Kirby Grant

Kirby Grant

Born: November 24, 1911
Died: October 30, 1985
in Butte, Montana, USA

Movies for Kirby Grant...

Yukon Vengeance
Title: Yukon Vengeance
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: January 17, 1954
Type: Movie
In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.
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Northern Patrol
Title: Northern Patrol
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: July 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists' off-and-on "Northwest Mountie" series. Taking time off from his Sky King shooting schedule, Kirby Grant stars as mounted policeman Rod Webb, while second billing is bestowed upon Webb's faithful dog Chinook. In this one, Webb tries to prove that the suicide of a young trapper was actually murder. The film offers a dash of novelty value in having the principal baddie turn out to be a beautiful woman (Marion Carr). Scripted by actor Warren Douglas, Northern Patrol was directed by Rex Bailey, the former assistant to the series' original helmsman, Frank McDonald.
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Fangs of the Arctic
Title: Fangs of the Arctic
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: January 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Yukon Gold
Title: Yukon Gold
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: August 30, 1952
Type: Movie
In this Yukon adventure, a gold mining community is rocked by a murder. A Mountie investigates and encounters a female gambler. Action ensues, but justice prevails.
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Title: Sky King
Character: Sky King
Released: April 5, 1952
Type: TV
Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
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Title: Sky King
Character: Schuyler 'Sky' King
Released: April 5, 1952
Type: TV
Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
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Northwest Territory
Title: Northwest Territory
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: December 9, 1951
Type: Movie
Wilderness adventure starring Kirby Grant and Chinook.
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Title: Comin' Round the Mountain
Character: Clark Winfield
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
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Yukon Manhunt
Title: Yukon Manhunt
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: July 12, 1951
Type: Movie
In this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and discover that it is an inside job.
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Rhythm Inn
Title: Rhythm Inn
Character: Dusty Rhodes
Released: February 11, 1951
Type: Movie
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
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Call of the Klondike
Title: Call of the Klondike
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: December 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
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The Editor’s Notebook
Title: The Editor’s Notebook
Character: Len
Released: November 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The Editor’s Notebook is a salute from one titan of Chicago media to another. A sponsored film produced by Wilding Picture Productions on behalf of the Chicago Daily News, The Editor’s Notebook mixes documentary footage, staged recreations, and interviews with the newspaper’s staff to illuminate and explain the work of the Daily News and the importance of a free press in American democracy. As both Wilding and the Daily News are long defunct, The Editor’s Notebook also provides an entertaining and accessible look at media companies whose legacies have no present-day corporate guardian or benefactor.
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Indian Territory
Title: Indian Territory
Character: Lieutenant Randy Mason
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.
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Snow Dog
Title: Snow Dog
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod McDonald
Released: July 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.
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Feudin' Rhythm
Title: Feudin' Rhythm
Character: Ace Lucky
Released: November 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Eddy Arnold, singing star of the Ace Lucky radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a television program is destroyed by a fire. Aces accepts the sponsorship of social-climber Lucille Upperworth, who tries to revamp the western/hillbilly music format to classical music.
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The Wolf Hunters
Title: The Wolf Hunters
Character: RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
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Black Midnight
Title: Black Midnight
Character: Sheriff Gilbert
Released: October 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.
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Trail of the Yukon
Title: Trail of the Yukon
Character: Bob McDonald - Royal NW Mounted
Released: July 31, 1949
Type: Movie
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
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Title: Studio One
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Singin' Spurs
Title: Singin' Spurs
Character: Jeff Carter
Released: September 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
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Hollywood Wonderland
Title: Hollywood Wonderland
Character: Highlander (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Lawless Breed
Title: Lawless Breed
Character: Ted Everett
Released: August 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Government agents Ted Everett and Tumbleweed are sent to Spearville, Texas, where the law agencies have failed to stop a series of bank robberies. Arriving incognito, they become involved with the gang, and end up being accused of murdering banker Bartlet Mellon. They escape a lynch mob and return with evidence that Mellon has faked his death, hoping to gain the insurance, and is also leading the gang under another name.
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Gunman's Code
Title: Gunman's Code
Character: Jack Douglas aka Duke Masters
Released: August 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Wells Fargo agents Jack Douglas (Kirby Grant) and Bosco O'Toole (Fuzzy Knight) are sent after a gang of stage robbers. Danny Burton (Bernard Thomas, brother of Laura Burton (Jane Adams, is implicated before Jack is able to prove that saloon owner Lee Fain (Danny Morton) is the man behind the outlaw gang.
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Rustler's Round-up
Title: Rustler's Round-up
Character: Bob Ryan
Released: August 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A cowboy sets out to break up a gang of rustlers.
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She Wrote the Book
Title: She Wrote the Book
Character: Eddie Caldwell
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Title: The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Character: Hal Wentley
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
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Blonde Alibi
Title: Blonde Alibi
Character: Henry Rothmore (Uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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Gun Town
Title: Gun Town
Character: Kip Lewis
Released: January 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Indian Agent Kip Lewis arrives in Gun Town where Buckskin Sawyer is having her payroll shipments robbed by Indians. Kip and his men are ready the next time and learn the robbers are white men dressed as Indians. Kip finds Davy Sawyer's case at the scene and confronts him. When Davy accuses Talbot whom he lent it to, Talbot shoots him. But Davy names Talbot before he dies and Kip goes after him.
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Code of the Lawless
Title: Code of the Lawless
Character: Grant Carter posing as Chad Hilton
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good landowners pay fake taxes. Not only does the good guy succeed in catching the bad guys, he also catches himself the postmistress.
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Penthouse Rhythm
Title: Penthouse Rhythm
Character: Dick Ryan
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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Bad Men of the Border
Title: Bad Men of the Border
Character: Ted Cameron
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).
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Easy to Look At
Title: Easy to Look At
Character: Tyler
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
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Trail to Vengeance
Title: Trail to Vengeance
Character: Jeff Gordon
Released: June 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
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I'll Remember April
Title: I'll Remember April
Character: Dave Ball
Released: April 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
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Babes on Swing Street
Title: Babes on Swing Street
Character: Dick Lorimer
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.
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In Society
Title: In Society
Character: Peter Evans
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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Ghost Catchers
Title: Ghost Catchers
Character: Clay Edwards
Released: June 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
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Law Men
Title: Law Men
Character: Clyde Miller
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
Title: Hi, Good Lookin'!
Character: King Castle
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
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Ditch and Live
Title: Ditch and Live
Character: Crewman of Ditching B-17
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
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The Stranger From Pecos
Title: The Stranger From Pecos
Character: Tom Barstow
Released: July 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Pilot
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Specialty Singer
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
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The Power of God
Title: The Power of God
Character: Kenneth Hale
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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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Hal Trent
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Bullet Code
Title: Bullet Code
Character: Bud Matthews
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
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Millionaire Playboy
Title: Millionaire Playboy
Character: Bill
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
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The Marines Fly High
Title: The Marines Fly High
Character: Lt. Bob Hobbes
Released: March 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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Mexican Spitfire
Title: Mexican Spitfire
Character: Airline Clerk
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
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Three Sons
Title: Three Sons
Character: Bert Pardway
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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Red River Range
Title: Red River Range
Character: Tex Reilly
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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I Dream Too Much
Title: I Dream Too Much
Character: Violinist (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.