James Flavin

James Flavin

Born: May 14, 1906
Died: April 23, 1976
in Portland, Maine, USA
American character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century. James Wilson Flavin Jr. was the son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English extraction and a mother, Katherine, whose father was an Irish immigrant. (Thus Flavin, well-known in Hollywood as an "Irish" type, was only one-quarter Irish.) Flavin was born and raised in Portland, Maine (a fact that may have enrichened his later working relationship with director John Ford, also a Portland native). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but (contrary to some sources) did not graduate. Instead he dropped out and returned to Portland where he drove a taxi. Then as now, summer stock companies flocked to Maine each year, and in 1929 he was asked to fill in for an actor. He did well with the part and the company manager offered him $150 per week to go with the troupe back to New York. Flavin accepted and by the spring of 1930 was living in a rooming house at 108 W. 87th Street in Manhattan. Flavin didn't manage to crack Broadway at this time (his Broadway debut would not occur for another thirty-nine years, in the 1971 revival of "The Front Page," in which Flavin played Murphy and briefly took over the lead role of Walter Burns from star Robert Ryan). He worked his way across the country in stock productions and tours, arriving in Los Angeles around 1932. He quickly made the transition to movies, landing the lead in his very first film, a Universal serial, The Airmail Mystery (1932). He also landed his leading lady, marrying the serial's female star Lucile Browne that same year. However, the serial marked virtually the last time that Flavin would play the lead in a film. Thereafter, he was restricted almost exclusively to supporting characters, many of them without so much as a name. He specialized in uniformed cops and hard-bitten detectives, but played chauffeurs, cabbies, and even a 16th-century palace guard with aplomb. Flavin appeared in nearly four hundred films between 1932 and 1971, and in almost a hundred television episodes before his final appearance, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976). Flavin died of a heart ailment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 23, 1976. His widow Lucile died seventeen days later. They were survived by their son, William James Flavin, subsequently a professor at the United States Army War College. James and Lucile Brown Flavin were buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Movies for James Flavin...

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Title: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Character: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Capt. Toomey
Released: May 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
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Title: The Brady Bunch
Released: September 26, 1969
Type: TV
When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their six children, a dog named Tiger, and quirky housekeeper Alice.
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In Cold Blood
Title: In Cold Blood
Character: Clarence Duntz
Released: December 15, 1967
Type: Movie
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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Good Times
Title: Good Times
Character: Detective Lieutenant
Released: April 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Sonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.
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Title: The Pruitts of Southampton
Released: September 6, 1966
Type: TV
The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's futile attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the style of Lucille Ball. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. The premise was that the Pruitts, a supposedly incredibly wealthy family living on Long Island in the Hamptons, were approached by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes. An audit revealed that the Pruitts were in fact broke; rather than reveal this fact publicly and cause the economic depression which would presumably result from this revelation, an improbably charitable IRS allowed them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth, which was difficult given their reduced circumstances. By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a "nutty" collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.
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The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Title: The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Character: Lt. Flynn
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a sting, but they catch on and the reporter and Gallegher have to subdue them in order to escape and write their article.
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Cheyenne Autumn
Title: Cheyenne Autumn
Character: Ft. Robinson Sergeant of the Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Lt. Poston
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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Title: Mr. Novak
Character: Fire Chief Hawkins
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Officer Danny Robin
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Lucy Show
Character: Sergeant Wilcox
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: Sam Benedict
Released: September 15, 1962
Type: TV
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.
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Title: The New Breed
Character: Moose
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
The New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June 5, 1962, with thirty-six episodes.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: John Dolan
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Cain's Hundred
Character: Arnie Kellwin
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: Mister Ed
Released: January 5, 1961
Type: TV
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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Title: The Roaring 20's
Released: October 15, 1960
Type: TV
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
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Title: Surfside 6
Released: October 6, 1960
Type: TV
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
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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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Title: Coronado 9
Released: September 6, 1960
Type: TV
Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
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Title: Johnny Midnight
Released: January 3, 1960
Type: TV
Johnny Midnight is an American crime drama that aired for one season in syndicated from January to December 1960. The series stars Edmond O'Brien as the title character.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: 1962 Policeman
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Truck Driver
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: Police Capt. Michael J. Shanahan (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Johnny Rocco
Title: Johnny Rocco
Character: Mooney
Released: December 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Gangster and police look for a gangster's son who witnessed a murder.
