Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe

Born: February 7, 1908
Died: April 23, 1983
in Oakland, California, USA
Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular screen serials in the 1930s and 1940s.

Movies for Buster Crabbe...

The Comeback Trail
Title: The Comeback Trail
Character: Duke Montana
Released: March 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Sketchy producers hire an ailing movie star, hoping to cash in on the insurance when he dies.
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The Alien Dead
Title: The Alien Dead
Character: Sheriff Kowalski
Released: June 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
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Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Brigadier Gordon
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: TV
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
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Swim Team
Title: Swim Team
Character: Rock Sands
Released: May 2, 1979
Type: Movie
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
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Title: B. J. and the Bear
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: TV
B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Col. Buck Rogers
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Spaceship to the Unknown
Title: Spaceship to the Unknown
Character: Flash Gordon (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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Purple Death from Outer Space
Title: Purple Death from Outer Space
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
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Destination Saturn
Title: Destination Saturn
Character: Buck Rogers
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Made-for-TV feature version of the 1940 movie serial, Buck Rogers.
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Arizona Raiders
Title: Arizona Raiders
Character: Capt. Tom Andrews
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
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The Bounty Killer
Title: The Bounty Killer
Character: Mike Clayman
Released: July 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
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Tarzan the Fearless
Title: Tarzan the Fearless
Character: Tarzan
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Re-edited, feature film version of the 1933 serial, Tarzan the Fearless, sold to television in the mid-1960's.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Gunfighters of Abilene
Title: Gunfighters of Abilene
Character: Kip
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gunman receives a request for help from his brother, but arrives too late to save him from the lawless rancher who wanted him dead.
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Badman's Country
Title: Badman's Country
Character: Wyatt Earp
Released: August 2, 1958
Type: Movie
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train and Cassidy is amassing enough men to take it.
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The Lawless Eighties
Title: The Lawless Eighties
Character: Linc Prescott
Released: May 31, 1957
Type: Movie
After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help him put a stop to Bandas's plans to start an Indian war and grab their land for himself. Meanwhile, Prescott takes a shine to the daughter of a local rancher.
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Gun Brothers
Title: Gun Brothers
Character: Chad Santee
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Recently discharged cavalry sergeant Chad Santee (Buster Crabbe) joins his brother, Jubal (Neville Brand), and discovers that Jubal is a wanted outlaw. On the way he meets Rose Fargo and rescues her from the unwanted advances of a gambler, "Blackjack". When Chad and Rose arrive they find that Jubal and his partner, Shawnee, are really rustlers and outlaws. Jubal tries to get Chad to join them but he refuses, and leaves to set up his own homestead with Rose at his side. Later, the repentant Jubal comes to join him. Shawnee, angry at what he considers a double-cross, attacks the brothers with his gang.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion
Character: Capt. Michael Gallant
Released: February 13, 1955
Type: TV
Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion was a half-hour black-and-white television series about the French Foreign Legion starring Buster Crabbe in the title role. Crabbe's real-life son Cullen Crabbe played the Legion mascot, with cowboy sidekick Fuzzy Knight playing himself as Legion comedy relief. The series premiered on NBC on 13 February 1955 and ended its first run with the 65th episode shown on 7 December 1957. It was shown for many years in syndication on American television under the title Foreign Legionnaire.
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Planet Outlaws
Title: Planet Outlaws
Character: Col. Buck Rogers
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.
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King of the Congo
Title: King of the Congo
Character: Thunda / Roger Drum
Released: April 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An Air Force captain is assigned to find some missing top-secret microfilm.
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Pirates of the High Seas
Title: Pirates of the High Seas
Character: Jeff Drake
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
For decades, pirates roamed the seas, searching for booty to plunder and coastal villages to terrorize. Who were these men and women? As you dig beneath the myth of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and other legendary warriors of the waters in this docudrama, you'll discover who they were and what motivated them to wreak havoc wherever they sailed. Includes the movie Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island.
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Captive Girl
Title: Captive Girl
Character: Barton
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Caged Fury
Title: Caged Fury
Character: Smiley
Released: March 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
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The Sea Hound
Title: The Sea Hound
Character: Capt. Silver
Released: September 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Columbia's 34th serial production starring Buster Crabbe, the Serial King himself
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Last of the Redmen
Title: Last of the Redmen
Character: Magua
Released: August 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro, her sister Cora, and her young brother Davy from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap.
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Outlaws of the Plains
Title: Outlaws of the Plains
Character: Billy Carson
Released: September 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A gang of swindlers takes advantage of simple-minded Fuzzy Jones.....
