Robert Strange

Robert Strange

Born: November 26, 1881
Died: February 22, 1952
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Robert Strange...

Flamingo Road
Title: Flamingo Road
Released: April 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Willis Newcomb
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Silver Trails
Title: Silver Trails
Character: Don Esteban
Released: August 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen Ramsay and Sturgis. Jimmy is accused of the crime by Jose Esteban but the latter's rich uncle, Don Esteban, clears his friend Jimmy. Jose accuses the the settlers, led by John Chambers, of confiscating the land of the native Californians, through murder and theft. Actually, surveyor Willard Jackson is making forged copies of stolen land-grant papers after his men have killed the rightful owners. Playing both ends against the middle, Ramsay urges Chambers and his daughter, Diane, to drive off the Californians.
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Gangs of the Waterfront
Title: Gangs of the Waterfront
Character: J. M. Meyer
Released: July 3, 1945
Type: Movie
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
Title: The Phantom of 42nd Street
Character: Soothsayer in Play (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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Crime, Inc.
Title: Crime, Inc.
Character: Grand Juror (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Mr. Lucky
Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Captain Costello (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Dead Men Walk
Title: Dead Men Walk
Character: Wilkins
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.
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Perils of Nyoka
Title: Perils of Nyoka
Character: Prof. Henry Gordon
Released: June 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, containing lost medical secrets. Also in the region is intrepid Nyoka Gordon, still seeking her father, lost on a previous expedition. She alone can translate the papyrus, which directs our heroes through deadly perils (including the Tunnel of Bubbling Death) into the land of the Tuaregs. Opposing them are Vultura, Queen of the Desert, and her Arab ally Cassib, both greedy for the treasure...
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The Mad Monster
Title: The Mad Monster
Character: Professor Blaine
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Lawyer Conway
Released: February 17, 1942
Type: Movie
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Welby
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Arizona Cyclone
Title: Arizona Cyclone
Character: Adam Draper
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....
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All That Money Can Buy
Title: All That Money Can Buy
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Bailsman (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Lou Wood
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Desert Bandit
Title: Desert Bandit
Character: Hatfield
Released: May 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
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Invisible Ghost
Title: Invisible Ghost
Character: Kirby--Coroner (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
Title: Adventures of Captain Marvel
Character: John Malcolm
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
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Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Westman's Attorney
Released: March 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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High Sierra
Title: High Sierra
Character: Art
Released: January 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Wilbur Cravens
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: Dr. Bradley (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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King of the Royal Mounted
Title: King of the Royal Mounted
Character: John Kettler
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
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Gambling on the High Seas
Title: Gambling on the High Seas
Character: Larry Brill
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Koerner
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Joe Morris
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: Whitey Trumbull
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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Angels Wash Their Faces
Title: Angels Wash Their Faces
Character: Simpkins
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: Hotel Manager / Amorous House Detective (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: First Trial Judge
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Dr. Foote
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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The Saint Strikes Back
Title: The Saint Strikes Back
Character: Police Commisioner
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Malvin
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Man at Party Meeting
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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I Stand Accused
Title: I Stand Accused
Character: Francis X. Ryan
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district attorney's office. Inevitably, they meet on opposite sides of the courtroom.
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Sky Giant
Title: Sky Giant
Character: Joe R. Weldon
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Martin's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: George Beler
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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John Meade's Woman
Title: John Meade's Woman
Character: Blaney
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
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Stolen Holiday
Title: Stolen Holiday
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Perrins
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Beware Of Ladies
Title: Beware Of Ladies
Character: John Williams
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
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Spendthrift
Title: Spendthrift
Character: Ransom
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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Trapped by Television
Title: Trapped by Television
Character: Standish
Released: June 15, 1936
Type: Movie
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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Roaming Lady
Title: Roaming Lady
Character: Kingston
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey and and her munitions-producing father, E. J. Reid and an assortment of the usual south-seas characters along with some Asians with varying agendas. The cargo included a shipment of bombs and machine guns. She soon finds herself being held hostage and they will free her only if Dan agrees to pilot a bombing plane for some Chinese bandits.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Merritt
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Title: The Leathernecks Have Landed
Character: Fred Hewitt (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
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You May Be Next!
Title: You May Be Next!
Character: Mr. Mugatroyd (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Peter Melady
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Graber
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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I Found Stella Parish
Title: I Found Stella Parish
Character: Jed Duffy
Released: November 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: Waxey Armitage
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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These Thirty Years
Title: These Thirty Years
Character: Jed Travers
Released: May 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The rise of Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company.....
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: Sydney Parker
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: District Attorney
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingston, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Title: The Smiling Lieutenant
Character: Colonel Rockoff (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.