Rod Bacon

Rod Bacon

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Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Title: Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Character: James Arnold
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.
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The Masked Marvel
Title: The Masked Marvel
Character: Jim Arnold
Released: November 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
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Corvette K-225
Title: Corvette K-225
Character: Naval Academy Graduate
Released: September 29, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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The Power of God
Title: The Power of God
Character: David Worne
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
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Ice-Capades
Title: Ice-Capades
Character: Audition Sign-Up Man
Released: August 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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The Gay Vagabond
Title: The Gay Vagabond
Character: Franklin Atwater
Released: May 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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These Glamour Girls
Title: These Glamour Girls
Character: College Boy (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
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Carnival Day
Title: Carnival Day
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Student
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.