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Title: Man with a Camera
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton. Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Wild Is the Wind
Title: Wild Is the Wind
Character: Wool Buyer
Released: December 11, 1957
Type: Movie
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Gavin Marshall
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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Night Passage
Title: Night Passage
Character: Tim Riley
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Sam Cooper
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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The Restless Breed
Title: The Restless Breed
Character: Secret Service Chief
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
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Footsteps in the Night
Title: Footsteps in the Night
Character: Mr. Bradbury
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Hold That Hypnotist
Title: Hold That Hypnotist
Character: Jake Morgan
Released: February 24, 1957
Type: Movie
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
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Title: State Trooper
Released: September 25, 1956
Type: TV
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
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Francis in the Haunted House
Title: Francis in the Haunted House
Character: Police Chief Martin
Released: July 9, 1956
Type: Movie
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Timmy
Released: March 10, 1956
Type: Movie
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Tony - The Doorman
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Dan
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Joe Felix
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Navy Log
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955, but the following year, it was moved to ABC, where it aired until September 25, 1958. The program aired for a total of three seasons and 102 episodes.
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Apache Ambush
Title: Apache Ambush
Character: Col. Marshall
Released: August 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
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The Naked Street
Title: The Naked Street
Character: Attorney Michael X. Flanders
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
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Mister Roberts
Title: Mister Roberts
Character: Military Policeman
Released: July 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Dan Mulcahy
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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Title: Climax!
Character: Hogan
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: December Bride
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: TV
December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.
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Massacre Canyon
Title: Massacre Canyon
Character: Col. Tarant
Released: May 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
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Dragonfly Squadron
Title: Dragonfly Squadron
Character: Doctor
Released: March 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
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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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The Eddie Cantor Story
Title: The Eddie Cantor Story
Character: Kelly
Released: December 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
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Hot News
Title: Hot News
Character: Al Bragg
Released: October 11, 1953
Type: Movie
An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Deputy Mason
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: Sgt. Danny Doofle
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: MacNamara
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: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Title: Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Character: First Policeman in Bank
Released: April 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
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Trouble Along the Way
Title: Trouble Along the Way
Character: Coach Buck Holman
Released: April 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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I Beheld His Glory
Title: I Beheld His Glory
Character: Longinus
Released: March 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.
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Confidentially Connie
Title: Confidentially Connie
Character: Harry (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
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Title: General Electric Theater
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: Callahan
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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Star of Texas
Title: Star of Texas
Character: Texas Rangers Capt. Sturdivant
Released: January 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
Title: Million Dollar Mermaid
Character: Conductor
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Death Valley Days
Character: Perry
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mr. Swanson
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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O. Henry's Full House
Title: O. Henry's Full House
Character: Cop (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Mike - Bartender (uncredited)
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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Here Come the Marines
Title: Here Come the Marines
Character: Lieutenant-Colonel at End
Released: June 29, 1952
Type: Movie
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Petty Officer (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Captain Kimble
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: General Charles Lee
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: I Love Lucy
Character: Immigration Officer
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: TV
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Rhubarb
Title: Rhubarb
Character: O'Leary, Manhattan Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Fighting Coast Guard
Title: Fighting Coast Guard
Character: Commander Rogers
Released: May 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
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Follow the Sun
Title: Follow the Sun
Character: Henry Gibbs
Released: May 22, 1951
Type: Movie
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Title: According to Mrs. Hoyle
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: May 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
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Oh! Susanna
Title: Oh! Susanna
Character: Capt. Worth
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
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Operation Pacific
Title: Operation Pacific
Character: SP Commander
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
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Title: The Living Christ
Character: Longinus
Released: January 7, 1951
Type: TV
The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Steve
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: Heineman
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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South Sea Sinner
Title: South Sea Sinner
Character: Andrews
Released: August 30, 1950
Type: Movie
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous, bedroom-eyed saloon singer Coral is about to be ejected because "men like her too much." But Coral's slimy boss Cognac gets her a reprieve so she can learn Jake's secret.
