Don Beddoe

Don Beddoe

Born: July 1, 1903
Died: January 19, 1991
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Donald T. Beddoe (July 1, 1903 – January 19, 1991) was an American character actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beddoe was the son of Dan Beddoe, a Welsh classical singer, and his wife Mary. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with bachelor's and master's degrees and taught English for three years.

After a decade of stage work and bit parts in films, Beddoe began more prominent film roles in the late 1930s. He was usually cast as fast-talking reporters and the like. His commercial acting career was put on hold when he served in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, in which he performed in the Air Force play, Winged Victory.

Beddoe subsequently returned to films playing small character roles. He occasionally appeared in comedy shorts playing comic foils, such as in the Three Stooges shorts Three Sappy People and You Nazty Spy!

Beddoe appeared in more than 250 films.

Beddoe portrayed Mr. Tolliver in the ABC comedy The Second Hundred Years, and he was in the cast of Life with Father on CBS. He also was seen in dozens of television programs. In the 1950s and 1960s, he made four appearances on Have Gun – Will Travel, three times on Lawman, three on Maverick, three on Laramie, three on Lassie, and three on Perry Mason including in the 1958 episode 'The Case of the Buried Clock'. He was also cast on the western aviation series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant, on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, The Alaskans, with Roger Moore, on the ABC adventure series, Straightaway, with Brian Kelly and John Ashley, and on the NBC western series, The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He appeared too on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, with Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and on the ABC drama series, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly. He guest starred as well on David Janssen's first series, the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. He also made appearances on episodes of The Lone Ranger in the '50s.

Beddoe played the outlaw Black Bart in the 1954 episode "Black Bart The PO8" of the western anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Black Bart is cast as a debonair poetry-writing former school teacher who turns to stagecoach robbery after his first holdup, a prank, pays handsomely. Wells Fargo detectives track him down through a laundry mark. He was also pursued with a romantic interest by his landlady, Winona Webb (Helen Brown). Black Bart spent six years in the penitentiary, never to be heard from again.

During the 1970–1971 season of ABC's Nanny and the Professor, Beddoe made four appearances, three as Mr. Thatcher. In 1984, he made his final television appearance as Kris in NBC's Highway to Heaven starring Michael Landon and Victor French.

Movies for Don Beddoe...

Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'
Title: Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 15, 2002
Type: Movie
An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing The Night of the Hunter, the seminal 1955 work considered one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Title: Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Nickel Mountain
Title: Nickel Mountain
Character: Doc Cathey
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.
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Our Town
Title: Our Town
Character: Constable Warren
Released: May 30, 1977
Type: Movie
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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How Do I Love Thee?
Title: How Do I Love Thee?
Character: Dr. Littlefield
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.
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Title: Nanny and the Professor
Character: Mr. Thatcher
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: TV
Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.
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Generation
Title: Generation
Character: Gilbert
Released: December 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
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The Impossible Years
Title: The Impossible Years
Character: Dr. Elliot Fish
Released: December 5, 1968
Type: Movie
The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
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Title: Mayberry R.F.D.
Character: G.B. Smith
Released: September 23, 1968
Type: TV
Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show. When star Andy Griffith decided to leave his series, most of the supporting characters returned for the new program, which ran for three seasons on the CBS Television Network from 1968–1971. During the final season of The Andy Griffith Show, widower farmer Sam Jones and his young son Mike are introduced and gradually become the show's focus. Sheriff Andy Taylor takes a backseat in the storylines, establishing the sequel series. The show's first episode, "Andy and Helen's Wedding", had the highest ratings in recorded television history. Sheriff Taylor and newlywed wife Helen make guest appearances on RFD until late 1969, and then relocate with Opie. Mayberry R.F.D. was popular throughout its entire run, but was canceled after its third season in CBS's infamous "rural purge" of 1971. R.F.D. stands for "Rural Free Delivery", a quaint postal depiction of the rural Mayberry community.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Title: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Character: Ragle
Released: October 17, 1967
Type: Movie
Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
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Title: Mannix
Released: September 16, 1967
Type: TV
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
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Title: CBS Playhouse
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: TV
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
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Texas Across the River
Title: Texas Across the River
Character: Mr. Naylor
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
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Title: Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: TV
Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom
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Title: The Wild Wild West
Character: Prof. Robey
Released: September 17, 1965
Type: TV
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
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Title: Laredo
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: TV
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. It is set on the Mexican border about Laredo, Texas. The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo aired on NBC's The Virginian under the title, "We've Lost a Train". It was released theatrically in 1969 under the title Backtrack. Three episodes from the first season of the series were edited into the 1968 feature film Three Guns for Texas.
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Title: F Troop
Released: September 14, 1965
Type: TV
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.
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A Very Special Favor
Title: A Very Special Favor
Character: Mr. Calvin Ruthledge (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1965
Type: Movie
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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Kilroy
Title: Kilroy
Character: Commissioner
Released: March 14, 1965
Type: Movie
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Title: Bewitched
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: TV
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Dr. Joseph Depew
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Milo
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Wealthy Chloe Brasher has three beautiful daughters; Bonnie, Kate, and Jan. Chloe pays attorney Deke Gentry to fix them up with three suitable husbands.
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Papa's Delicate Condition
Title: Papa's Delicate Condition
Character: Mayor Ghio's assistant
Released: March 6, 1963
Type: Movie
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
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Title: Going My Way
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Mr. Barmarche
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
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Title: Ensign O'Toole
Character: Admiral Hornsby
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: TV
Ensign O'Toole is a military comedy that aired on NBC from September 23, 1962, to May 5, 1963, with 31-year-old Dean Jones in the title role of a nonchalant United States Navy ensign during the early 1960s. Jones, born in 1931 in Alabama and a Navy veteran of the Korean War, played an officer aboard the fictional U.S. Navy destroyer USS Appleby, which roamed the Pacific Ocean.
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Jack the Giant Killer
Title: Jack the Giant Killer
Character: Imp
Released: May 18, 1962
Type: Movie
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.
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Saintly Sinners
Title: Saintly Sinners
Character: Father Dan Sheridan
Released: February 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Directed by Jean Yarbrough Ex-con Joseph Braden (Ron Hagerthy) has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is repossessed, it's sold to the kindly Rev. Daniel Sheridan (Don Beddoe), who immediately sets out on a fishing trip. Not knowing that his new automobile was recently used in a heist, Father Dan gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly stopped by a police officer.
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Title: Straightaway
Released: October 6, 1961
Type: TV
Straightaway is a 26-week half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired on ABC during the 1961–1962 season – the story of two young men who operate a garage and engage in auto racing. John Ashley and Brian Kelly played race car designers Clipper Hamilton and Scott Ross, respectively. Scott designs the vehicles, and Clipper is the mechanic. Asa Maynor was cast in four episodes as Dixie. Most episodes center on the clients who bring a race car to the Straightaway Garage. The series was originally planned to be named “The Racers”, but the title had to be altered because of sponsor problems. Straightaway ran at 7:30 Eastern on Fridays opposite CBS’s Rawhide with Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming. Straightaway was moved to Wednesdays effective January 10, 1962, for the remainder of its brief run.
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Boy Who Caught a Crook
Title: Boy Who Caught a Crook
Character: Colonel
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.
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Title: Cain's Hundred
Character: Clem Burgess
Released: September 19, 1961
Type: TV
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: The Tom Ewell Show
Released: September 27, 1960
Type: TV
The Tom Ewell Show is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1960-61 television season.
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Title: Pete and Gladys
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.
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Pillow Talk
Title: Pillow Talk
Character: Mr. Walters
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
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Title: The Alaskans
Released: October 4, 1959
Type: TV
