Grant Withers

Grant Withers

Born: January 17, 1905
Died: March 27, 1959
in Pueblo, Colorado, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Grant Withers (January 17, 1905, Pueblo, Colorado – March 27, 1959, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California), born Granville G. Withers, was a prolific American film actor with a sizeable body of work.

With early beginnings in the silent era, Withers moved into talkies establishing himself with an impressive list of headlined features as a young and handsome male lead.

As his career progressed, his importance diminished, but he did manage a 10-year contract at Republic Pictures. His friendships with both John Ford and John Wayne secured him a spot in nine of Wayne's films, but later roles dwindled to supporting parts, mainly as villains in B-movies, serials, and finally television. He appeared in the late 1950s in two episodes of the syndicated western series 26 Men, set in Arizona, where he had earlier eloped with Loretta Young.

His life in film, five unsuccessful marriages, and a tragic end had all the makings of its own Hollywood drama.

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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Title: Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 9, 1994
Type: Movie
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
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I, Mobster
Title: I, Mobster
Character: Paul Moran
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Ed Martin
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
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Title: The Restless Gun
Character: Dutcher
Released: September 23, 1957
Type: TV
The Restless Gun is an American western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict wherever possible. He is gregarious, intelligent, and public-spirited. The half-hour black-and-white program aired seventy-eight episodes. Jeanne Bates appeared in varying roles with Payne in five episodes of The Restless Gun. The Restless Gun theme song begins: "I ride with the wind, my eyes on the sun, and my hand on my restless gun..." The song composer is probably Paul Dunlap, credited as the primary series composer, but could have been contributed to by either of the two other series composers, Dave Kahn and Stanley Wilson, also. Two versions are currently posted on YouTube, but neither posting lists any composer or performance credits.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Stewart Brent
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: Wagon Train
Character: Mark Hammond
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Sheriff Ludlow
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Jeremiah Mulrooney
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Sam Barton
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Last Stagecoach West
Title: Last Stagecoach West
Character: Jack Fergus
Released: July 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
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Hell's Crossroads
Title: Hell's Crossroads
Character: Sheriff Oliver
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
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The White Squaw
Title: The White Squaw
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Swedish settler (David Brian) starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Carl Metz
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sheriff Roy Lamont
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Title: The Gale Storm Show
Character: Oliver
Released: September 29, 1956
Type: TV
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
Title: Lady Godiva of Coventry
Character: Pendar
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: William Brackett Sr.
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: Cheyenne
Character: Matt Ellis
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Jed Larner
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Gus Andrews
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Miles Breck
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Run for Cover
Title: Run for Cover
Character: Gentry
Released: April 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
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Title: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Character: Sheriff Wharton
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: TV
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Title: Lassie
Character: George Forsythe (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: TV
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
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Champ for a Day
Title: Champ for a Day
Character: Scott Cameron
Released: August 15, 1953
Type: Movie
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
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Iron Mountain Trail
Title: Iron Mountain Trail
Character: Roger McCall
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveries of mail to the goldfields, and find a destructive feud raging between two stage-line owners, Sam Sawyer and John Brockway. In their attempts to have their stages and drivers first on the dock to get the mail brought East by ship, the two have damaged each other's equipment and schedules to the point that no consignment of mail reaches the goldfields intact or on time.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Buck Ramsey
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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Fair Wind to Java
Title: Fair Wind to Java
Character: Jason Blue
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Tropic Zone
Title: Tropic Zone
Character: Bert Nelson
Released: January 14, 1953
Type: Movie
A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.
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Tropical Heat Wave
Title: Tropical Heat Wave
Character: Norman James
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the object of a night-club singers affections.
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Woman of the North Country
Title: Woman of the North Country
Character: Henry S. Chapman
Released: July 23, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Rev. Simon Andrews
Released: April 15, 1952
Type: Movie
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
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Oklahoma Annie
Title: Oklahoma Annie
Character: Bull McCready
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Leadville Gunslinger
Title: Leadville Gunslinger
Character: Jonathan Graves
Released: March 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Arriving in Leadville, Marshal Rocky Lane finds that his friend Nugget is in financial trouble. Nugget thinks there is oil on his land but the geologist says no. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rocky poses as a crook himself to infiltrate the gang, nab the ringleader and make sure justice takes the day. Harry Keller directs this B Western.
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Captive of Billy the Kid
Title: Captive of Billy the Kid
Character: Van Stanley
Released: January 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Five people have a part of a map leading to Billy the Kid's treasure. When one of them is killed, Rocky Lane has a plan to find the killer.
