves
Title: Golden Gloves
Character: A.P. Barton - Editor (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Captain
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Out West with the Peppers
Title: Out West with the Peppers
Character: J.H. King
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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The Saint Takes Over
Title: The Saint Takes Over
Character: Ben Egan
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: President of the Court
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: Morgan Wycott (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Teddy the Rough Rider
Title: Teddy the Rough Rider
Character: Sen. Platt
Released: February 21, 1940
Type: Movie
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
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The Great Victor Herbert
Title: The Great Victor Herbert
Character: Albert Martin
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Col. White
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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The Covered Trailer
Title: The Covered Trailer
Character: Horace Cartwright
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Mr. Caldwell (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Senator Barnes
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Everything's on Ice
Title: Everything's on Ice
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money.
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Wall Street Cowboy
Title: Wall Street Cowboy
Character: Roger Hammond
Released: August 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Movie Studio Producer (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Hewitt Bronson
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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They Made Her a Spy
Title: They Made Her a Spy
Character: Colonel Wilson
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
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Society Lawyer
Title: Society Lawyer
Character: Henry V. Adams
Released: March 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Title: The Adventures of Jane Arden
Character: Albert Thayer
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
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The Spirit of Culver
Title: The Spirit of Culver
Character: Capt. Wharton
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Military Academy. Talked into attending so that he can have free room and board, Allen initially resists the rigid discipline but later softens as he makes friends and sees the value to the hard work and discipline.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Chief of the Secret Service
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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Risky Business
Title: Risky Business
Character: Abernathy
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Victor Stockton
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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Wings of the Navy
Title: Wings of the Navy
Character: Capt. March
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Barton
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: District Attorney
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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The Mysterious Miss X
Title: The Mysterious Miss X
Character: Winslow
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
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There's That Woman Again
Title: There's That Woman Again
Character: Mr. Nacelle
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Character: Jigger
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Mr. Storm
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Mr. Fenton (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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Young Dr. Kildare
Title: Young Dr. Kildare
Character: Mr. Robert Chanler
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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The Lady Objects
Title: The Lady Objects
Character: Mr. Harper
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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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Title: Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Character: Mr. Wondel
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Mr. Alfred Simpson
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Attorney to Kirby (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Boy Meets Girl
Title: Boy Meets Girl
Character: B.K. Whitacre
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: John Nelson Davis
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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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Mr. Beaumont
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Mr. Ketterling
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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Tip-Off Girls
Title: Tip-Off Girls
Character: George Murkil
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Col. C.B. Clarke
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Dangerous to Know
Title: Dangerous to Know
Character: Senator Carson
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Mr. Carter (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Attorney Peter Winslow
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Gordon Faraday
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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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Carmichael
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Governor
Released: August 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
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Confession
Title: Confession
Character: Lawyer Stagoff (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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Paradise Isle
Title: Paradise Isle
Character: Dr. Steinmeyer
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
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The Californian
Title: The Californian
Character: Miller
Released: July 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Barton
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: General
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Browne
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Mark Grave
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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The Hit Parade
Title: The Hit Parade
Character: J. B. Hawley
Released: April 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Governor
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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Internes Can't Take Money
Title: Internes Can't Take Money
Character: Dr. Fearson
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Judge #2 (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Bill Cracks Down
Title: Bill Cracks Down
Character: William 'Bill' Reardon Sr.
Released: March 22, 1937
Type: Movie
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request. He also finds that his father's will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker's job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Under Southern Stars
Title: Under Southern Stars
Character: Robert E. Lee
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
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Green Light
Title: Green Light
Character: Dr. Booth
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: USS Taroe Commander
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Submarine Commander
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: H.J. Conrad
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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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Mr. Stark - the Bridegroom
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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Larceny on the Air
Title: Larceny on the Air
Character: Kennedy
Released: January 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Thomas A. White
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
Title: Wanted: Jane Turner
Character: Andrew Norris (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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Country Gentlemen
Title: Country Gentlemen
Character: Mr. Grayson
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Hobbs
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Allen's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: The College Chancellor
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Character: Roger Leland
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Secretary of State (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: Mr. Barnes (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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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Character: Matt McDonald
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Arthur Cedar (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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It Had to Happen
Title: It Had to Happen
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
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You May Be Next!
Title: You May Be Next!
Character: Bernard Pine (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: City Editor
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Mr. Balderson (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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Dangerous
Title: Dangerous
Character: George Sheffield
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
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He Who Gets Slapped
Title: He Who Gets Slapped
Character: Spectator in Audience at HE's Final Performance
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming scientist Paul Benedict is betrayed by his mentor, the Baron Regnard, who not only steals discoveries but also his wife Marie. Benedict, reeling from his pain, joins a circus sideshow in order to become the most famous clown in France. He becomes infatuated with Consuelo, a showgirl, who has become the recipient of affections by the Baron.