The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw", "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.
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Warlock
Title: Warlock
Character: Doctor Wagner
Released: May 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Doc Simmons
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Hood
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Minister
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Lawman
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: TV
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
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Title: The Texan
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: Bronco
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Bullwhip
Title: Bullwhip
Character: Judge Carr
Released: May 25, 1958
Type: Movie
In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
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The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Title: The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Character: David Cooper
Released: May 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife.
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The Joker Is Wild
Title: The Joker Is Wild
Character: Heckler at the Copacabana (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Price
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Maverick
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: George Norris
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: Carter Farraday
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: Dr. Blane
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: Have Gun, Will Travel
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: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Lieutenant Stone
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Title: Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Character: Mayor Sam Pelley
Released: May 4, 1957
Type: Movie
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
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Title: The O. Henry Playhouse
Character: Maximillian Jones
Released: January 23, 1957
Type: TV
Anthology series based on the short stories of O. Henry.
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Title: Wire Service
Character: Raisner
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: TV
Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.
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Title: Hey, Jeannie!
Character: Hornblower
Released: September 8, 1956
Type: TV
Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
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Behind the High Wall
Title: Behind the High Wall
Character: Todd 'Mac' MacGregor
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
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The Rawhide Years
Title: The Rawhide Years
Character: Frank Porter
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.
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The Killer is Loose
Title: The Killer is Loose
Character: Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Burt
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Cheyenne
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: Halligan
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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The Night of the Hunter
Title: The Night of the Hunter
Character: Walt Spoon
Released: August 26, 1955
Type: Movie
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Title: Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Character: Johnson
Released: February 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Dan Larsen
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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The Steel Cage
Title: The Steel Cage
Character: Prison Board Member Alan Ferness, segment "The Hostages"
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Studio Executive at Premiere (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Title: Lassie
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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Jubilee Trail
Title: Jubilee Trail
Character: Maury - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.
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River of No Return
Title: River of No Return
Character: Ben (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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Loophole
Title: Loophole
Character: Herman Tate
Released: March 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
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Wyoming Renegades
Title: Wyoming Renegades
Character: Banker Horace Warren
Released: March 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Brady Sutton returns from three years in prison and tries to go straight. One a member of the Butch Cassidy gang, he is still suspected of being cahoots with them. When Cassidy and his men rob the bank, he is blamed. Escaping from the townspeople, he once again joins up with Cassidy to wait for a chance to help bring him in.
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Title: Public Defender
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Uncle Charles
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Bill Holmes
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Nicholas Barton
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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The Band Wagon
Title: The Band Wagon
Character: Producer (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1953
Type: Movie
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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Cow Country
Title: Cow Country
Character: Joe Davis
Released: April 25, 1953
Type: Movie
A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
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The System
Title: The System
Character: Jerry Allen
Released: April 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Dr. Harvey
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Ticket Agent
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Clown
Title: The Clown
Character: Gallagher
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie, Dodo's agent in the good old days, to find a booking for Dodo. He can't, and Dink is sent to live with his remarried-and-wealthy mother, Paula. The unhappy Dink runs back to his father. His welcome return gives Dodo the courage needed to try a knockabout TV show offered by Goldie
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Stop, You're Killing Me
Title: Stop, You're Killing Me
Character: Clyde Post
Released: December 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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Blue Canadian Rockies
Title: Blue Canadian Rockies
Character: Cyrus Higbee
Released: November 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Montana ranch owner Cyrus Bigbee sends his foreman, Gene Autry, and Rawhide Buttram to his Canadian timber land to stop the marriage of his daughter Sandy to Todd Markey, whom he dislikes. Sandy wants to turn the property into a dude ranch, with Carolina Cotton and the Cass County Boys (Fred S. Martin, Jerry Scoggins and Bert Dodson) among the entertainers, and runs up against local timbermen who want it for cutting timber. When a Mountie is murdered, with suspicion pointing to Todd, Gene finds the real culprit and brings peace to the area.
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The Iron Mistress
Title: The Iron Mistress
Character: Dr. Cuny
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Vickers
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: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Thompson
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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Don't Bother to Knock
Title: Don't Bother to Knock
Character: Mr. Ballew
Released: July 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Mr. Goodman
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Carson City
Title: Carson City
Character: Charles Crocker
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
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The Narrow Margin
Title: The Narrow Margin
Character: Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
Released: May 3, 1952
Type: Movie
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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Hoodlum Empire
Title: Hoodlum Empire
Character: Sen. Blake
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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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
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Room for One More