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Swamp Fire
Title: Swamp Fire
Character: Mike Kalavich
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Carol Thurston) by a rich outsider (Virginia Grey) who's nursed him back to health after a serious accident. She owns a large piece of the swamp and has outlawed hunting on her property. His rival Mike (Crabbe) is a trapper who harbors deep resentment for Johnny and his new wealthy friends. When he feels Johnny is responsible for the hunting ban, he resorts to destructive acts of vengeance.
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Overland Riders
Title: Overland Riders
Character: Billy Carson
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
A honest stranger arrives in Devil's Gap and helps the local sheriff expose the murderer of a rancher.
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Prairie Badmen
Title: Prairie Badmen
Character: Billy Carson
Released: July 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Medicine show proprietor Doc Lattimer has in his possession a map showing the location of a cache of stolen gold. His son Don favors keeping the gold rather than returning it to the express company to which it rightfully belongs, and steals the map, only to find himself menaced by outlaw leader Cal and his gang.
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Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Title: Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Character: Billy Carson
Released: June 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over the ranch, Dawson tries to get rid of him. But Billy and Fuzzy are on hand to help Henry and it's not long before they have to go into action.
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Terrors on Horseback
Title: Terrors on Horseback
Character: Billy Carson
Released: May 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up. Billy and Fuzzy quickly learn that the culprit, who not only killed all the passengers but also absconded with $40,000, may be holed up in lawless Pecos City.
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Gentlemen With Guns
Title: Gentlemen With Guns
Character: Billy Carson
Released: March 26, 1946
Type: Movie
While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then advises Matilda to marry Fuzzy so she will get the money when he is hung. But Billy breaks up the wedding and goes after the real killer.
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Lightning Raiders
Title: Lightning Raiders
Character: Billy Carson
Released: January 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A cowboy and his sidekick track mail thieves to a hide-out.
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Prairie Rustlers
Title: Prairie Rustlers
Character: Billy Carson / Jim Slade / Billy The Kid
Released: November 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.
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Fighting Bill Carson
Title: Fighting Bill Carson
Character: Billy Carson
Released: October 31, 1945
Type: Movie
Fuzzy and Billy discover a woman they rescued during a stagecoach holdup is actually a member of the holdup gang.
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Border Badmen
Title: Border Badmen
Character: Billy Carson
Released: October 10, 1945
Type: Movie
As a 32nd cousin of the recently deceased Silas Stockton, Fuzzy heads for the reading of the will. The bad guys are after the Stockton estate and plan to kidnap Helen Stockton, the primary heir, and replace her with a stooge. When the henchmen catch her she is with Billy and Fuzzy so they kidnap them also. But the three escape and Billy then heads out to find the culprits.
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Rustlers' Hideout
Title: Rustlers' Hideout
Character: Billy Carson
Released: September 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A cowboy and his sidekick fight evil guys who want to rustle cattle in order to get hold of land.
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Stagecoach Outlaws
Title: Stagecoach Outlaws
Character: Billy Carson
Released: August 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Kirby sends his henchmen to break killer Matt Brawley out of jail. But Brawley has already broken out and they return with Fuzzy instead. Realizing they think he's Brawley, Fuzzy plays the part. He and Bill plan to round up the gang but Fuzzy is in trouble when the real Brawley shows up to expose the hoax.
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Parade of Aquatic Champions
Title: Parade of Aquatic Champions
Character: Himself
Released: July 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.
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Gangster's Den
Title: Gangster's Den
Character: Billy Carson
Released: June 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Fuzzy purchases a saloon with a large sack of gold from the mine he owns with his partner Billy. When a crooked lawyer uses underhanded methods to try taking over the saloon, Billy works to bring the lawyer and his no-good gang to justice.
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Shadows of Death
Title: Shadows of Death
Character: Billy Carson
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy has been sent to help his friend Fuzzy who is the town's sheriff, judge, and barber. When the man that sent Billy is murdered and the railroad location map stolen, broken match sticks point to Vic Landreau. While Billy tries to find the missing map, Landreau suspects Billy is on to him and plans to have him killed.
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His Brother's Ghost
Title: His Brother's Ghost
Character: Billy Carson
Released: February 3, 1945
Type: Movie
When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for his friend Billy Carson to organise the sharecroppers to fight. Andy is soon mortally wounded by the gunmen, but before his death schemes for his no good twin brother Fuzzy to be sent for to impersonate him. The gunmen, witnessing Andy's funeral fear that Fuzzy is Andy's avenging ghost.
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Oath of Vengeance
Title: Oath of Vengeance
Character: Billy Carson
Released: December 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Steve Kinney and his henchman, Mort, are trying to stir up trouble between the local ranchers and farmers, behind a wave of rustling and lawlessness. Mort kills Vic, a Kirby cowhand, and lays the blame on Dan Harper, the leader of the farmers faction. Storekeeper Fuzzy Q. Jones, fearful of losing the outstanding charge-accounts he has on his books, drags his reluctant pal, Billy Carson, into the fray, and the two soon prove Kinney and his henchmen to be behind the valley's troubles.