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Destination Murder
Title: Destination Murder
Character: Police Lt. Brewster
Released: June 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.
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Armored Car Robbery
Title: Armored Car Robbery
Character: Lt. Phillips
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.
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The Savage Horde
Title: The Savage Horde
Character: Guard
Released: May 22, 1950
Type: Movie
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle baron.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Railroad Workman
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Dakota Lil
Title: Dakota Lil
Character: Secret Service Chief
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Gen. Brevort (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Prison Warden
Title: Prison Warden
Character: Guard Capt. Peter Butler
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
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The Devil's Henchman
Title: The Devil's Henchman
Character: Police Sergeant Briggs
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves, supposedly headed by Tip Banning. Arno is aware that a gang member has been murdered by Rhino, Banning's simple-minded right-hand man, but says nothing when he is questioned by the police, who are unaware of his real profession. Banning, knowing that Jesse knew who the killer was, admits him into the gang.
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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Title: Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Character: Brophy
Released: September 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Character: Insp. Wellman
Released: August 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Schultz
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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Mississippi Rhythm
Title: Mississippi Rhythm
Character: Stan Caldwell
Released: May 28, 1949
Type: Movie
On board a riverboat bound for Creek City, singer Jimmie Davis, who is going to become half-owner of a land development company willed to him by his uncle, shares a cabin with traveling salesman Dixie Dalrymple. After Dixie invites Jimmie to perform in a concert he is putting on for the other passengers, Jimmie is persuaded to participate in a crooked card game run by Judge Homer Kenworthy and his associates. However, with Dixie's intervention, Jimmie wins handsomely, then accuses the gamblers of trying to cheat him.
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Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: Det. Lt. Boylan
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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Shockproof
Title: Shockproof
Character: Policeman in Park (Uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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Bungalow 13
Title: Bungalow 13
Character: Lt. Sam Wilson
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate when the police succeed in killing all of the suspects.
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The Plunderers
Title: The Plunderers
Character: Sergeant Major
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum to infiltrate a gang of highway robbers.
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One Touch of Venus
Title: One Touch of Venus
Character: Kerrigan
Released: August 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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The Velvet Touch
Title: The Velvet Touch
Character: Sgt. Oliphant
Released: July 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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Secret Service Investigator
Title: Secret Service Investigator
Character: Police Inspector Thorndyke
Released: May 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.
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The Noose Hangs High
Title: The Noose Hangs High
Character: Traffic Cop (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
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Sleep, My Love
Title: Sleep, My Love
Character: Lieutenant Mitchell
Released: February 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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Nightmare Alley
Title: Nightmare Alley
Character: Hoatley - First Carnival Owner (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Title: Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Character: Policeman
Released: September 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
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Song of the Thin Man
Title: Song of the Thin Man
Character: Policeman Reardon (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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Desert Fury
Title: Desert Fury
Character: Pat Johnson
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Title: Robin Hood Of Texas
Character: Captain Danforth
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Police Sergeant Patella
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Title: It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Character: First Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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My Favorite Brunette
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Character: Det. Lt. 'Mac' Hennessey (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Nora Prentiss
Title: Nora Prentiss
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
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Nobody Lives Forever
Title: Nobody Lives Forever
Character: Shake Thomas
Released: November 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
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Cloak and Dagger
Title: Cloak and Dagger
Character: Col. Walsh
Released: September 28, 1946
Type: Movie
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
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Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Bellamy
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Step by Step
Title: Step by Step
Character: Woods
Released: August 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Title: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Character: Police Detective #1
Released: August 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
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The Missing Lady
Title: The Missing Lady
Character: Police Insp. Cardona
Released: August 17, 1946
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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Easy to Wed
Title: Easy to Wed
Character: Joe
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.