Title: Room for One More
Character: Mr. Taylor (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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Man in the Saddle
Title: Man in the Saddle
Character: Love Bidwell (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
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The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Character: Ed--Fingerprint Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Mitchell (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Behave Yourself!
Title: Behave Yourself!
Character: Sgt. O'Neill (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
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Corky of Gasoline Alley
Title: Corky of Gasoline Alley
Character: Walt Wallet
Released: September 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
Title: Rodeo King and the Senorita
Character: Mr. Richards
Released: July 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
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The Bogus Green
Title: The Bogus Green
Character: Alonzo
Released: July 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop. Returning to the circus, he learns that the Treasury Department suspects someone in the circus is responsible for the bogus dough appearing wherever the circus visits and suspicion falls on the show's newest employees. Meanwhile the alcoholic sideshow barker falls off the wagon when his beautiful daughter returns unexpectedly.
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Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Bowen
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
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The Enforcer
Title: The Enforcer
Character: Thomas O'Hara
Released: February 24, 1951
Type: Movie
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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The Company She Keeps
Title: The Company She Keeps
Character: Detective Jamieson
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: Walt Wallet
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Blades of the Musketeers
Title: Blades of the Musketeers
Character: King Louis XIII
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: The Meddler
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
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Emergency Wedding
Title: Emergency Wedding
Character: Forbish - Floorwalker
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Paul
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: Judge
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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Beyond the Purple Hills
Title: Beyond the Purple Hills
Character: Amos Rayburn
Released: July 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.
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Caged
Title: Caged
Character: Commissioner Sam Walker (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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Young Daniel Boone
Title: Young Daniel Boone
Character: Charlie Bryan
Released: March 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre.
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The Great Rupert
Title: The Great Rupert
Character: Mr. Haggerty (as Donald T. Beddoe)
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
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Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Character: Curtis Jellison
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
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Gun Crazy
Title: Gun Crazy
Character: Chicago Man (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
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Woman in Hiding
Title: Woman in Hiding
Character: Fat Salesman
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Barney Bassett
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Jaeger
Released: October 8, 1949
Type: Movie
A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
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Flame of Youth
Title: Flame of Youth
Character: George Briggs
Released: September 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.
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Once More, My Darling
Title: Once More, My Darling
Character: Judge Fraser
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Mr. Dennis Sutherland
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Bride of Vengeance
Title: Bride of Vengeance
Character: Councillor
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Crime Doctor's Diary
Title: The Crime Doctor's Diary
Character: Phillip Bellem
Released: March 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
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Hideout
Title: Hideout
Character: Dr. Hamilton Gibbs
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.
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Another Part of the Forest
Title: Another Part of the Forest
Character: Penniman
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Black Bart
Title: Black Bart
Character: J.T. Hall
Released: February 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Editor (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Character: Joey
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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They Won't Believe Me
Title: They Won't Believe Me
Character: Thomason
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Mort Elkins
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
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Blaze of Noon
Title: Blaze of Noon
Character: Mr. Fell
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
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Buck Privates Come Home
Title: Buck Privates Come Home
Character: Mr. Roberts (State Department)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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California
Title: California
Character: Stark (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1947
Type: Movie
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Mr. Cameron
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Jack Collins (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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O.S.S.
Title: O.S.S.
Character: Rodney "Gates" Parrish / Raoul Josse
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
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The Well Groomed Bride
Title: The Well Groomed Bride
Character: Mr. Beatley
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
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Behind Green Lights
Title: Behind Green Lights
Character: Yager
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
Title: The Notorious Lone Wolf
Character: Stonley
Released: February 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Clancy
Released: November 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe in his bachelor days. McDonald intends to show the garter to O'Keefe's suspicious wife, so Our Hero must retrieve the embarrassing accouterment without tipping off the missus.
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Midnight Manhunt
Title: Midnight Manhunt
Character: Detective Lieutenant Max Hurley
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Crime, Inc.
Title: Crime, Inc.
Character: Deputy District Attorney Dixon
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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Winged Victory
Title: Winged Victory
Character: Chaplain on Beach (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: Pringle (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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Junior Army
Title: Junior Army
Character: Saginaw Jake
Released: November 26, 1942
Type: Movie
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
Title: The Boogie Man Will Get You
Character: J. Gilbert Brampton
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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Smith of Minnesota
Title: Smith of Minnesota
Character: Lew Smith
Released: October 15, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic takes an in-depth look into the life of Minnesota All-American football player Bruce Smith. The story is framed by a screenwriter's interview with the famed halfback. In order to garner information, the scenarist is assigned to live with Smith. During the film, Smith shares his thoughts on football and anecdotes from his life.
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Lucky Legs
Title: Lucky Legs
Character: Ned McLane
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: Police Inspector Hanley
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Police Chief