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Wild Horse Phantom
Title: Wild Horse Phantom
Character: Billy Carson
Released: October 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A lawman stages a prison break so a gang of imprisoned robbers will lead him to their hidden loot.
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Fuzzy Settles Down
Title: Fuzzy Settles Down
Character: Billy Carson
Released: June 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Billy Carson and Fuzzy Jones have just collected a reward and Fuzzy indulges in a dream of getting away from the hectic life he has been leading and wants to settle down. They arrive in Red Rock just as the newspaper is being sold at foreclosure and, despite the attempts by Lafe Barlow to intimidate him from bidding. Fuzzy finds himself the owner of a newspaper. Fuzzy meets Edith Martin, daughter of the former owner, and unthinkingly commits himself to carrying on her father's policy of bringing a telegraph line to Red Rock. For reason of his own, Barlow is against this and has his henchmen wage a campaign of terror against the ranchers and citizens. Before long, Billy who had been lazily indifferent to everything connected to Fuzzy and his newspaper, decides to take a hand on the side of the good guys.
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The Drifter
Title: The Drifter
Character: Billy Carson / Drifter Davis
Released: June 14, 1944
Type: Movie
A Robin Hood-type outlaw rides the range and helps others. Another outlaw who looks just like him tries to cash in on the other outlaw's reputation.
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The Contender
Title: The Contender
Character: Gary Farrel
Released: May 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A truck driver turns to prizefighting with hopes of earning enough cash to send his son to military school. 1944.
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Valley Of Vengeance
Title: Valley Of Vengeance
Character: Billy Carson
Released: May 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Billy Carson arrives in King City looking for two men and kills them both. Caught by the Marshal he tells his story.
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Thundering Gun Slingers
Title: Thundering Gun Slingers
Character: Billy Carson
Released: March 25, 1944
Type: Movie
When Billy Carson's uncle is lynched as a supposed rustler, Billy arrives looking for the murderers. He finds that Steve Kirby holds a forged note on his Uncle's ranch. When Kirby sees that Billy means trouble for him, he has him framed for murder. Then just as he is inciting the mob to lynch him, Billy's new friend Doc Jones is trying to break him out of jail.
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Frontier Outlaws
Title: Frontier Outlaws
Character: Billy Carson
Released: March 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Billy Carson, looking for rustlers, kills Bradley in a gun fight. Arrested, the judge finds him innocent but jails him anyway. When the rustling resumes he is released and posing as a Mexican cattle buyer he hopes to trap the culprits.
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Nabonga
Title: Nabonga
Character: Ray Gorman
Released: January 25, 1944
Type: Movie
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
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Devil Riders
Title: Devil Riders
Character: Billy Carson
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer and his gang are trying to steal some government land meant for a stagecoach company. The company hires a cowboy to stop them.
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Blazing Frontier
Title: Blazing Frontier
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A feud develops between the settlers and the railroad detectives in Red Rock Valley. Clem Barstow sends for Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones to help.
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The Renegade
Title: The Renegade
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: August 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Town banker John Martin calls on Billy and Fuzzy for help in capturing the men that robbed his bank.
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Cattle Stampede
Title: Cattle Stampede
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: August 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed. The latter tells them there is a range war in progress across the border and that he is looking for men to help make a cattle drive to the rail junction.
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Western Cyclone
Title: Western Cyclone
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid is framed for murder.
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Fugitive of the Plains
Title: Fugitive of the Plains
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy joins an outlaw band led by woman to clear his name of their crimes, which are being blamed on him.
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The Kid Rides Again
Title: The Kid Rides Again
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
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Queen of Broadway
Title: Queen of Broadway
Character: Ricky Sloane
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this sentimental B-picture is the story of a gambler (Rochelle Hudson), who tries to clean up her act and adopt an orphan (Donald Mayo).
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pal Fuzzy escape from the Marshal and find themselves in the ghost town of Laramy. The city was abandoned because of Sykes and his gang, who are in search of a gold mine.
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Wildcat
Title: Wildcat
Character: Mike Rawlins
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
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Sheriff of Sage Valley
Title: Sheriff of Sage Valley
Character: Billy the Kid / Kansas Ed
Released: September 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Billy the Kid / Ted Morrison
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doubles.
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Jungle Siren
Title: Jungle Siren
Character: Captain Gary Hart
Released: August 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazis.
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Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Title: Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When the gang wound a rancher, the Doc finishes him off with his needle. Running from the law again, Billy and his pals arrive and take up the ranchers fight. But when Billy's pal Jeff is wounded, Fuzzy unknowningly takes him to Doc Hagan.