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Rendezvous with Annie
Title: Rendezvous with Annie
Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Boys' Ranch
Title: Boys' Ranch
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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A Stolen Life
Title: A Stolen Life
Character: Investigator (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
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Sentimental Journey
Title: Sentimental Journey
Character: Detective Sgt. McFarland (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1946
Type: Movie
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Subway Conductor (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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Tars and Spars
Title: Tars and Spars
Character: Chief Bosun Mate Gurney
Released: January 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Officer Johnny Tracy
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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The Shanghai Cobra
Title: The Shanghai Cobra
Character: H.R. Jarvis
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Radio Cop
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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Over 21
Title: Over 21
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
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Murder, He Says
Title: Murder, He Says
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Guard
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Title: God Is My Co-Pilot
Character: Major at Kweilin Airbase (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Marine Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Det. McEveety (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Bank Security Guard (Uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Abroad with Two Yanks
Title: Abroad with Two Yanks
Character: Sgt. Wiggins
Released: August 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Policeman
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Once Upon a Time
Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Man in Subway (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1944
Type: Movie
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the day. Inside a small box the boy shows Flynn his pride and joy: a caterpillar named Curly that dances to Yes Sir, That's My Baby. Word quickly spreads about the amazingly talented hoofer, and the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for wartime America. Soon, offers are pouring in to capitalize on this sensational insect.
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Uncertain Glory
Title: Uncertain Glory
Character: Captain of Mobile Guard
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Train Conductor
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: 1st Lt. Bill Gardner
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Murder on the Waterfront
Title: Murder on the Waterfront
Character: Cmdr. Kalin
Released: September 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Captain O'Brien (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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I Dood It
Title: I Dood It
Character: Federal Agent (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry after she breaks up with her fiancé. Connie thinks Joseph owns a gold mine, but he actually works as a presser at a hotel valet shop. When everyone learns what he really is, Joseph is banned from the theater. When he sneaks in again, he learns of a plot to set off a bomb in the adjoining munitions warehouse.
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Merchant Marine School Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: American Senator (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Maj. A.M. Bagley
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Something to Shout About
Title: Something to Shout About
Character: Policeman
Released: February 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Character: Policeman
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: George Corbett (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Night in New Orleans
Title: Night in New Orleans
Character: Egan (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Capt. Luddy
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Thomas
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Process Server
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Police Lieutenant Schaeffer
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Kid Glove Killer
Title: Kid Glove Killer
Character: Keenan - Detective Grilling Eddie (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Reap the Wild Wind
Title: Reap the Wild Wind
Character: Girl's Father (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Railroad Detective #2 (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Treat 'Em Rough
Title: Treat 'Em Rough
Character: Joe Trosper
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.
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A Yank on the Burma Road
Title: A Yank on the Burma Road
Character: Police Dispatcher
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
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Bedtime Story
Title: Bedtime Story
Character: Hotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
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Kathleen
Title: Kathleen
Character: Moving Man
Released: December 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
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The Night of January 16th
Title: The Night of January 16th
Character: Policeman Kelly
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
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I Wake Up Screaming
Title: I Wake Up Screaming
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Abilene Fight Announcer
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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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Immigration Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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We Go Fast
Title: We Go Fast
Character: Police Lt. Bardette
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Orderly About to Give Bath (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Affectionately Yours
Title: Affectionately Yours
Character: Tomassetti
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Buck (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Ride on Vaquero
Title: Ride on Vaquero
Character: Officer Johnson
Released: April 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Sheriff Bud Connolly
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Sheriff Bud Connolly (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Deputy Sheriff
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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The Wild Man of Borneo
Title: The Wild Man of Borneo
Character: Policeman
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Demolition Man (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: Army Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Youth Will Be Served
Title: Youth Will Be Served
Character: Buck Miller
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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The Long Voyage Home
Title: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Dock Policeman
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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The Devil's Pipeline
Title: The Devil's Pipeline
Character: Dowling
Released: October 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Mountie
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Army Assistant Coach (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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The Great Profile
Title: The Great Profile
Character: Detective
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
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Rhythm on the River
Title: Rhythm on the River
Character: Detective
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Annabella's Brother
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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South of Pago Pago
Title: South of Pago Pago
Character: Cafe Customer
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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Manhattan Heartbeat
Title: Manhattan Heartbeat
Character: Truck Driver
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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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Policeman
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Ranch Foreman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Third FBI Director
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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The Ghost Breakers
Title: The Ghost Breakers
Character: Hotel Porter (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Parking Attendant at Fat Dutchy's (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Policeman
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Grogin