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The Sea Hornet
Title: The Sea Hornet
Character: Rocky Lowe
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
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Utah Wagon Train
Title: Utah Wagon Train
Character: Red Bancroft
Released: October 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
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Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Carlo Petrov
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
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Spoilers of the Plains
Title: Spoilers of the Plains
Character: Gregory Camwell
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
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Belle Le Grand
Title: Belle Le Grand
Character: Shannon
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do whatever it takes to get her out, she eventually becomes the proprietor of a notorious gambling establishment.
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Rio Grande
Title: Rio Grande
Character: U.S. Deputy Marshal
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.
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Tripoli
Title: Tripoli
Character: Sgt. Derek
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
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Hit Parade of 1951
Title: Hit Parade of 1951
Character: Smokey
Released: October 15, 1950
Type: Movie
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.
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Trigger, Jr.
Title: Trigger, Jr.
Character: Manson
Released: June 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.
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The Savage Horde
Title: The Savage Horde
Character: Wade Proctor
Released: May 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: David Strong
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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Bells of Coronado
Title: Bells of Coronado
Character: Craig Bennett
Released: January 8, 1950
Type: Movie
An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Title: The Fighting Kentuckian
Character: George Hayden
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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Hellfire
Title: Hellfire
Character: Sheriff Martin
Released: May 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
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Duke of Chicago
Title: Duke of Chicago
Character: Tony Russo
Released: March 15, 1949
Type: Movie
To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.
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Wake of the Red Witch
Title: Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Capt. Wilde Youngeur
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
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Homicide for Three
Title: Homicide for Three
Character: Joe Hatch aka Bruno Rose
Released: December 8, 1948
Type: Movie
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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The Plunderers
Title: The Plunderers
Character: Deputy Tap Lawrence
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
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Angel in Exile
Title: Angel in Exile
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 20, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
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Night Time in Nevada
Title: Night Time in Nevada
Character: Ran Farrell
Released: September 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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Sons of Adventure
Title: Sons of Adventure
Character: J.L. Sterling
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
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Daredevils of the Clouds
Title: Daredevils of the Clouds
Character: Matt Conroy
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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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Silas Meacham
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Wesley Hardin
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Old Los Angeles
Title: Old Los Angeles
Character: Marshal Ed Luckner
Released: April 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the early statehood days of California, with Elliot keeping the peace and warding off plunderers and marauders. As always, Elliot is a "peaceable man"--until he beats the tar out of those who rile him. The problem with Elliot's more expensive Republic vehicles is that action invariably took a back seat to plot, romance, costumes and decor. Within a year of Old Los Angeles, Elliot started a more austere, less prettified and far superior western series.
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Tycoon
Title: Tycoon
Character: Fog
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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The Ghost Goes Wild
Title: The Ghost Goes Wild
Character: Bill Winters
Released: August 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
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Wyoming
Title: Wyoming
Character: Joe Sublette
Released: July 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Inspector Donaldson
Released: July 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.
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Gunfighters
Title: Gunfighters
Character: Deputy Bill Yount
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as a cowhand on the Inskip ranch. Upon arriving there he finds the bullet-riddled body of his friend. He carries the body to the Banner ranch, the largest in the territory, and is accused by Banner of murdering Tyrell; Banner orders Deputy Sheriff Bill Yount, who is in Banner's pay, to arrest Kane. But Kane has the sympathy of Banner's daughter, Jane, who notifies Inskip of Kane's plight, and Inskip arrives in time to prevent a lynching. Sheriff Kiscade dismisses the murder charge for lack of evidence. Brazos then sets out to find the killer of his friend. Bess Bannister, Jane's sister, is in love with the Banner ranch foreman, Bard Macky, and knowing that Bard killed Tyrell and that Kane will track him down, then hampers Kane's mission somewhat by pretending to be in love with him.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Detective Lt. Kirk
Released: July 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
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Affairs of Geraldine
Title: Affairs of Geraldine
Character: Henry Cooper
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: Ike Clanton
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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In Old Sacramento
Title: In Old Sacramento
Character: Captain Mark Slayter
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing by day and always with a smile. But when the woman he loves begins to suspect him and the young man he befriends is arrested for being him, it's time for Johnny to rethink his priorities.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Slagin
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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Road to Alcatraz
Title: Road to Alcatraz
Character: Inspector Craven
Released: July 10, 1945
Type: Movie
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.
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Bells of Rosarita
Title: Bells of Rosarita
Character: William Ripley
Released: June 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
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Dangerous Partners
Title: Dangerous Partners
Character: Jonathan
Released: June 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
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The Vampire's Ghost
Title: The Vampire's Ghost
Character: Father Gilchrist
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
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Utah
Title: Utah
Character: Ben Bowman
Released: March 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heiress (Dale Evans) not to sell the property.