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Not a Ladies' Man
Title: Not a Ladies' Man
Character: 'Professor Bigfoot' Johnson
Released: May 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Hill
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Harvard Here I Come
Title: Harvard Here I Come
Character: Hypo McGonigle
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delighted by the "honor", and promptly tries to enroll at the ivy-league university. Upon arriving on campus, he is pounced upon by a group of eccentric scientists led by Professor Alvin, who is convinced that Rosenbloom is the "missing link" that science has long been searching for.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Bennie Blanchard
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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Sing for Your Supper
Title: Sing for Your Supper
Character: Wing Boley
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
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Unholy Partners
Title: Unholy Partners
Character: Mike Reynolds
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
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The Blonde from Singapore
Title: The Blonde from Singapore
Character: Sgt. Burns
Released: October 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Title: Two Latins from Manhattan
Character: Don Barlow
Released: October 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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Sweetheart of the Campus
Title: Sweetheart of the Campus
Character: Sheriff Denby
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.
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They Dare Not Love
Title: They Dare Not Love
Character: Second Sailor
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
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She Knew All the Answers
Title: She Knew All the Answers
Character: Barber
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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The Big Boss
Title: The Big Boss
Character: Cliff Randall
Released: April 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Why did the Governor want to resign?
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Under Age
Title: Under Age
Character: Albert Ward
Released: April 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
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Black Eyes and Blues
Title: Black Eyes and Blues
Character: Phineas Q. Potts
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Title: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Character: Sheriff Haggerty
Released: March 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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The Face Behind the Mask
Title: The Face Behind the Mask
Character: Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
Released: January 16, 1941
Type: Movie
In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Tom Howland
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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The Phantom Submarine
Title: The Phantom Submarine
Character: Bartlett
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.
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Beyond the Sacramento
Title: Beyond the Sacramento
Character: Warden McKay
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Big Joe Brady
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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West of Abilene
Title: West of Abilene
Character: Forsyth
Released: October 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
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So You Won't Talk?
Title: So You Won't Talk?
Character: Cop
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: Frank Regan
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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The Spook Speaks
Title: The Spook Speaks
Character: Newlywed husband
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Capt. McGraw
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Process Server
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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The Secret Seven
Title: The Secret Seven
Character: Maj. Blaine
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
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Military Academy
Title: Military Academy
Character: Marty Lewis
Released: August 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Manhattan Heartbeat
Title: Manhattan Heartbeat
Character: Preston
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Character: Police Doctor
Released: May 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Tug Wilson
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Warden Schafer
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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Escape to Glory
Title: Escape to Glory
Character: Ship's Chief Engineer Anderson
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
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Island of Doomed Men
Title: Island of Doomed Men
Character: Brand
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Title: Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Character: Frederick Ross
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Governor Dawson
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Morning Express Reporter
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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Blondie on a Budget
Title: Blondie on a Budget
Character: Marvin Williams
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Green Sox Manager
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Hank, a Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Title: The Lone Wolf Strikes
Character: Inspector Conroy
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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You Nazty Spy!
Title: You Nazty Spy!
Character: Mr. Amscray (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Customer
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Frank Raymond
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Feature version of the American serial film, produced for export only, never exhibited in the USA, and believed to be a lost film.
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My Son is Guilty
Title: My Son is Guilty
Character: Duke Mason
Released: December 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.
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The Awful Goof
Title: The Awful Goof
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
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Three Sappy People
Title: Three Sappy People
Character: Rumsford
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Detective Deever
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Beware Spooks!
Title: Beware Spooks!
Character: Nick Bruno
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Chick Keller
Released: October 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
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Those High Grey Walls
Title: Those High Grey Walls
Character: Jockey
Released: September 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Golden Boy
Title: Golden Boy
Character: Borneo
Released: September 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to by a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Konga, the Wild Stallion
Title: Konga, the Wild Stallion
Character: Fred Martin
Released: August 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Title: The Man They Could Not Hang
Character: Lieutenant Shane
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Attorney Thomas Jamison (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Missing Daughters
Title: Missing Daughters
Character: Al Farrow
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Frank Raymond
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Dinky
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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Romance of the Redwoods
Title: Romance of the Redwoods
Character: Forbes
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Title: Blondie Meets the Boss
Character: Marvin Williams
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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Flying G-Men
Title: Flying G-Men
Character: W. S. Hamilton
Released: January 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Police Inspector Thomas
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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There's That Woman Again
Title: There's That Woman Again
Character: Johnson
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.