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Det. Carvin
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Hot Steel
Title: Hot Steel
Character: Storm Swenson
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Prison Guard In Library (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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It All Came True
Title: It All Came True
Character: Roaring 90's Club Doorman (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1940
Type: Movie
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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And One Was Beautiful
Title: And One Was Beautiful
Character: McRafferty
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Guard
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: Patrolman Johnson
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Clancy (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Supply Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Remember the Night
Title: Remember the Night
Character: Court Attendant (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: Sergeant
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Policeman
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Policeman Guarding Entrance (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Fluger
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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They All Come Out
Title: They All Come Out
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Police Sgt. Jerry
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Sanders
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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Tell No Tales
Title: Tell No Tales
Character: Officer Simmons (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Turnkey
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Paddy (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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Big Town Czar
Title: Big Town Czar
Character: George Mitchell
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
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Code of the Streets
Title: Code of the Streets
Character: Doorman
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Police Interrogator
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Police Announcer (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Doorman (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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The Duke of West Point
Title: The Duke of West Point
Character: Plebe Hockey Coach
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: 2nd Cop
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
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Convicts at Large
Title: Convicts at Large
Character: Detective Sgt. Berkovich
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An innocent man is bamboozled into trading places with a dangerous escaped convict.
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Blondie
Title: Blondie
Character: Policeman in Accident Car (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Justice Department Agent
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Title: Three Loves Has Nancy
Character: Jack's Friend (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: George - Witness (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Guard
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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Wives Under Suspicion
Title: Wives Under Suspicion
Character: Jenks - Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Army Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Test Pilot
Title: Test Pilot
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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Miracle Money
Title: Miracle Money
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Gas Station Attendant
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Night Spot
Title: Night Spot
Character: Kidnapper
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Striker (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Burly Man (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Everybody's Doing It
Title: Everybody's Doing It
Character: Detective Hayes
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: State Trooper
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Live, Love and Learn
Title: Live, Love and Learn
Character: Marine Who Likes Painting (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Driver
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Dr. Spitzy Calahan (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Girls Can Play
Title: Girls Can Play
Character: Det. Bill O'Malley
Released: June 23, 1937
Type: Movie
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
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Angel's Holiday
Title: Angel's Holiday
Character: Detective
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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I Promise to Pay
Title: I Promise to Pay
Character: Bill Seaver
Released: April 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Detective McCormick
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: State Trooper (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Dangerous Number
Title: Dangerous Number
Character: Cab Driver
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Policeman
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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My Man Godfrey
Title: My Man Godfrey
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Character: Detective
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
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How to Behave
Title: How to Behave
Character: Man in Manhole (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Ed
Released: November 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: 2st Military Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: Agent Arresting Julie (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Title: Man on the Flying Trapeze
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Mac - Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Informant on Telephone
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Policeman at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Detective
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Flavin - Federal Agent (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Agent with Jean (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Captain Hurricane
Title: Captain Hurricane
Character: Freighter Officer
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
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Secrets of Chinatown
Title: Secrets of Chinatown
Character: Brandhma
Released: February 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.
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The Brand of Hate
Title: The Brand of Hate
Character: Holt Larkins
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.
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The Affairs of Cellini
Title: The Affairs of Cellini
Character: Palace Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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Baby Take a Bow
Title: Baby Take a Bow
Character: Flannigan
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
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Wild Gold
Title: Wild Gold
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
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The Big Race
Title: The Big Race
Character: Bill Figg
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Wilcox
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Billy (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Ship of Wanted Men
Title: Ship of Wanted Men
Character: Frank Busch
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Det. Mack McCue
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
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Hello, Sister!
Title: Hello, Sister!
Character: Fireman
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
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King Kong
Title: King Kong
Character: Mate Briggs
Released: March 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Don Lindsay
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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The Most Dangerous Game
Title: The Most Dangerous Game
Character: First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
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Okay, America!
Title: Okay, America!
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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McKenna of the Mounted
Title: McKenna of the Mounted
Character: Corporal Randall McKenna
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
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Back Street
Title: Back Street
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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The Airmail Mystery
Title: The Airmail Mystery
Character: Bob Lee
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.