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Billy the Kid Trapped
Title: Billy the Kid Trapped
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
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Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Title: Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff.
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Billy the Kid Wanted
Title: Billy the Kid Wanted
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and his pal Jeff help their friend Fuzzy Jones escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise Land Development Company, ran by Matt Brawley and Jack Saunders, is somewhat less than honest in their dealings with the homesteaders. They devise a plan to cause a split between Brawley and Saunders.
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Jungle Man
Title: Jungle Man
Character: Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Junga
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Rodney (as Larry Crabbe)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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Call a Messenger
Title: Call a Messenger
Character: Chuck Walsh
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
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Colorado Sunset
Title: Colorado Sunset
Character: Dave Haines (as Larry "Buster" Crabbe)
Released: July 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.
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Million Dollar Legs
Title: Million Dollar Legs
Character: Coach Jordan (as Larry Crabbe)
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?
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Unmarried
Title: Unmarried
Character: Buzz Kinney (as Larry Crabbe)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Buck Rogers
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Mars Attacks the World
Title: Mars Attacks the World
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Character: Steve
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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Red Barry
Title: Red Barry
Character: Red Barry
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.
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Hunted Men
Title: Hunted Men
Character: James Flowers
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Tip-Off Girls
Title: Tip-Off Girls
Character: John A. 'Red' Deegan
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Title: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: March 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
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Rocket Ship
Title: Rocket Ship
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
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Daughter of Shanghai
Title: Daughter of Shanghai
Character: Andrew Sleete (as Larry Crabbe)
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Title: Thrill of a Lifetime
Character: Don
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Title: Sophie Lang Goes West
Character: Steve Clayson
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Nevada
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
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King of Gamblers
Title: King of Gamblers
Character: Eddie
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
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Murder Goes to College
Title: Murder Goes to College
Character: Strike Belno
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
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Arizona Mahoney
Title: Arizona Mahoney
Character: Kirby Talbot
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
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Rose Bowl
Title: Rose Bowl
Character: Ossie Merrill
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
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Lady Be Careful
Title: Lady Be Careful
Character: Jake
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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The Arizona Raiders
Title: The Arizona Raiders
Character: Laramie Nelson
Released: June 27, 1936
Type: Movie
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: Flash Gordon
Released: April 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Chief Moya
Released: March 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
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Drift Fence
Title: Drift Fence
Character: 'Slinger' Dunn
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula, paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise.
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Jim Lacey aka 'Nevada'
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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Starlit Days at the Lido
Title: Starlit Days at the Lido
Character: Self
Released: September 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside paying customers, and bathing beauties parading and diving. The Lido's manager, Reggy Denny, introduces the stars in the audience. He's sometimes interrupted by someone who does a bit, sings a song, or otherwise entertains: most of these are novelty acts. By the end, everyone's having a swell time.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Big Ben
Released: September 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Himself
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Hector Wilmot
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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The Oil Raider
Title: The Oil Raider
Character: Dave Warren
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
"Wildcatter" Dave Warren and his crew are trying to bring in a new oil well. Dave gives troublemaker Simmons a good thrashing and orders him off the site. In order to complete drilling Dave borrows $50,000 from investment banker J. T. Varley and also begins a romance with Varley's daughter Alice. Varley suffers market reverses and knowing that Dave is about to strike oil hires Simmons to wreck the rig so he can foreclose and take over.
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She Had to Choose
Title: She Had to Choose
Character: Bill Cutler
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
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We're Rich Again
Title: We're Rich Again
Character: Erasmus Rockwell 'Erp' Pennington (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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You're Telling Me!
Title: You're Telling Me!
Character: Bob Murchison (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.
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Badge of Honor
Title: Badge of Honor
Character: Bob Gordon
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
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Search for Beauty
Title: Search for Beauty
Character: Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Title: The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Character: Bob North
Released: October 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Bill Hayden
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
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Man of the Forest
Title: Man of the Forest
Character: Yegg
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
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Tarzan the Fearless
Title: Tarzan the Fearless
Character: Tarzan
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar, and takes Mary to his cave.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Kaspa
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Bill Hatch
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Features Chico Marx and W.C. Fields
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Football Player (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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Movie-Town
Title: Movie-Town
Character: Larry Crabbe - Champion Swimmer (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1931
Type: Movie
In this fictional film with fictional characters, Baron Gonzola (Luis Alberni)is trying to sell Mack Sennett (Mack Sennett) and William Beaudine (William Beaudine)on the idea of starring his new prodigy, Marge (Marjorie Beebe) in one of their films. Set around a swimming pool in which Sennett's bathing beauties take a back seat to diving-and-swimming champion of the time, and then moves to a nightclub set featuring George Olsen) and his orchestra.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Student
Released: August 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.