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The Girl Who Dared
Title: The Girl Who Dared
Character: Homer Norton
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
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The Yellow Rose of Texas
Title: The Yellow Rose of Texas
Character: Express Agent Lucas
Released: June 24, 1944
Type: Movie
Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.
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Goodnight, Sweetheart
Title: Goodnight, Sweetheart
Character: Matt Colby
Released: June 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival newspaper.
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Silent Partner
Title: Silent Partner
Character: Bob Ross
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Title: Roger Touhy, Gangster
Character: FBI Man Detaining 'Ice Box' (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Whanger Spreckles
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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In Old Oklahoma
Title: In Old Oklahoma
Character: "Rich"Richardson
Released: December 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Title: Whistling in Brooklyn
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Bob Hastings
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Captive Wild Woman
Title: Captive Wild Woman
Character: Veterinarian (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Title: Gildersleeve's Bad Day
Character: Henry Potter
Released: May 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Title: Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character: Waddy (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Tennessee Johnson
Title: Tennessee Johnson
Character: Mordecai Milligan
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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Northwest Rangers
Title: Northwest Rangers
Character: Fowler
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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Panama Hattie
Title: Panama Hattie
Character: Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: 'Les' Lestrade
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Cactus Pete
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Title: H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Character: Sammy Lee, Harvard Football Coach (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A man who lived his life as he was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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No Hands on the Clock
Title: No Hands on the Clock
Character: Harry Belding
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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The Masked Rider
Title: The Masked Rider
Character: Douglas
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
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Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Captain
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
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The Get-Away
Title: The Get-Away
Character: Rufe Parker, a Gangster
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Ed Shanahan
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Let's Make Music
Title: Let's Make Music
Character: Headwaiter
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Police Captain Street
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Title: Mexican Spitfire Out West
Character: Withers
Released: October 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Mr. Grant
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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Doomed to Die
Title: Doomed to Die
Character: Capt. William Street
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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Tomboy
Title: Tomboy
Character: Mr. Kelly
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Character: Capt. Bill Street
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both his success and dishonesty. Mr. Wong faces increasing danger and is nearly executed himself as the investigation develops in treachery and complexity. As Mr. Wong follows the trail of dead bodies, he uncovers a jewel smuggling ring on the San Francisco waterfront and a case much larger than the death of a police officer.
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Daughter of the Tong
Title: Daughter of the Tong
Character: Ralph Dickson
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Police Capt. Bill Street
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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Boys' Reformatory
Title: Boys' Reformatory
Character: Dr. Owens
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
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Lure of the Wasteland
Title: Lure of the Wasteland
Character: Smitty
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A "special" by Monogram standards, Lure of the Wasteland was lensed in a not inexpensive process called Telco-color. Grant Withers takes a break from his duties in the "Mister Wong" series to play Smitty, a US marshal assigned to track down $250,000 in stolen bonds.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Police Capt. Sam Street
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Steve Fletcher, alias CPO Steve Roberts
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Title: Mr. Wong, Detective
Character: Police Capt. Sam Street
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Jack
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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The Marines Come Thru
Title: The Marines Come Thru
Character: Pvt. Jack 'Junior' Murray
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Marine Lieutenant Steve Landers has perfected a new bomb-release for airplanes which he is testing with the aid of his mechanics,'Singapore' Stebbins and Jack Murray. Dick Weber, one of a group of enemy agents attempting to steal the plans, is a friend of Colonel Dale, whose daughter, Linda, is engaged to Landers. Weber learns that "Singapore" and Jack are to deliver the final blueprints to the Colonel's home. Beckstrom , head of the spy ring, has some of his agents dress as Marines and obtain entry the the hangar. They get the plans but "Singapore" and Jack have overheard a conversation that indicates the spies are heading for a nearby island which is the headquarters of the espionage group.
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Held For Ransom
Title: Held For Ransom
Character: Larry Scott
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
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The Secret of Treasure Island
Title: The Secret of Treasure Island
Character: Roderick Gridley
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. The Isle of Fear, 2. The Ghost Talks, 3. The Phantom Duel, 4. Buried Alive, 5. The Girl Who Vanished, 6. Trapped by the Flood, 7. The Cannon Roars, 8. The Circle of Death, 9. The Pirate's Revenge, 10. The Crash, 11. Dynamite, 12. The Bridge of Doom, 13. The Mad Flight, 14. The Jaws of Destruction, 15. Justice
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Telephone Operator
Title: Telephone Operator
Character: Red
Released: December 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
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Hollywood Round-Up
Title: Hollywood Round-Up
Character: Grant Drexel
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Radio Patrol
Title: Radio Patrol
Character: Officer Pat O'Hara
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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Bill Cracks Down
Title: Bill Cracks Down
Character: 'Tons' Walker
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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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Lawrence 'Larry' Doyle
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Jungle Jim
Title: Jungle Jim
Character: Jim 'Jungle Jim' Bradley
Released: January 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
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The Sky Parade
Title: The Sky Parade
Character: Casey Cameron
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
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Lady Be Careful
Title: Lady Be Careful
Character: Lt. Loomis
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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The Arizona Raiders
Title: The Arizona Raiders
Character: Monroe Adams, Harriett's lawyer
Released: June 27, 1936
Type: Movie
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.
