Guy Usher

Guy Usher

Born: May 8, 1883
Died: June 16, 1944
in Mason City, Iowa, USA
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Guy Usher (May 9, 1883 – June 16, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1932 and 1943.

Movies for Guy Usher...

Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Aldar
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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Planet Outlaws
Title: Planet Outlaws
Character: Aldar
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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The Avenging Rider
Title: The Avenging Rider
Character: Doc McLane
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Zack Rogers
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Pardon My Gun
Title: Pardon My Gun
Character: Jim Carter
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a rancher is ambushed, killed, and robbed, but for some reason the killers through his money pouch in the bushes without opening it. Later a woman happens upon the cash and finds herself a prime suspect in the killing. Fortunately, a survey engineer proves her innocence, and they begin looking for the real villains.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Bad Men of the Hills
Title: Bad Men of the Hills
Character: Doctor Jed Mitchell
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Captain of First Boat
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Springfield Police Chief Taylor
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Head of the Cattlemen's Association
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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Lady for a Night
Title: Lady for a Night
Character: Governor
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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West of Cimarron
Title: West of Cimarron
Character: Colonel Conway
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: District Attorney
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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The Bandit Trail
Title: The Bandit Trail
Character: Mayor Blake
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
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No Greater Sin
Title: No Greater Sin
Character: J.J. James
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.
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King of Dodge City
Title: King of Dodge City
Character: Morgan King
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Kansas, just after the Civil War. Wild Bill Hickok is summoned from Dodge City to Abilene, there to neutralize a crooked political machine. Hickok is aided every step of the way by Tex Rawlings, a seemingly harmless drifter who is appointed sheriff after proving his prowess with his six-guns.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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King of the Zombies
Title: King of the Zombies
Character: Admiral Wainwright
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
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Robbers of the Range
Title: Robbers of the Range
Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
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The Great Train Robbery
Title: The Great Train Robbery
Character: Barnsdale
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
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Ridin' on a Rainbow
Title: Ridin' on a Rainbow
Character: Sheriff Jim Mason
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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The Devil Bat
Title: The Devil Bat
Character: Henry Morton
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
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Queen of the Yukon
Title: Queen of the Yukon
Character: Stake
Released: August 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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Doomed to Die
Title: Doomed to Die
Character: Paul Fleming
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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Laughing at Danger
Title: Laughing at Danger
Character: Alvin Craig
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter. She had been shot just before she was to give Detective Dan Haggerty information about a blackmail gang. Since Mary Baker, Frankie's girl friend saw her last, she is suspected, and Frankie determines to clear her using his own sleuthing methods. He has hardy begun when Pierre, another member of the staff, and Florence's fiancée is found dead.
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Hold That Woman!
Title: Hold That Woman!
Character: Police Officer John Mulvaney
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.
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Passport to Alcatraz
Title: Passport to Alcatraz
Character: Thomas L. Lindsey - District Attorney
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Police Captain Casey
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Douglas's Crony (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Inspector
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspected of trying to get away with the gold. Actually, Maxwell and two henchmen had poured acid on the brake lines, causing the car to crash. Genevieve, daughter of the Mountie chief, suspects Maxwell and Thomas Hatch, president of the bank shipping the gold, but she quickly becomes more trouble than help to Sergeant Renfrew in charge of the investigation. Renfrew and Constable Kelly drive the next shipment but Maxwell plans to make them crash the same way as Hill did. Renfrew steers the vehicle into a hillside and this gives him an idea of what happened to the other car.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Lynch (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: Senator Andrew Hodges
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Title: Rovin' Tumbleweeds
Character: Mr. Craig - Mary's Boss
Released: November 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Rancher Autry takes a job singing on the radio to aid farmers and ranchers whose lands were destroyed by raging floods. Blaming crooked politicians, he goes to Washington and tries to put through a food control bill and finds he has a lot to learn. In this classic release, Gene introduces his immortal theme song, "Back in the Saddle Again," which has gone on to become a piece of American History.
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Title: Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Character: Police Commissioner
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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Timber Stampede
Title: Timber Stampede
Character: Jay Jones
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
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Invitation to Happiness
Title: Invitation to Happiness
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Wolf Call
Title: Wolf Call
Character: Michael Vance Sr.
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Leland Stanford (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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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Aldar
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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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Investigator
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Mr. Blair
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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Mutiny on the Body
Title: Mutiny on the Body
Character: Dr. Klubber
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Two harried businessmen, owners of a corset company, decide to go to a sanitarium for some rest and relaxation.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Inspector (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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Crashing Through Danger
Title: Crashing Through Danger
Character: Superintendent Carter
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.
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The Missing Guest
Title: The Missing Guest