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Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Lt. Pat Tornell
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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Let's Sing Again
Title: Let's Sing Again
Character: Jim 'Diablo' Wilkins
Released: May 7, 1936
Type: Movie
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
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Three on a Limb
Title: Three on a Limb
Character: Oscar
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
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The Fighting Marines
Title: The Fighting Marines
Character: Cpl. Larry Lawrernce
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Rocky Stone
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Rip Roaring Riley
Title: Rip Roaring Riley
Character: Major Gray
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Ted Riley is ordered to investigate happenings at Diamond Island, where a bogus Major Gray is reported engaged in manufacturing a new brand of secret gas for his own purposes. Riley blows up his motor boat just off the island and is picked up by Gray's men. On the island he discovers chemist Professor Baker (John Cowell) and his daughter, Anne, are held captive by Major Gray.
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Valley of Wanted Men
Title: Valley of Wanted Men
Character: Fred
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Tod
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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Skybound
Title: Skybound
Character: Chet Morley
Released: September 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent. The smugglers hope that they can influence Kent's younger brother Doug to help them, and they employ an attractive singer in an attempt to win Doug over.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Ronald Dawson
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Character: Brule Conway
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Young Stud
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
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Storm Over the Andes
Title: Storm Over the Andes
Character: Mitchell
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
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Tailspin Tommy
Title: Tailspin Tommy
Character: Milt Howe
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airline plots to destroy it in order to get the contracts for itself.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: 'Silent' Slade
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Title: The Secrets of Wu Sin
Character: James Manning
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
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The Gambling Sex
Title: The Gambling Sex
Character: Bill Foster
Released: November 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
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Red Haired Alibi
Title: Red Haired Alibi
Character: Robert 'Bob' Shelton
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Too Young to Marry
Title: Too Young to Marry
Character: Bill Clark
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
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Other Men's Women
Title: Other Men's Women
Character: Bill White
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
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Sinners' Holiday
Title: Sinners' Holiday
Character: Angel
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
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Scarlet Pages
Title: Scarlet Pages
Character: Bob Lawrence
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Dancing Sweeties
Title: Dancing Sweeties
Character: Bill Cleaver
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Gerald
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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Soldiers and Women
Title: Soldiers and Women
Character: Capt. Clive Branch
Released: April 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
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The Second Floor Mystery
Title: The Second Floor Mystery
Character: Geoffrey West
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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The Other Tomorrow
Title: The Other Tomorrow
Character: Jon Carter
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Bruce
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Harry Miller
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
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Hearts in Exile
Title: Hearts in Exile
Character: Paul Pavloff
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
Title: The Time, the Place and the Girl
Character: Jim Crane
Released: July 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.
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Madonna of Avenue A
Title: Madonna of Avenue A
Character: Slim Shayne
Released: June 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Rims Rosson
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
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The Greyhound Limited
Title: The Greyhound Limited
Character: Bill
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.
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The Road to Ruin
Title: The Road to Ruin
Character: Don Hughes
Released: March 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
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Bringing Up Father
Title: Bringing Up Father
Character: Dennis
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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Golden Shackles
Title: Golden Shackles
Released: March 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Title: Tillie's Punctured Romance
Character: Hero
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
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Street of Forgotten Women
Title: Street of Forgotten Women
Released: May 4, 1927
Type: Movie
For those who thought "Reefer Madness" was the first exploitation movie you'll be interested to know that the genre was alive and well during the silent era. "Street of Forgotten Women" is the usual potboiler about a rich girl who is disowned by her father when she decides she wants a career in show business. After sinking her money in a stage production which immediately flops, she's forced to try and earn a living dancing in a saloon in her underwear. Even worse, she is forced into prostitution in a slum apartment that just happens to be owned by HER FATHER!!!!!
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The Final Extra
Title: The Final Extra
Character: Pat Riley
Released: February 7, 1927
Type: Movie
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-stage atmosphere of the theatre, set against the sinister shadow of a bootleg gang and the glitter of a big musical comedy "first night" in a whirlwind of dramatic action. A hot-shot newspaper reporter and a Broadway show-girl provide the romance.
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Upstream
Title: Upstream
Character: John Rogers
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
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The Gentle Cyclone
Title: The Gentle Cyclone
Character: Wilkes Junior
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.