Character: Police Inspector McDonald
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Warden
Released: July 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole. He realizes, however, that his movements will be limited, and he will be unable to join and wed his beloved. The only solution is to escape and hunt down the real killer, himself.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Judge Wiley (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Romance of the Limberlost
Title: Romance of the Limberlost
Character: Judge
Released: June 16, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl's existence is close to being servitude bondage, and her only companions are the birds and the animals of the forest. She meets and falls in love with a young man whose ambition is to be a lawyer. But her aunt is arranging for her to be married to the wealthiest man in the Limberlost, a drunken, coarse bully.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: John Fairbanks
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Hughes
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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Midnight Intruder
Title: Midnight Intruder
Character: Mike Kelly (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
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Little Miss Roughneck
Title: Little Miss Roughneck
Character: Police Captain Dorm
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
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Boy of the Streets
Title: Boy of the Streets
Character: Fog Horn Brennan aka Foggy
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Inspector
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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The Old Wyoming Trail
Title: The Old Wyoming Trail
Character: Lafe Kenney
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
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Boots and Saddles
Title: Boots and Saddles
Character: Colonel Allen
Released: October 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Title: Sophie Lang Goes West
Character: Police Inspector Parr
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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White Bondage
Title: White Bondage
Character: Phillips
Released: August 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Ship line official (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Michael O'Halloran
Title: Michael O'Halloran
Character: Judge H.J. Benson
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Detective Ferguson (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Once a Doctor
Title: Once a Doctor
Character: Warden
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Edward L. Wilton
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Mr. O'Rourke
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Title: Charlie Chan at the Opera
Character: Inspector Regan
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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The Case of the Black Cat
Title: The Case of the Black Cat
Character: District Attorney Hamilton Burger
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Postal Inspector
Title: Postal Inspector
Character: Evans
Released: August 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: State Department Official (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares nothing for material things.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Big Brown Eyes
Title: Big Brown Eyes
Character: Judge Davis (Uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Swiss Police Prefect Wache
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Captain Denning
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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Grand Exit
Title: Grand Exit
Character: Police Chief Roberts
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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The Spanish Cape Mystery
Title: The Spanish Cape Mystery
Character: Inspector Queen
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
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The Goose and the Gander
Title: The Goose and the Gander
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Lieutenant Adams
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Police Lieutenant Bill Kelly
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Make a Million
Title: Make a Million
Character: Corning
Released: July 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Police Lieutenant Connors
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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Justice of the Range
Title: Justice of the Range
Character: Hadley Graves
Released: May 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cattle buyer Graves is the real culprit. To throw suspicion off himself Graves hires Tim to investigate, not knowing that this will be his downfall.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Sheriff George H. Stoker
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Coach Jennings
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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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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Law Beyond the Range
Title: Law Beyond the Range
Character: Daniel Heston
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
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The Mystery Man
Title: The Mystery Man
Character: District Attorney Johnson
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St. Louis with only a buck on his person. To remedy the problem, Doyle pawns the revolver he's carrying. When the gun is subsequently used in a murder, Doyle's problems only multiply. In the meantime, he's also fallen in love with a comely stranger (Maxine Doyle) he convinced to impersonate his wife.
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Mills of the Gods
Title: Mills of the Gods
Character: Kennedy
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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Flirting with Danger
Title: Flirting with Danger
Character: James E. Fenton
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
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It's a Gift
Title: It's a Gift
Character: Harry Payne Bosterly
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Army Colonel
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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Baby Take a Bow
Title: Baby Take a Bow
Character: Detective Captain McLean (Uncredited)
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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The Hell Cat
Title: The Hell Cat
Character: Gillette
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: 2nd Detective Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Hell Bent for Love
Title: Hell Bent for Love
Character: Police Chief O'Brien
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
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Voice in the Night
Title: Voice in the Night
Character: Thomas Benton
Released: April 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
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All of Me
Title: All of Me
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Theater Owner
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: News Editor (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Doctor Schuyler (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Detective with Warrant (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: Scudder
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Clear All Wires!
Title: Clear All Wires!
Character: J. H. Stevens
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Face in the Sky
Title: Face in the Sky
Character: Albert Preston
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
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Penguin Pool Murder
Title: Penguin Pool Murder
Character: Parker
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
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Thunder Below
Title: Thunder Below
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.